A practical guide to problem-solving — BOOK RELEASE 📕 Problem-solving is an innate activity that we undertake everyday. There are many methodologies for it, most of which we use in the professional world. There is however an underlying method for solving problems of any kind. This book presents that method in a simple manner. This week, I released a…

Time is the defining dynamic — There is a popular tale of a farmer. It goes along the lines that the farmer had a horse. One day the horse ran away into the hills. People commiserated with the farmer but he replied “good luck or bad luck, who knows/we will see?”. A few days later, the…

As the Premier League 2021/22 season comes to a close with a dramatic finish at both ends of the table and usual free-scoring games, I look back at what seemed to be a very long season, especially with all the COVID disruptions and World Cup qualifying needing to be adjusted. …

How Klopp’s Liverpool is setting a marker for the future — Liverpool’s signing of Luis Diaz had almost gone unnoticed. The big story of winter transfer window was the task on hand for Newcastle United’s new owners as the club faced a relegation scrap. At the elite end, speculation on the anticipated transfers of Mbappe and Haaland was gathering steam. The…

JOMO? FOMO? Or, should we call it IOMO? — 3 weeks ago, I started an experiment. I stopped reading the news. While I had certain reasons for it, I also wanted to see (and test) if it was possible to exist without reading the news, and what changes as a result? Information Age The Internet heralded the arrival of the Information…

Exposing mis-understandings, mis-applications and mis-appropriations — Lean is an established methodology that has brought transformative operational improvements in many industries. Lean has its roots in Toyota Production System (TPS). A huge credit goes to various authors who have distilled the essence of TPS into Lean concepts which are universal in application, and understandability. While Lean tools…