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You’ll Never Be the Same Again

It was the first week of orientation for my graduate degree at Stanford. There are 60 of us in a room for a team building exercise called “Star Power.” The game was this: three groups of 20 (top, middle and [...]

Positive Tickets

Think of the last time you were pulled over by the police. Did you wonder to yourself: “Is this going to be a positive ticket or a negative one?” Not likely. Because wherever you are in the world we know [...]

If You Do Fewer Things, You Can Go Higher

When Steve Jobs returned to an almost bankrupt Apple, he could have tried to maximize profits by squeezing every cent out of each of the existing product lines. Instead, he went from hundreds of products down to 10. It was [...]

A New Gandhi in India

I was recently in Bangalore amidst one of the most extraordinary demonstrations of leadership I have ever seen or studied. Without hyperbole, I believe we may be seeing a new Gandhi rise in India. The leader is Anna Hazare.  He [...]