by john | Mar 14, 2020 | Adversity, Happiness, Life Hacks, Mentors, Motivation, People, Psychology, Recruit, reinvent, Stress, Uncategorized
One of the things I have tried to teach by staff, teams and people I mentor is to have a go and learn from failure. Life is a journey and the process of improvement is to iterate and improve with each cycle when you come across a problem. As Edison said I learnt 10000...
by Manoj Chawla | Aug 20, 2016 | Adversity, Blog, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Leadershio, Mentors, Motivate, Motivation, Organise, People, Recruit, Self Management, Stress, work life balance
I came across this excellent article on Paid vs Unpaid Internships and how large companies and start ups should and should not use internships. I will leave you to make up your own mind about it. Zak Slayback has written it better than I could, so I’d like to...
by Manoj Chawla | Feb 25, 2016 | Adversity, Behaviour Economics, Blog, Happiness, Psychology, thinking slow thinking fast
We often sabotage ourselves. We don’t do this consciously… after all that would not be rational. Too often we chase the wrong things.. and we don’t always know what we want, at least not initially. The business we start is not the business that we...
by Manoj Chawla | Jan 22, 2016 | Adversity, Blog, Design Thinking, Life Hacks, New Business Models
Today, I went to a very interesting talk at the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It was give by Jessica Hayden from the Innovation Academy at UCD. (Thank you Jessica for an excellent presentation). While her talk was about Design Thinking (An approach I recommend to...
by Manoj Chawla | Dec 7, 2015 | Adversity, Behaviour Economics, Cognitive bias, habits, Happiness, Psychology, Self Management, Stress, thinking slow thinking fast
Have you ever wondered how some people show tremendous willpower and why you may sometimes lack the resolve to do so? Would you like amazing willpower to achieve your goals? (Willpower required!) Do you think it is just about drive and willpower, or can we manage...
by Manoj Chawla | Nov 25, 2015 | Adversity, Mentors, Recruit
I’m Possible Spock says “May you live in interesting times” which really sums up what the Star Trek films are all about. The thing about the Star Trek films and the ship Enterprise, is that it is really about discovering yourself and inventing...
