A Warrior’s search for Synchronicity

This book emphasizes the understanding that customer is the real CEO or boss. Innovation at P & G realized and executed this paradigm shift in 2000 which made a dramatic change. P & G executives ‘Lived it, worked it’ with their customers understanding their needs, searching for the unspoken moments of truth and embedded them into their products.

A great read for those who wish to make innovation a religion in their personal and professional lives

Have you heard these terms before, intriguing aren’t they. Well, if you are interested April 12 edition of economist has a special report on mobility. This report goes in detail about companies which feels no need for any physical office, increasing use of ‘Starbucks’ premises as meeting rooms, increasing dependency of children on parents due to mobile phones, how digital messaging services affects languages (linguistic whateverism) and declining grammar & spelling , your mobile phone becoming a gps, planner and synchronizing device which can arrange for a friend in the same building and you to share a taxi and birth of a new species homo mobilis .——A special report of mobility

Dan Pink’s new career guide – mango style comic book is a dart in the bulls eye

Everyone in their career hit road blocks, there are moments of self – reinvention, difficult choices and predicament. The most appealing advice that I got from Dan Pink is that “most successful people make decisions for fundamental reasons. They take a job or join a company because it will let them do interesting work in a cool place–even if they don’t know where it will lead.”

Any job should be mutually fulfilling. Your skills ( which you know about and you do not) should benefit the organization ( both within and outside your job description) and the climate & culture of the organization should enhance your being. It is not about being at the right place at the right time, but about seeing the unseen, hearing the unspoken and delivering the unexpected; redefining your role continuously so that you never get tired doing the same job repeatedly.

The first time I took ‘Wisdom of crowds’ to read, I didn’t get too far. However now after reading ‘Wikinomics’, ‘Free Agent Nation’ and understanding the benefits of mass collaboration it was a natural progression into more depth about the science and reasons about why crowds are more intelligent than specialists. Being a specialist myself, I find it difficult to get to grips with this idea, however when I know something as ubiquitous as ‘google’ which has used crowd wisdom effectively in their search engines, I have no choice but to agree. However asking the crowds is different from asking your friends. Yet at which point do you chose between specialists and crowds.

The major problem in life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions-the door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed, or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door – Martin Luther King Jr

Seth Godin’s Big Moo is a collection of ideas by various thinkers like Tom Peters, Malcom Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki written in a novel way without identifying which part belong to whom, so that readers do not have to shift gears in their brain. Evey penny earned from this book goes to charity and I must say there are many gems in here. On top of that read 10 chapters free -http://www.sethgodin.com/bigmoo/

But then they danced down the streets like dinglebodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” – On the road – Jack Kerouac