ll I know is that I know nothing” – Socrates The virtuous life is a life of wisdom, attributed to that wise man Socrates who lived two millennium ago. We are victims of our ego, our self-esteem and an inner burning feeling of self-grandeur. Overcoming these deeply ingrained “neural pre-programmed” circuits is crucial to the […]
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Many times success comes through the path of chance encounters. Call it serendipity; stumbling on the next great business idea, finding that new super talent, getting the next big career break, finding your better half ….. the spark is around you. Darwin learned of natural selection by reading Malthus. Steve Jobs discovered the computer mouse
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Fear confines you. The steely wall of mental confinement extinguishes the fire of possibilities, exploration and discovery. It turns your aspirations into distant dreams. Fear constrains ambition, saps strength and draws you into the inner recess of the nothingness. Fear is primal, perhaps the very pre-requisite of life. Without this complex neural mechanism, the species
Are you born to be great? or you learn on your way to achieving greatness? In 1848, Phineas Gage, a 25 year old construction foreman in railway, suffered an intriguing injury during roadbed preparation in Vermont. A tamping iron 1.25″ in diameter, 3’7″ in length, weighing 13 pounds pierced through lower left side of his
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We have marched un-noticeably into the 21st century, the “Age of Information”. Unknowingly, we have slipped in our ways over decades, from waiting for the morning newspaper to afternoon tuning of radio stations and then to listening to 24/7 news channels. With enthusiasm, we accepted the “always-connected” phones and now behold in front of our
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How can one know a machine is intelligent ? By using the Turing test, the ability of a machine to communicate human like. Have you noticed lately, the human like fluidity of AI powered customer service bots ? The Start – 50’s and 60’s The word Artificial intelligence was not coined until 1955 by John McCarthy who then
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How can we discern and assign value to emerging technologies ? Can a framework guide us with confidence to place smarter bets on technologies, trends and businesses? The PROBLEM Since earliest of times, we had faced the challenge of selecting a winner. In the modern age of accelerated innovation, it is virtually a random bet to
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In 1950’s Harry Harlow at the University Wisconsin conducted a series of ground breaking experiments. The subjects were infant monkeys separated at birth from their mothers. Devoid of parenthood, put in a cage, the researchers watched as the infants were frightened by strange, loud sounds and objects. In the experiments, the two surrogate mothers were
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This is part-2 of my previous blog AI is the new normal. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the technology for many decades and it will be a required feature for products to effectively compete in the market place . But today, many of the product teams are at a loss in how to incorporate this technology in
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Recognizing your team capability and fixing them to become A-team is the first responsibility of a manager. This requires participating, talking and listening deeply. A Team = Just gets it Done B Team = Assigns Blame C Team = Runs in Circles What is your team type? Discover more from The Quiet Leadership Subscribe to
