Category: Interview

When working from home, you need a different mindset from working in the office

Till the beginning of the pandemic you, your boss or your team are still trying to replicate the way you work at the office.But remote means you must think of yourself as a small business owner, with your boss as your client. The book titled Remote, Inc  shows you a new approach, based on the mindset and habits of people who flourish while working outside the office some or all of the time. Interview with Robert C Pozen. Hi Robert, why did we write this book? Robert C Pozen: Because millions of people started working from home during the pandemic,and they need practical guidance on how to do so -- to maximize theirproductivity and job satisfaction.     What is the most important idea in the book? Robert C Pozen: When working from home, you need a different mindset from working in the office.Don't think of yourself as an employee who takes daily directions...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: February 24, 2021

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The question that kills to David Allen

The GTD method, authored by David Allen, is acclaimed as one of the best personal management systems. We wanted to go further asking to the master of personal organization a question that kills: Is the GTD method appropriate for kids? David Allen: Yes. At least as soon as a kid can understand and respond to these questions: What would you like to experience/have true/have happen for this party/vacation/wall decoration/homework? Great. And what’s the next thing you/I/we need to do, to make that happen? …and if they’re old enough, add this one: And so, how can we make sure you/I/we take that action and make it happen? That’s GTD. We’ve seen parents home-schooling their kids as young as four years old with these questions; and the kids are quite responsive and enthused, and they start to get things done. B.J.: Thanks for your answer David. D.A.: Thank you...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: January 21, 2021

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Recognize that the organization where you live, work, and play shapes how people think, act, and feel

Given that organizations have been shaping how people think, act, and feel, let’s decide what is the best options to frame the work of million people. Let’s explore emerging organizational species that draws on dozen of innovative insights with Dave Ulrich, co-author of Reinventing the Organization with Arthur Yeoung. Interview. Hi Dave, so why did you write this book… now? Dave Ulrich: I got into this career because a passion for “organizations” that shape how people think, act, and feel.  I have always been intrigued with how to define and create an organization that creates, delivers, and captures value for all stakeholders.  My first book (in 1990) was Organization Capability where we redefined organization less as structure and more as capabilities. Since then, we have done 10 books redefining organization. This recent book builds on this earlier work and highlights an emerging...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: December 1, 2020

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Finding your flow as an entrepreneur doesn’t happen automatically

All business owners face a set of issues sooner or later. To seek out like-minded founders who can support them mentally and emotionally when they hit roadblocks is critical. In the meantime, a book can really help. Interview with the author, accustomed to success, Mona Bijoor. Hi Mona, so why did you write this book… now?  Mona Bijoor: I’ve spent the past couple of years advising hundreds of first-time founders, and my conversations with them were the inspiration for Startups and Downs: The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs. Through advising founders, I found that there is a set of issues that all business owners face at one time or another. But these common challenges—pitching investors, losing key employees, dealing with the competition—aren’t something people automatically know how to deal with from the start. In Startups and Downs: The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs, I share...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: November 6, 2020

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China will soon export this New Retail technology and ecosystem to other parts of the world

China is the crucidle of a New Retail. To figure out the findamentals of this retail ecosystem that builds online and offline in a unified way that features the consumer, let's listen to Ashley Dudarenok, the elegant and spirited co-author of the book New Retail Born in China Going Global. Interview. Hi Ashley, so why did you write this book… now?  Ashley Dudarenok: China’s New Retail is super important. It’s about building a retail ecosystem that builds online and offline in a unified way that features the consumer. My co-author Michael Zakkour and I wrote it in 2019 - when New Retail was in the headlines and just starting to get international attention and recognition as something “beyond just omni channel”. It has positioned retail as a service where customers can buy whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want it. The shopping experience for consumers is seamless as...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, China, Interview    Date: November 5, 2020

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Our experience of work is shaped by the relationships we forge with others

When an ex-Twitter VP write a book, it is to change the world of work. In his book The Joy of Work, Bruce Daisley shares the fruits of his discoveries in 30 succinct tips that range across all aspects of 21st-century office life and that combine inspiration, empirically tested insight and down-to-earth practical answers in equal measure.  What if we interview him. Let's go. Hi Bruce, so why did you write this book… now? Two years ago I was a manager in trouble. My team who had once been motivated, inspired and happy had suddenly become dead behind the eyes. They were burned out and dejected. Worse still many of them were quitting (often with no job to go to). It would certainly be possible for me to say 'this is due to the company, this isn't my fault' or 'the economy is suffering and investors are worried about our business' but to be honest I knew that we'd had bad times before and this time I...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: October 30, 2020

