Linda Hill, Collective Genius and Innovation

 “Everybody has slice of genius” -Linda Hill Linda Hill is a professor of management at Harvard Business School. Linda while doing research on leadership came to conclusion that research on leadership was not same as research on innovation. While a visionary leader can bring about change desired change in organisation, innovation is a collective effort. …

Innovation, Urban Experiment and Desert Farm

“Urban explorers are the only people who, between us, know it all. We move between each network. We know where they link up - often, it's us who made the link. The authorities, the police, town hall, they don't know a hundredth, a thousandth, of what's down there." -Lazar Kunstmann, spokesman UX Sometimes innovation comes …

Public Choice Theory, Indira Gandhi and JNU

 Some time back a group of youth belonging to a group called Ram Sene decided to attack women who went to pubs or celebrated Valentine’s Day. Some women were attacked at a pub in Mangalore. Later women retaliated by sending pink panties to Ram Sene office. Over period of time both Ram Sene and Pink …

Zeigarnik Effect, Procrastination and Arabian Nights

Bluma Zeigarnik was a Lithuanian psychologist who once observed that waiters had better recollection of unpaid bills orders than orders for which bills were paid. Once the unpaid bills were paid their recollection about those orders went down. Bluma studied this phenomenon in more details and come up with what known as Zeigarnik effect. Zeigarnik …

Seth Godin, Procrastination and Annie Kenney

“Tell your lizard ( brain) to shut up” -Seth Godin Seth Godin is an American author who has written a book What To Do When It's Your Turn (and it's always your turn). On cover page is photograph of lady called Annie Kenney.   Annie Kenney started working in cotton mill at the age of …

Bank Run, Depositors and Game Theory

Recently a Mumbai based cooperative bank was in news for lending huge amount of money to 2-3 industrialists who had closed their business and had disappeared with the money. What was left with bank was inventory worth few lakhs. There was panic among depositors who rushed to various branches of bank to withdraw their money. …