Book review: Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen

Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen by Porus Munshi is a must read. It is book meant to inspire. And if after reading it, you have not moved an inch, well accept that you have the mentality of an employee and enjoy your journey as one throughout. The book is radical. The stories shared are meant to mesmerize you. If the book did move something, you are bound to ask yourself a question: Am i exploring myself to the best of my potential in all area's of my life?

Excerpts from Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen - Porus Munshi

His logic for hiring freshman was that 1. since they were starting out, they would be willing to work on his terms; and 2. experience in this business did not matter. What mattered was a strong desire to come up in life. In fact, experience might even be a disabler when it comes to doing things differently. Those with experience are more used to certain kinds of engagement norms, both at a financial and at a relationship level
Page 62, paragraph 3

Atlas Shrugged

"Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice–it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction–only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human."
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 3, Ch. 1

Parents oh parents

I had the good fortune to visit an exam center that had about 1500 candidates appearing for the CFA examination. These candidates could be aged anywhere between 22 to maybe 60.  The average age would be 26. What's funny is what i see then. Over protective parents. Goodness gracious me! Parents who came to drop their children, parents who would advice their child regarding Do's and Dont's, parents who were standing right at the gate when the exam was over, parents who were discussing with other parents about how hard their child had studied and how many sleepless nights their child had, parents reminding the child 10 times that he should carry the calculator, the passport and the hall - ticket. And all i had to say was Oh My Friking Goodness! Hey you parents, don't you want your 26 years old to grow up or toughen up? Ummm.. why such over protection? God forbid, don't call this "LOVE", you got the experience of love completely messed up. It arises from giving freedom and allowing the person to experience his/her journey. You are doing more harm than good.

Duality

Duality on a third dimensional earth presupposes the existence of parallel consciousness

Growth

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Abraham Lincoln