How Elimination Reveals What Truly Matters

A partner at McKinsey once told me about a massive cost-cutting project at a company that used to operate very lavishly. For example, on every floor, this company had multiple large printers. Had you asked, the staff would have probably insisted that every printer was...

There Is No Single Mold for Success

A few years ago, I was at IIT Kanpur to give a talk. And the speaker before me was a brilliant entrepreneur, who had built a billion-dollar company from scratch, AFTER his retirement. And while this gentleman was talking, the students started clapping — not...