Unless you are castaway on an Island, I can bet you’ve been bombarded by Blockchain or Bitcoin news. Blockchain is the new cool kid on the ‘Block’. I have been reading about this for a while and I am privileged to talk directly with folks within the technology world who are trying to bring this…
Is Project Management more an ‘Art’ that is unique to the capabilities of few individuals or a ‘Science’ that can be systematically studied and applied predictably? The best way to answer that question is by drawing inference to the field of Photography. There is a rule in Photography called ‘The Rule of Thirds’. In its…
About 15 years ago I attended a presentation on Project Management that changed the trajectory of my career. Recently I shared that story and some more stories with the students of Project Management Course at Seattle University. This post is a summary of my talk. Since it was an hour long talk and I had…
The age-old maxim, Vox Populi, Vox Dei meaning Voice of People is the Voice of God may hold some credence against the popular belief that crowd behavior is the expression of human madness. Lets see how. Wisdom of the crowd phenomenon was first noted just over a century ago by Sir Francis Galton when he asked…
I learnt about an interesting concept in an unusual situation. Over the weekend, I was waiting in the check-out line in Costco (a local wholesale warehouse / store) with only couple of items bought to ring through the cash registers. Being a wholesale store, people buy stuff in large quantities and given the weekend, the lines were really…
The brilliance of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ was recognized again last week when John Nash the famous mathematician won the coveted Abel prize in Mathematics. John Nash is one of the very few mathematicians known in popular culture not only as a celebrity popularized by the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but also for the ground breaking work…
Did you know that – Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was imminent? Google Glass was destined to be a failure given the privacy concerns and high price? India outperformed other emerging economies in the recent past? The information technology sector is the primary driver of India’s economic growth? Given our past experience and things we…
Makar Sankranthi is a festival of change. During this period, the Sun passes through the winter solstice, from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn i.e. a journey from South to North, an evolution towards a positive direction, a journey to make days longer, brighter and warmer. The Sanskrit word Sankranthi literally means sacred…
You are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and you have been reading about the Sony Pictures hack news in the media lately. You are worried that your company’s systems may be vulnerable for hack attacks too. You hire IT consultants to make recommendations. They tell you – Only 2% of the Fortune 500…
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