Yesterday I had a long conversation with my dear friend Pree Kolari who is a designer, artist, engineer, and a beekeeper. He started his academic career studying instrumentation engineering in Mysore and has evolved into a sensitive silicon valley tech leader who is driven by humanitarian and sustainability values. During…

What if work did not feel like work! What if hard work did not feel like work load! Is such an experience possible for everyone of us within the framework of the employer employee relationships that exist today? In this article I propose that such a future is possible if…

I have learned that no matter what my intentions, beliefs or ideology are, I cannot force lasting change alone in the world. Change tends follow its own pace no matter how fast we want to engineer it. I have also learned that visionary and passionate leaders who trigger disruptive change…

This weekend my wife and I spent a whole day with three of her classmates from high school and their spouses in the serene surrounds of the lake Sammamish,WA . We were meeting for the first time 49 years after their high school graduation. We discussed a wide range of…

There is a new trend in companies to search for disruptive leaders like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elan Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, to lead their way into the emerging future. Will hiring a disruptive leader help take your company into the future? My proposition is- while there definitely is a…

It’s been a week of interesting conversations. My faith in curiosity and an open minded dialogue as the provenance of all human creativity is reaffirmed as I ponder about my interactions with people over the past several days. The week started with my designer friend Jacob Mathew inviting me to…

I kicked off my UX Design class at the Silicon Valley campus of the integrated innovation institute of the Carnegie Mellon University yesterday. For the past 14 years I have lived on the fringes of the Silicon Valley where I moved from the Midwest. I choose to remain on the…

People often ask me which of the several cities around the world that I have travelled to, I like the most. I find it difficult to name one. However, when I reframe the question as “the city that I have been most surprised by” invariably Moscow comes to the top…

Yesterday was a special day for me. I had an online design dialogue with the students and faculty of the Department of Design & Innovation at the 100 year old Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. The dialogue was special for many reasons; most important amongst them is that Jamia…