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Will privateers replace pirates on the digital transformation oceans

You are not Elon Musk! You are not a hero here to save the company – and you are not working in a company full of idiots. The tone and approach you take within the company will make your attempts at transformation easier or harder, declare Tendayi Viki in his last book. Interview. Hi Tendayi, so why did you write this book… now? Tenday Viki: For many years, we have been fighting the battle of convincing leaders that innovation should be an important part of how they do business. I believe that this argument is now coming to an end. Most leaders are now fully convinced that innovation is the best way for their companies to create new growth. Now the question is slowly shifting towards how we actually get things done. How do we make innovation a repeatable process within the company? This is why I wrote Pirates In The Navy. The book addresses questions such as: How do we get our company ready for...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: October 23, 2020

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How do I gain attention is the biggest asset that somebody can have in their career

Helping celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Xzibit, Charles Barkley, Michael Strahan, super model Adriana Lima, and pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, Brendan Kane equally learnt how to get one million followers in only one month, for him. Let’s offer a little micro-attention to listen to him about his book: One Million Followers. Hi Brendan, why did I write this book now? Brendan Kane: Well, I really feel that there is people all over the world that have the ability to transform it in a positive way and most of these people are just struggling to get their voices to be heard. They are either being suppressed or their voices are not being heard because they just don’t have the strategy, the knowhow because we live in a world where there are 60 billion messages sent out on digital platforms each day. It is a very, very know easy and oversaturated world. So, oftentimes the people that are brilliant...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Fashion, Interview    Date: October 10, 2020

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Reclaim the present in service of a different future

Let's use history as our guide to learn from social movements and thinkers from the past as to how they tackled various problems of politics and power. Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital technology, To better understand, we have interwieved Lizzie O'Shea who authored Future Histories. Deep dive into a book that sounds like an oxymore.  Hi Lizzie, so why did you write this book… now? Lizzie O'Shea : Digital technology gives us a glimpse of how we could organise the world better, but too often it is not doing what we want. Too often it is just about creating billionaires while immiserating billions, privatizing our psychological spaces instead of building connection, building devices of surveillance rather than empowerment. My motivation is that we are squandering the potential of the digital revolution.   This is...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: June 25, 2020

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Will you carry your it-business, soon in your it-bag?

If you are feeling trapped in a job that's just not you, it's time to break out that career cage. But how to find the work-life balance that fits who you really are? Beyond fashion, an inspriring, unconventional and practical guide exists: Be A Free Range Human,authored by Marianne Cantwell. Interview with an elegant free ranger, carrying her business in her lap top. Hi Marianne, so why did you write this book… now? Marianne Cantwell: There are many myths about work that need to be busted so people can know what options are really available to them. One of them is that a job is your only option, or your safest option. Another is that if you start a business, it has to look, sound and run in a certain way. Both of these have held even very intelligent people back and I wrote this so people could see the options available to them and create a career that fits who they are.  It's also...

 

Posted By:    Category: Blog, Interview    Date: May 21, 2020

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No need to annoy an AI & Data champion

There was no need to annoy Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, Vice-Président Global Cognitive, AI & Data Leader for Financial Services at IBM. Hearing too much nonsense about Artificial Intelligence, he armed himself with a frank and direct pen to write his truths on the topic, in a book entitled “AI will be what you make of it” (L’IA sera ce que tu en feras). Lovers of tongue-in-cheek interviews and shock formulas, these next few lines are for you.   Hi Jean-Philippe, so why did you write this book... now?  I’d had enough! For too long, pitches on Artificial Intelligence have been either completely alarmist either blessed-yes. They prevent from a real adoption and development of AI. Above all, they take away our sense of responsibility. After more than 10 years of experience in this domain, where I had the chance to carry out projects in the US, Asia and Europe, it was time to share this experience;...

 

Posted By:    Category: AI, Blog, Interview    Date: February 18, 2020

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Can an AI teach English to us?

What if an AI could teach English to everyone? This is the underlying assumption behind a test made in collaboration between MIT Auto-Id Lab and ABA English's linguists. For the first time, the Amazon's assistant Alexa has been used to simulate a human conversation in order to discover proficiency in English and practice speaking.   For people learning English all over the world, who wish to discover their proficiency in English and practice speaking, the English Test for Alexa Echo Show, is the only English-language proficiency test based on interacting vocally with Alexa which assesses your level of English by simulating a human conversation. Contrary to all other digital language level tests available today, English Test on Alexa is the first test to assess English proficiency by simulating a human conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEvAXD05cg 1. Hi Maria Perillo and Brian...

 

Posted By:    Category: AI, Blog, Interview    Date: May 28, 2018

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