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Without a Clear Vision

By on February 21, 2012 in Culture & Leadership

Vision is crucial. It is utterly irreplaceable. No amount of execution or financial success can replace vision. Why? Because, vision can lead the creative work of an entire tribe. (Not just of a few people who think about it all the time, but for everyone.) Vision is the art of seeing things invisible, Jonathan Swift [...]

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Rules for The Social Era

By on February 15, 2012 in Market Power, Social

I mentioned in a prior post that I would soon update what has been keeping me heads-down. For months now, my Harvard editor and I have been planning on a series on the Social Era — and what it takes to win in it. Instead of ‘Built to Last’, we need to ‘Build for Speed’. [...]

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Yahoo’s ShakeUp Demands Fearlessness

By on February 8, 2012 in Culture & Leadership, Tech & Trends

Four longtime Yahoo board members, including the chairman, are leaving the company. In this one move, Yahoo is trying to make a clean break from the past — signaling that they are primed to reboot. It’s a much-needed and long-overdue step on the path to shifting trajectories. The Pattern of Failing Organizations Larger organizations follow [...]

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5 Steps To Reach the Boardroom

By on February 8, 2012 in The Personal Story

This was a post that I did for my friends at Women 2.0. It’s meant as career advice and a way to #changetheratio in the long-run. Once again, the topic of women on Boards is getting play. Most of Facebook’s 800 Million users are women, but all of its seven directors are men. It’s such [...]

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Sneak Peek at TEDBookstore

By on February 6, 2012 in Tech & Trends

Last week, I had my very own ‘Sophie’s Choice’ moment, but not for children… but for books. TED (the conference) offers an onsite bookstore with handpicked titles. The Bookstore is run by a socially responsible business, BetterWorldBooks, which donates monies in the millions to literacy programs in the developing world. Like any bookstore in a [...]

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Must-Reads This Week

By on February 1, 2012 in Tech & Trends

I’ve been rather offline for most of January, and I thought you wouldn’t notice. But, a bunch of you – including people I barely know –  have been dropping emails or near strangers stopping me at coffee shops, “What’s up?” and, “Why haven’t I written for Harvard lately”. Well it’s nice to be missed, and [...]

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What Barack Obama Could Learn from Vivek Wadhwa

By on January 27, 2012 in Culture & Leadership, Social

Ever since the presidential election of 2008, I’ve been getting progressively mad about something. I got enthralled with an administration that wanted to connect with people in the social era to create change. Perhaps unrealistically, I had this hope it would carry beyond the election cycle. I knew it wouldn’t be easy but I thought [...]

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Are You Experiencing Bliss?

By on January 26, 2012 in The Personal Story

Today, I mark my 44th birthday. People often wish people happiness or joy on birthdays. For some reason, I am not a fan of these sentiments. They seem sappy and fleeting. It’s the reason why I never make my birthday visible on Facebook. Saying Happy Birthday in some meaningless post once a year does not [...]

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Go Where No One Else Is

By on January 12, 2012 in Uncategorized

Thedailybeast Wed, Jan 11 2012 20:47:57 Whitney Johnson, a partner at Clayton Christensen’s investment firm wrote a powerful piece in 2011 uniquely captured why pursuing a disruptive course is the best investment you can make. “ Throw out the performance metrics you’ve always relied on “A disruptive innovation must measure different attributes of performance than [...]

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The Secret to Being Really, Really Smart

By on January 10, 2012 in Entrepreneurship, The Personal Story

Surprised I was when I opened the Christmas present that held a Canon T3 Digital Camera. After the tornado that is Christmas was over with the ribbons saved and mounds of wrapping paper recycled, I sat down with the manual only to find myself regretting getting this present. How could that initial squeal of delight [...]

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