Gyan Nagpal

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

In changing times, question everything you take for granted.

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

The __uality revolution_ in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

While mistakes may be local, in today__ connected world embarrassment is global

Experience_, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear __radle to grave_ construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty