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Continue reading →: What Snoopy Can Teach Us About Change InitiativesFirst published in BW Businessworld here. In 1967, during a launch rehearsal test, all three astronauts of Apollo-I tragically lost their lives in a command module fire. A vast majority of NASA’s 268,000 employees were working on getting a handful of astronauts to space and NASA had to get their…
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Continue reading →: Do You Have A Pyke In Your Team?First published in BW Businessworld here. Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke was described as, “not a scientist, but a man of a vivid and uncontrollable imagination”. He was a one-man think tank working in Lord Mountbatten’s Combined Operations during World War II. In 1940 he came up with the idea for a…
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Continue reading →: 2021; The Second Innings Reading ListAlmost the end of the year. Read some great books and some not so great. See this post for my reading list from the first six months of 2021. . The year’s second innings, in books. From the must reads, to the hmmm and to ho-hmmm. The absolute stunners and…
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Continue reading →: When process didn’t get us to the moon.First published in BW Businessworld here. Soon after President Kennedy famously committed to landing a person on the moon, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) started working on the Surveyor; an unmanned machine that would soft-land on the moon, take measurements, photographs and subsequently deploy a small roving vehicle. But soon,…
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Continue reading →: Do you have an Acoustic Kitty project?First published in BW Businessworld, 19 July 2021. Read it here. In the 1960s, CIA’s Directorate of Science & Technology launched a project called Acoustic Kitty to spy on Soviet embassies. The idea was to create a feline-machine hybrid, a kind of cyborg cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinarian…
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Continue reading →: The Devil In (More) Details.First published in BW Businessworld here. As a young professional, before turning to academics, our Professor was the Plant Head of a manufacturing facility located in north India. He narrated this anecdote in a business management class to explain how in the pre-liberalization era, with a combative labor union, managing…
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Continue reading →: Idi Amin BriefsFirst published in BW Businessworld here. Idi Amin was the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. In addition to being one of the most brutal despots in history, he’s also famous for his self-bestowed titles. For instance, in 1977, when the United Kingdom broke all diplomatic relations with his…
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Continue reading →: Halfway Mark.2021Almost half way through the year. Read some great books and some not so great. My year, until now, in books. From the must reads, to the hmm, to the ho-humm to the why-did-I-buy-it. The absolute stunners and must reads. Confessions of the Pricing Man by Hermann Simon An absolute…
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Continue reading →: The Pursuit Of SamenessFirst published in BW Businessworld here. A visit to the Vatican inspired the bookseller, Josep Maria Bocabella, to build a church. He started collecting donations for the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia (the Basilica of the Holy Family) in Barcelona, Spain and construction began in 1882. A year later, after…
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Continue reading →: Book Review & Summary: How to avoid a climate disaster.Why read a book about climate change? With the world split between believers and deniers, climate change can be contentious. In his book, How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, Bill Gates doesn’t even pretend to persuade the deniers. Bill Gates’ book is for people who believe that climate change is…
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