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A Brief Overview of Failure from Pecha Kucha #19 (Part 2)
Yesterday, I wrote up the first part of a brief overview of the last Pecha Kucha Night, which was held on Friday, the 17th of May, and focused on Failure. It wasn’t all that brief, though, because there was so … Continue reading
A Brief Overview of Failure from Pecha Kucha #19 (Part 1)
The Pecha Kucha Night last Friday was, for me, one of the most interesting editions of the event, primarily because the focus topic, Failure, brought together a great group of speakers talking about it from very different perspectives. Presentations were … Continue reading
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Tagged Anvita Arora, Enviu, failure, Isha Singh Sawney, iTrans, Jatin Modi, Jesse van de Zand, Nandini Hirianniah, Pecha Kucha Night, PKND19
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Adianta School Featured on Mahindra Rise!
We’re very pleased to share that the Mahindra Rise blog recently featured an article on the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation. Alisha Varma, the author, interviewed Adianta Chairman Dr. Aditya Dev Sood about what the school hopes to accomplish … Continue reading
Nine Learnings from #Failure (PKND 19)
We recently hosted an interesting evening of presentations in the 20×20 PechaKucha format, all on the topic of failure. We had about a dozen speakers, talking about everything from personal failings to systemic failure, to start up failure to managing … Continue reading
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How the System is Killing a Future Green Designer
I met a young guy yesterday, whose story has preoccupied me a bit. He came for one of our workshops, and stopped by to talk afterwards. He told me he has always had an affinity for biology and biological systems, … Continue reading
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A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success
Organizing this Pecha Kucha Night on Failure has naturally made me think and talk a lot about failure, as well as its opposite, success. Exploring these concepts naturally led me to TED talks on YouTube (I can’t help myself sometimes!), … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de Botton, failure, Pecha Kucha Night, PKND19, Success
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Learning by Doing, A Definition of Innovation
We just concluded the first of a series of workshops we have planned, on building professional skills in young people. We had a clutch of parents, a bunch of students and young professionals, even an industry hand from the field … Continue reading
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Where the Answers Lie
The other day I had to leave work after lunch to run an errand for the family. I walked around Lajpat Nagar not finding what I was looking for, but I could suddenly see something really clearly… I called my … Continue reading
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The Libertarian Attack on Higher Education?
The New Yorker has reposted its earlier piece on Peter Thiel, the well known philosopher-entrepreneur-investor of Silicon Valley. It’s really an extraordinary account, by the great George Packer, of Thiel’s politics, worldview, and how they align to disrupt higher education. … Continue reading
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The Three Cornerstones of Social Business
via @EskoKilpi Three recent blogposts by Finnish management and digital media consultant Esko Kilpi explore what he calls the three ‘cornerstones’of social business: private broadcasting, pull communication and short path lengths with creative social curation. But what do these mean? … Continue reading
