Hope you are doing well. Welcome back to Inflexion Point, your monthly from the realms of creativity, innovation and strategy. In this edition, we learn if larger brains are really more intelligent, are left-handed more creative than right-handed, if it's true that creativity is a right-brain phenomenon, what you could learn from Apple's management of Jony Ive, and the innovation secrets of Honda. People With Larger Heads Really Do Tend to Be Smarter Research suggests that i

Hope this mail finds you well. This edition of Inflexion Point includes a simple model of entrepreneurial risk taking, lessons on innovation from F1 teams, how to design your home office for maximum creativity, spurious link between addiction and creativity, and how scientists are attempting to make you young again. Hope you fine these inputs useful and you get to share it with others. A Simple Model For Entrepreneurial Risk Taking Entrepreneurship is essentially about enter

I am delighted to share with you that my book, Design Your Thinking, has sold over 10,000 copies worldwide. I have created a resource centre for the book, www.DesignYourThinking.in. It features relevant videos, articles, case studies and reviews. Hope you get to read the book and find it insightful. In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look at how strong muscles lead to healthy brains, if diversity really enables creativity, the impact of music on creativity, means of meas

Hope you are doing well. Welcome back to Inflexion Point. In service since 2008 and reaching over 20,000 enthusiasts globally. In this edition, based on one of the most detailed studies till date we understand how VCs make decisions, why brain surgery may enhance spirituality, the way sleep influences creativity, why sculptors live longer than painters, and means of developing a strategic mindset. Hope you find this useful. Take care and reflect. How Venture Capitalists m

Welcome back to another edition of Inflexion Point. In this edition, we look at why humans are growing dumb over the years of evolution, if chess masters tend to live longer, means of measuring innovation, the sweet spot of design thinking, and the fourth dimension of design thinking. Hope you find these articles useful. You may access this edition online. Human beings are getting dumber, says study Stanford University researcher Gerald Crabtree suggests that unintelligent

Welcome back to another edition of Inflexion Point. In this edition, we explore if Elon Musk has a strategy, why Google's AI chatbot seems sentient, whether morning routines kill creativity, how meditation can make you more creative, and the right age to launch a venture. Hope you find these curated pieces insightful. Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Many wonder if Musk, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the recent times, has a plan for his approach or is he just go

In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look at why we don't remember being born, gender differences in creativity, how running develops mental toughness, using fiction to shape company's strategy, and the effect of war on creativity. Hope you enjoy reading these articles. Why You Can’t Remember Being Born Most people can’t remember events from the first few years of their lives, typically till the age of 3, a phenomenon known as 'infantile amnesia'. However, infants do form

Hope you are doing well. In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look at how procrastination fuels creativity, means of memory formation in the brain, what criminals can teach us about creativity, why Airbnb is disruptive innovation and Uber is not, and a case of reading fiction. Why procrastination can help fuel creativity The novelist Agatha Christie notes, “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possib

Welcome back to Inflexion Point, after a gap of about five months. I was away from work, but closer to life and got recharged in the process. Hope you too had an eventful time. One update from my end is that my book Design Your Thinking is now available in the audio format at Audible and Google Play. It's recorded in my voice and I hope this makes them more accessible. Do check it out and reflect. In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look at the effect of oxytocin and do

In this edition, we look at the means to increase your attention span, how engineers adopt mindfulness to develop divergent thinking skills, what Apple's Tim Cook has to say about the future of innovation, occasions when mindlessness can be more useful than mindfulness, and the power and pitfall of gamification. How to coach your brain to increase your attention span We are perpetually deprived of attention and it has two sources: internal and external. One of the biggest in

Hope you are doing well. In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look at what's common between God, quantum mechanics, and consciousness, the way National Geographic goes about strategic planning, the power and perils of intuition, why the computer is a wrong analogy for the human brain, and why our brain is shrinking over the past 20,000 years. Hope you find the content useful. Take care and do reflect. -- What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common If yo

This edition of Inflexion Point is dedicated to creativity: your creativity peaks in your 20s and 50s, insights from the world's youngest TED speaker, inside Google-X, why creativity predicts a longer life, and ways to train your brain to be more creative. Hope you find the content meaningful and actionable. Do write back with your review. Creativity peaks in your 20s and 50s A study of Nobel Prize winners suggests that there are two peaks of creativity - 20s and 50s, and i

In this edition of Inflexion Point, we look into how Netflix reinvented HR, Amazon's way of fostering experimentation and learning, how astronauts deal with mundane tasks in space, why psychiatry needs spirituality, and prototyping insights from Google. A real mix of topics here, but hope you find it fresh and useful. -- How Netflix reinvented HR Netflix is consistently rated as one of the most innovative companies around and a class disruptor. A key contributor is its unique

Hope you are doing well, and bravely battling the difficult times. Welcome back to Inflexion Point, the monthly on interesting reads from the domains of innovation, creativity, and technology. In this edition, we discuss how your language may shape your chess playing skills, the Jewish practice of Shabbat and its impact on creativity, the link between dopamine and creativity, how Google and IDEO encourage psychological safety at the workplace, and some of the people practice

Welcome to the anniversary edition of Inflexion Point (previously Inflection Point). The newsletter started in 2008 when I was an Innovation Evangelist with Wipro, and over the last 13 years, it has grown into a community of over 18,000 recipients across industries, countries, and interests. In this edition, we explore the cultural issues with Boeing that led to the 737 Max disasters, how AI is transforming the creative industries, HDFC's Aditya Puri on innovation and custome

Welcome back to Inflexion Point, your monthly from the realms of innovation, creativity, technology, and strategy. In this edition, we talk of how mindfulness can backfire in certain situations, testing how emotionally intelligent you are, how country culture influences innovation, testing your creative potential, and understanding the role of hormones in storytelling. Hope you find this edition useful. Do write back. When mindfulness can backfire Programs on mindfulness tr

Bringing another edition of Inflexion Point. It covers the relation between mental illness and genius, how a paradoxical mindset is a key to success, the way Apple is organized for innovation, Jeff Bezos on the importance of experimentation, Satya Nadella on how empathy is core to innovation, the way Infosys is scaling design thinking, Paytm's approach of customer-centricity, how IndiGo is balancing customer-centricity with operational excellence, and why Cristopher Nolan to

Hello, By no means a remarkable year, 2020, but it was certainly instructive. Here're the top pics from the space of innovation, creativity, culture, digital, leadership and technology from the year. Hope you find this compilation useful. Also check out the previous compilations here: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. Take care and have a 'different' year ahead. -- Innovation Taking the measure of innovation (McKinsey & Co) Building a culture of experime

Welcome back to Inflexion Point. In this edition, we look at reasons for dipping creativity scores in kids, the most influential TED Talks on creativity, how world's leading innovators are spending their money, the enduring importance of writing, if Netflix can sustain its innovative culture, whether encouraging employees to display their personal photos at workplace encourage ethical behavior, impact of coffee on creativity, what leaders think of post-pandemic workplace, an

Welcome back to Inflexion Point. In this edition, we look at Michelin's bottom-up approach to innovation, six problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times, surprising habits of original thinkers, Accenture's FORM model for design thinking, and best books on design thinking. I hope you find this edition useful. Harnessing everyday genius In 2012, the French multinational Michelin started a program for employee empowerment-- responsabilisation -- a bottom-up approach for employ