To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
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Here’s an attempt to blog about topics I enjoy learning and practicing.
Different Perspectives
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
A good answer takes the following form:
“Most people believe in X, but the truth is the opposite of X.”
Here are some such perspectives that influenced me.
Most people, deep down, are pretty decent
Why not everybody is out to get you
Failure should not be shameful and stigmatizing
Richest Art & Science come from collaboration, not brilliant loners
Work
How do you see your work?
I am not very creative!
Act like a founder
The little big things
Tactics, Routines and Habits of Performers
4000 Weeks – Make your time matter
Most Important Skill of the Future
Office Politics?
Entrepreneurship
You will be happier for the trouble!
One of the most amazing inventions of humans?
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish
An Entrepreneur’s Story
Steve Jobs in the Garden of Allah
Hatching Twitter
What Valuable Company Is Nobody Building?
The Lean Startup
Art of Self-Leadership
Art of Listening
Expressing gratitude is a talent
Apologizing
Art of Taking Feedback
Watch out for these habits!
Winning too much
Adding too much value
Passing judgement
Making destructive comments
Starting with No, But, However
Telling the world how smart we are
Speaking when angry
Negativity or let me explain why That won’t work
Withholding information
Failing to give proper recognition
Claiming credit we don’t deserve
Making excuses
Clinging to the past
Playing favorites
Refusing to express regret
Not listening
Failing to express gratitude
Punishing the Messenger
Passing the buck
An excessive need to be “me”, and,
Goal obsession
You no longer have any problems?
The End of Average
Art of Leading
If more people were better leaders;
the benefits would be endless.
We could change the world.
Manage the System, Not the People
Are you manipulating or inspiring?
Start with WHY
Emergent Leadership
Radical Transparency
Hiring Gone Wrong
Make Managers Better
What it means to be a Manager today?
COIN Framework for Giving Feedback
Performance Management Systems
Expect Little, Get Little. Expect a Lot …
Learning Organizations
One-on-One’s
Fight Fear, Embrace Change
Growing Leaders, Not Bosses
Break the 24/7 Habit
Holding “auditions” to build a strong team
Motivating People With Better Rewards
Problems with Conflict Aversion
Embrace a Make Noise Culture
A ‘Just’ Culture
Changing human behavior is one of the most difficult efforts;
We can lead change! It’s quite possibly, the most rewarding;
Here’s some help from Dr John Kotters’ books written as fables.
Save Your Good Idea
Our Iceberg is Melting
Fight Fear, Embrace Change
The Kaizen Way
Curiosity, Creativity, Innovation
Art of Looking
Art of Sensing
Art of Going Places
Art of Connecting with Others, and,
Art of Being Alone
Three Mindsets
Transitioning from Fear of Failure to Art of Failure
Flash Teams
Power of Cognitive Diversity in Teams
Working with People Who Are Different
To-Go or To-Date Thinking
How relationships drive creativity
Making Innovation Happen
A treasure trove of ideas;
For creative-thinking techniques;
From Michael Michalko’s Thinker Toys;
Tick Tock
Mind Pumping
Challenges
Left and Right Brains
False Faces
Slice and Dice
Cherry Split
Think Bubbles
True and False
Design (Thinking)
Everything is design.
Design should be you …
In everything you do.
Everyone should be encouraged to be “design minded.”
What is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is more than Style
Putting people first
These people have no process
Power of prototyping
Design of experiences
Teaching to fish
The new social contract.
50 Insights from Psychology
Built to Love
The importance of story telling
Three Rules of Story telling
What is your story? Report, Explanation, Pitch or Drama?
If it cannot be used for evil, it is not a super power!
How to Build Habit Forming Products?
Agile Thinking & Practices
What have you prototyped lately?
Do you have the quick prototype attitude?
Power of prototyping
Form a question, build a prototype, run a test!
Solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days
XP practices mentioned in Joy Inc:
Space and Noise,
Pairing,
Conversations, Rituals and Artifacts,
Interviewing, Hiring and On-boarding,
Design Sprints,
Sprint Planning,
Test Driven Design,
Sustainability and Flexibility,
Scalability and
Accountability and Alignment.
Books and TED talks for further exploration.
On Education
Stop Stealing Dreams
Full Body Education
School vs Learning
What Teachers Make
What would you like to do if money were no object?
Education is Broken – Here’s a Solution
Some ideas for the classroom:
Using a Video in Classroom?
Icebreaker Questions
Computers and Internet Applications
Can’t afford a professional designer?
Start a Podcast
Be a Micro Entrepreneur
Robotic Process Automation
Learn Online
Working remotely?
Talent Platforms
My curated YouTube Channel List
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