Identifying problems is easy. For the most part. If you’re honest and open minded about the situation/circumstance/result, you can find room for improvement in almost about anything. You can’t take an international standard and apply it strictly around the world the same way. The challenge lies when a framework designed by the “international experts” does…
Category: strategy
Yerkes-Dodson law
The Yerkes-Dodson law is about the relationship between stress and performance. The law states that performance increases with mental stress, but only up to a point. When levels of stress become too high, performance decreases. If you are in any capacity working to improve someone’s performance, use moderate stress to increase his/her performance. Consider skill…
Love
Love makes you feel complete. Love makes you alive. Love makes you…
AI For Everyone
AI For Everyone, a non-technical course available on Coursera will help you understand AI technologies and spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organization. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested to learn about AI. I’m excited to take this course and had been waiting for it for a while. Read…
Beauty of not yet
Professor Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford talks about her groundbreaking work on developing mindsets. She emphasizes the power of “yet” in helping students succeed in and out of the classroom. What a beautiful concept!
Go for it
Chances are that you are contemplating whether to take the plunge or stay where you are. Chances are that you are deciding whether it’s worth the risk or not. Chances are that the voice inside is telling you to give it a try and live with the results. We have dreams. We have goals. We…
The Professor Speaks
I use to watch And1 basketball show on TV and then on YouTube. Grayson Boucher or more commonly known as “The Professor” was a regular in those And1 clips. Glad to hear his story on Tedx Talks. I like the last part of his presentation where he shares three learnings from his life experiences: proving…
Listening
How are your listening skills? Are you listening more than you are talking? Are you attentively listening to your team? Richard Branson talks about how important listening skills are in our daily lives. Kobe Bryant says on leadership that “to be an effective leader, you have to be a really good listener and focus not…
Bruce Lee
I have put Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee in my reading list this year. I’m glad to have found this video of him which makes me want to read the book even more.
Understanding the world (to some extent)
To get an overview of some of the things that are happening around the world and to know that things are actually improving globally, it’s good to read over Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2019 Annual Letter. Some of the points that I found interesting were: Africa is the youngest continent (its median age is just…
Dear AI,
You came and changed the game. After that, it was never the same. You were talked about everywhere. It felt like you just came out of nowhere. You were an enigma to some but inspiration to many. You were hated by some but loved by many. You were a pioneer in so many ways. Authentic…
Service wins
There will always be vendors who can do the services you need at a cheaper price. You can research, talk to people, do more research and find the lowest cost provider. But is cost the only factor to consider when your business operations needs to run smoothly? Excellent customer service will matter more when the…
Venture Talk with Dr. Sameer Maskey | Democratizing AI
Dr. Sameer Maskey, founder and CEO of Fusemachines talks about Democratizing AI in this Venture Talk series.
Are you putting a man on the moon?
The story goes like this: President John F. Kennedy was visiting NASA headquarters for the first time in 1961. While touring the facility, the President introduced himself to a janitor and asked him what he did at NASA. The janitor replied “I’m helping put a man on the moon!” What I got from this was…
Chasing success (Published in Republica)
Having grown up in two distinct cultures—Nepali and American—I have had the opportunity to learn the best from each of them. Values such as hard work, humility, and respect are beautiful attributes of Nepali culture. From my work experience in Nepal, I have come to realize three qualities that we can strive for a better…
Delegate responsibility not tasks
To make a team strong, you have to empower them, trust them, and provide feedback. As a manager/leader, you will have a lot on your plate. Decisions have to be made. If you delegate tasks, the team members will do just enough to complete it. They won’t feel ownership or empowered enough to do their…
Derek Sivers on the benefits of a daily diary
I recommend you to read Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals by Derek Sivers.
Win for all
When a new innovation/technology comes around, it will have an impact. Whether small or big, it will create changes. That change can affect many people’s livelihoods. It’s important to consider the societal impact of the new innovation. As much as possible, it’s best to consider the impact brought out by it and think of ways…
Hype falls short
It’s a “good problem” when a business has to turn away customers because it does not have the current capacity to fill up their orders. That’s usually a result of a viral activity, marketing stunt, recent media publicity or sometimes just luck. If the business cannot promptly figure out the solutions to this “good problem”…
Root of innovation
Competition breeds innovation. It’s a survival thing. If you’re not innovating when the competition is coming at you, then you’re gone. There are thousands of websites (around 140,000 per day) that pop up on the internet. However, our daily visits are on a particular few websites where we spend most of our times. Why is…