N.R. Narayana Murthy, the legendary cofounder and retired chairman of Indian tech giant Infosys, has recently proposed the idea of 70-hour workweek to boost India’s productivity. Here’s the follow-up message by Catbert, the Evil HR Director to clarify the doubts.
Everyone loves to blame others when things go wrong. We also enjoy judging others. So let’s play the game of judging and blaming and find the guilty behind the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, and the biggest since the 2008 financial crisis.
There’s an old saying that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. When we talk about the entire planetary ecosystem, human stupidity is the most important constraint in the way of sustainable progress. Stupidity is a pervasive human condition because we are fundamentally stupid creatures. And unlike intelligence, stupidity knows no bounds. So here I present an animated discussion about the tyranny of the bounded rationality and the unbounded stupidity. This witty conversation between Santa Singh and Banta Singh is about the past, the present and the future of mankind.
Sapiens were once foragers living a nomadic life and probably a happy one. But around 12,000 years ago, agriculture—particularly the wheat crop—domesticated them and led to the creation of civilizations. And thus began the tale of ignorance, neglect, and decline. Here’s the sad story as narrated by an alien…
The art of designing business strategy is also about discovering the vast grey ocean which lies hidden somewhere between the red and the blue ocean. There actually exist myriad ways of doing business beyond the ordinary; however, it’s quite difficult to fathom their existence without using your sixth sense. To implement it in life and business, one needs to have a grey ocean mindset. Here’s the lowdown on the grey ocean strategy.
