At both of my ventures, Better and Netek, we operate by many key principles, one of them is avoiding stupidity; which is to avoid bad decisions. So instead of asking ourselves,”how do we make good decisions?; we ask: how do we avoid making bad ones?
Category Archives: entrepreneurship
Demystifying Design Thinking with Sunil Malhotra

Just like innovation and artificial intelligence, design thinking is a buzzword. There is a cottage industry of practitioners who, with good intention or not, are hoping to get their pockets full from enterprises who want a step by step process that reduces the uncertainty behind innovation.
5 Leadership Principles For Anyone Leading Others

Leadership, CEO, managers, management, innovation, where all foreign words to me when I was 18 years old. But that all changed during and after my FedEx Ground experience, which you can hear about in the video below:
Game-Changer’s 10 Most Popular Posts of 2017

2017 was a good year in many ways. For one, it was my 10 year anniversary as a blogger! Yes, I’ve been writing Game-Changer since 2007. And as I’ve done in years past, here are the 10 most popular posts of 2017.
6 Books I Read In 2017 That Are Worth Your Time
If you’ve been following me for a long time you know I have a very Hungry Mind. On top of magazines, articles and reports, I read at least 1 book per month; and have gone up to 4 in years past. This year I read 15 books in all, lighter than before but interesting nonetheless.
8 Best Tech Newsletters To Subscribe To

If you have not been keeping up, emerging technologies will drive the Next Economy. Which means that in the future, you’re either a digital business or a dead business.
With that said, business leaders need to keep up with the pace of technology because exponential technologies require exponential leadership.
How? Beyond blogs and podcasts to cover your heart’s desire on all tech related news and topics; there are also newsletters. To start, see here the News Weekly USA news.
Your Need For Certainty Kills Innovation

Innovation is as much about attitude and perspective as it is about process. It’s an uncertain path that tests women and men’s mental and emotional fortitude; it’s not for everybody.
As innovators we have fight against human nature; our own and that from our fellow humans. The fear of not knowing is the main enemy of this story, which takes constant vigilance and engagement.