Deaf Frog Story and Reinvention
We welcome the author of Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, Frank Barrett to share innovation and leadership lessons from Jazz.
In large bureaucratic organisations, those kept alive by government bailouts, state-run organisations or indeed some semi-states almost all of the energy is depleted by maintenance, while little or none remains for meaningful growth.Â
Straying Across Swim lanes, The FunSaver Effect
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies” with Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West’s research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.

“The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it’s selling.”— Peter F. Drucker
In “Restoring the Soul of Business”, Rishad Tobaccowala helps us discover how to extract meaning from data and see poetry in the plumbing. This book recognizes that while our world is increasingly filled with digital, silicon-based, computing objects, it is populated by people who remain analogue, carbon-based, feeling creatures.
Failure and catastrophe can provide a huge impetus and opportunity in stimulating transformation, new ideas, and new directions in business and in one’s personal life. Sometimes a storm, while devastating in the moment is exactly what we need to shake us from stagnation.Â
This book tackles corporate-startup partnering in three parts. The Why, The How and The Where. In part one, our guest gave an overview of his over 15 years of research, which involved over 400 interviews with corporate managers, startup entrepreneurs, and other individuals involved in corporate-startup partnering and in part 1, he introduced some of the key players who placed the way to the Microsoft gorilla learning to dance with startups and … vice versa. We welcome back the author of “Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups” Shameen Prashantham.