Ambidexterity – a key to effective leadership for exponential age!
In our rapidly evolving world, leadership is shifting from traditional models to adaptive styles, which necessitates being ambidextrous in handling the following seven key tensions, as Jennifer Jordan and Michael Wade describe in this HBR Article: To thrive in this exponentially transforming world, leaders should: What are your thoughts?
Secret to health, happiness and wealth!
I met my 25 year younger self and lived the golden years of college once again this weekend as I attended the NED Alumni Association’s annual convention in Chicago. Being an NEDian is not just about earning a badge of honor to be called an alum of Pakistan’s premier Engineering college, it is the emblem…
Staying relevant in the age of Exponential Transformation
We are living in an age of exponential technological progress which is happening at a pace unprecedented throughout the history of mankind. This progress is teansforming every endeavor of human activity and all industries. New business models and value propositions are disrupting decades old ways of doing business. Human experiences are also being drastically transformed…
To the best leadership coach, my mom!
As I thought about who has had the most profound impact on my life, the one and the only person that came to my mind, is Ammi, my mother. Without her presence in my life as a guide, I would surely not be who I am today! On this Mother’s day, I thought to share…
TO SUCCEED IN LIFE, BUILD THESE SKILLS…
As we traverse through our lives, moving from college to first full-time job or grad school and then professional lives, or pursue entrepreneurial ambitions to build something new and scale it, we continue to take inspiration from those highly successful individuals that have ‘made it’ – achieved what we are aspiring to. The definition of…
Webinar series on “Transforming an idea into a business with Design Thinking”
I was recently invited by OPEN Silicon Valley to host online workshops around Design Thinking for the community. During the COVID-19 quarantine, I thought this would provide a way for many individuals to spend some time learning something useful. Here are the recordings of the Five-part webinar series that I hosted for a global audience.
The exponentially improving world we live in
We are living in the best time the world has ever seen…
I have seen the future, it is mind-blowing, abundant & scary. And I want to create it!
As I was beginning to write this blog, I was considering to use the title Brain re-wired, as that is exactly what I experienced last week at Singularity University Global Summit 2019. If you don’t yet know about Singularity University, it is time you must. Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil founded this amazing institution a…
Why I wrote a book?
Over the course of almost two decades of experience, mostly in the Silicon Valley, I had the unique opportunity to work with world’s most prestigious brands across varying industries ranging from high tech, semi-conductors, software, consumer products, retail & health care to Oil & Gas, Utilities and Petrochemicals. Throughout this journey, I worked with business…
Elevate Product Management to the next level using Design Thinking
With the experience of being a product manager of a key enterprise application and having driven product strategy for several hundred million dollar enterprise product line, I have lived through the challenges of product management in an enterprise environment. Customers for multi-million dollar solutions not just look to solve real life problems impacting key aspects…
How best to formulate business strategy using Design Thinking?
With management consultants and industry experts promising to solve challenges facing organizations, how could design thinking be used to tackle strategic issues facing large and small companies?
Design Thinking for setting strategic direction for Start-ups
How Design Thinking helped three start-ups build strategy to take their ideas to the next level.
What is Design Thinking and why is it better?
Before I give examples of use of Design Thinking for Business Innovation, it is important to give a quick overview of Design Thinking. TRADITIONAL APPROACH In traditional approach, for evaluating any business proposition, the two most important aspects that are taken into account by business executives are (1) Viability, and (2) Feasibility. This approach looks…
Design Thinking for Problem Solving and Innovation
With over 15 years of experience in solving problems facing organizations from the largest in the world to the smallest start-ups in varying capacities, I have come to the appreciation of balancing creative sparks with analytical rigor to not just solve, rather find problems to solve. Contrary to the widely held misconception that creativity is a…
Exponential world 