Ideas at Will

7 Hacks to Skyrocket Your Career

In today’s corporate world, we see many examples of people starting their careers at a relatively lower level of hierarchy and still making it to the top. Such examples have brought a massive shift in the mindset of today’s corporate employees. Back in the day, people who worked for a reputed organization that offered complete job security and assured increments year after year with additional perks, considered themselves lucky. In today’s corporate world, most people aspire to reach to the top and earn a kind of pay package that will allow them to live a lifestyle that was earlier enjoyed by only a select few.

September 30, 2017 by miliind

Challenging Assumptions

Watch out! Your assumptions are impeding your creativity

On many occasions, when others grapple with a challenge that seems impossible to crack, creative and innovative people look at the challenge with a different perspective and crack it.

On hindsight, those ideas appear so obvious. People often wonder, “How come I couldn’t see what she/he could?”

September 30, 2017 by miliind

Business Creativity

Idea vs execution…and the winner is…

During many occasions, while interacting with corporate managers, I have sensed a great deal of resistance towards creative ideas. Most of the time, embracing those creative ideas would mean moving out of the comfort zone. But no one likes to admit it. Instead, many managers bring new angle to the discussion – execution. Hence, ‘I believe in execution’ or ‘we first need to improve our execution’ becomes a legitimate reason for staying away from creative ideas.

And to make their point appear more weighty, managers often toss in a common expression — ‘Ideas are dime a dozen, execution is all that matters.’

There has been enough noise created around the topic of ideas vs execution. I don’t want to further add to the noise. But I would like to bring a new dimension to it by asking you a question:
What type of ideas are you executing?

September 30, 2017 by miliind