I had extensive travel in March but managed to keep the blogging rhythm going. I feel good about that. Happily the comments are also building up. March saw an average of 2.2 comments for every post. Traffic continues to grow. The page views increased 29% in March to 1864 a day. My guess is that the feed subscriptions are also growing though I have no way knowing for sure as I don’t use FeedBlitz.
These are the most popular posts of March. Check them out if you missed any…
The New Business Case for Gender Diversity
The business case for diversity was initially about talent shortage. Then it was defined in market-based terms. It was about understanding diverse and multicultural customers. Now the business case is about giving the firm the capability to have an adaptive strategy posture so that it can succeed in times of increasing uncertainty. This argument calls for gender diversity not just in the workforce but also in the top management teams. Making that happen is not easy.
A Different Startup Mantra
There are two startup worlds out there. One is about comparative selling and the other one is about displacement selling. One is about leveraging disruptive technology and the other is about leveraging exogenous effects. One is about mastery over disintermediation, commoditization, or offshoring to reduce time-to-market; the other is about using it help the customer do legacy stuff for less. These subtle but significant differences in the startup mantra have big implications for entrepreneurs and VCs.
What Makes Us Hollow Leaders?
Real leadership is about discouraging sucking up. This takes self-awareness and character.
A Practical Framework for Successful Product Offshoring
The product offshoring failures don’t get discussed publicly and the same mistakes are made again and again. This article discusses a practical framework for success.
Imagine If Quantum Mechanics Ceases To Be So Esoteric?
Terence Tao has offered a fascinating analogy of quantum mechanics using computer games. He is able to explain many aspects of quantum mechanics like “many-world” existence of reality, the dual particle and wave existence, the quantization phenomenon, Bell inequality violation, and more. This raises the question: What if QM ceases to be so esoteric? Might it not then have a social impact much like Copernicus’ heliocentric theory and theory of evolution?
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