The Buddha said that nothing exists on its own and everything changes. His students called these the two core truths of all existence i.e. emptiness and impermanence. …
Imagine Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius coming together and writing one single book that represents the combination of their philosophies. Now imagine a one-pager version of this book. How much of it could you comprehend, let alone practice?
Find your leadership style and avoid the fake leadership traps
Leadership comes in many shapes and forms, sizes, titles or lack thereof, and has a profound impact on whoever and whatever follows. As a founder, I’m most interested in leadership on a day to day basis, with one over-arching goal, that my startup thrives. …
The One Objective to Establish a Winning Startup and Product Culture
Last week I had a conversation with a couple of friends about the issues they’ve been facing at their startup. These friends, like many others, have been affected by CoViD-19 related business impact, as well as the Work From Home situation.
As you can guess, their biggest issues have been…
A way to visualize your product roadmap and align your team
Over the course of my career, I have had the pleasure of building multiple products from scratch, and learnt strategies that help the process of building a new product and also lead to a highly productive and streamlined experience for all stakeholders involved. Story mapping is one of those.
Lessons from big money tech failures
An opinionated analysis of why some hyped products failed
Last year, I was talking to a team of German automotive executives about modern ways of iterative working, challenging the prevailing belief that perfect pre-planning backed by big money will always be a clear winner. I used a bunch of highly hyped tech failures to drive the point home. The…
S.A.M. the self-leadership framework
A self-leader does everything that a leader should do, but for herself. She plans, motivates, listens, and cares for herself. She uses the S.A.M. framework to put her efforts into perspective by focussing on Skills, Attitude, and Mindfulness as the core of her self-leadership practice.
What comes to your mind when you think of leadership?
Get real about roadmaps and plans
Beyond Gantt Charts and releases
If this was 40 years ago and you were doing a cross-country road trip from the American east coast to the west coast, you’d probably have a roadmap. You might be checking it every few days depending on the weather and the news you picked up along the way. …
CARPA — The startup advice evaluation framework
How to separate good advice from bad, as an entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is tough and full of unknowns… Deciding to start a company is like going to school on purpose, every single day, knowing that there’s much you don’t know. …
Mindfulness: Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgement.
That’s how Jon Kabbat-Zinn, the creator of MBSR (Mindfulness-based stress reduction) defined mindfulness.
While this definition is functional or descriptive, it is also an invitation to practice and come to our senses, again and again.
Mindfulness has been shown…
Balach
Founder of https://epek.app — passionate about products and people, and helping them live meaningfully and well.
