It was during my high school days when I crammed up on everything sounding like ENIAC, UNIVAC, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Bill Gates, etc. It was for a computer quiz organized by the state gov and I was representing my college. I got 2nd prize and was very disappointed with…

Does your strategy needs a strategy? Apparently, Yes. If your are interested in strategy frameworks, you will know that there are quite a few popular ones. Here is a tool that the authors created to navigate the history of strategy frameworks — History of Strategy. I was intrigued about this…

I read Radical Candor sometime back and recently did a re-read. This is something that has really influenced or reinforced my leadership style — caring personally and challenging directly which makes up the top right quadrant of the radical candor framework that Kim Scott proposes in this book. The book…

Even though the book “The CIO Paradox” was written almost 8 years ago, its still very relevant and describes the challenges that are facing IT and technology leaders today. Martha Heller has captured some of the key challenges of the being in a leadership role for a IT / technology…

Another great book by Prof. Amy C. Edmondson (who formally introduced me to the concept of psychological safety in her book The fearless organization). …

In my experience and research, I have come across 7 dimensions of a modern digital transformation. Each of the these dimensions play an integral role in achieving a successful digital transformation. In this post, I will introduce these 7 dimensions. But first, lets define what digital transformation means in our…

Black Box Thinking is a great read on failure. Or how to learn from it. A string of failures. How to turn a string of failures into repetitive testing and translate that into a string of marginal gains. Matthew Syed delves into many examples of failures across different fields, how…

If you are an IT leader or in Product Management, Marty Cagan’s Inspired is a must read. And so is his follow up book — Empowered which he has co authored with Chris Jones. Similar to Inspired, his new book is a lot of chapters (80+). And similar to Inspired…

I typically don’t do reviews for memoirs. That too for a celebrity. But I will make an exception for PC or Priyanka Chopra. And now I have to be really careful as to what I say next (my wife is a die hard fan) :) I am not a huge…