Regression planning
As the world and its system progress, many things which were formerly life skills are increasingly outsourced or automated. What would happen if we had to go back to them? Can we handle the scenario without a playbook?
Tag: Change
Evolving against entropy
As businesses become more complex in their value propositions to customers, its systems get hit by entropy. Chaos becomes common and disorder is the default. Ultimately, this will lead to a collapse, but is it possible to delay the inevitable? What can an organisation do?
Knew you, again
Jon Westenberg wrote on a subject I too have been mulling over recently – It’s Sad When Someone You Know Becomes Someone You Knew – on people who have become footnotes in one’s life. I could relate to it, though I do think that many relationships have a context-based shelf life. I have written about this before – […]
A divided existence
A phrase I came across recently captured my ‘mood’ in both work and life spheres (links to my most recent posts) very crisply – nostalgia for the absolute. Coined by the philosopher George Steiner, it isn’t a coincidence that it reached me courtesy a Breaking Smart essay. As I have mentioned earlier, the entire series has […]
Re: Org
Timehop, which takes me on a nostalgia trip everyday, reminded me recently that it has been a year since I wrote The Change Imperative. The opening slide features a quote – “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less“- attributed to Gen. Eric Shinseki. In the times we work in, I believe this […]