In changing times, question everything you take for granted.

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:freely exchangeable currency.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control