Mitchell has been a close friend for more than a decade. A few years ago, we both became business partners in a book publishing venture called THiNKaha. It has been a wonderful journey so far. Over the last decade, Mitchell has been helping hundreds of experts go from being an expert to being a Guru…. Continue reading
Posts Tagged → Kiruba Shankar
Announcing CEREBRATE #3 – Looking for Nominations
The time has come to announce the next CEREBRATE event – CEREBRATE Silicon Valley #3 Kavitha (founder of MySizeFinder and my wife) I organized two CEREBRATE events in Silicon Valley (CEREBRATE #1 in July 2010 and CEREBRATE #2 in January 2011). Both the events were memorable and rather than trying to describe it here, you can… Continue reading
Announcing CEREBRATE 2011; Looking for Nominations
First of all, Happy New Year to all of you. May 2011 be the best and the biggest so far. Like all of you, I am looking forward to 2011 with my eyes wide open. For many of you, I am sure 365 days are not sufficient to complete everything you have on your plate. So… Continue reading
CEREBRATE Silicon Valley 2010 – Request for Nominations
CEREBRATE Silicon Valley 2010 happens during July 30 – Aug 1, 2010 at Mount Madonna. The event begins late Friday afternoon and ends on Sunday afternoon. CEREBRATE (brain-child of my friend Kiruba Shankar) is an event like no other. The event typically begins with no agenda and quickly develops into a a series of conversations… Continue reading
Sandalwood Trees – A Simple Story on Awareness
When I was in India last time, Kiruba Shankar shared this wonderful story with me. A king and his troops were going through a forest. The King saw an old man cutting trees. Taking pity on him, he asked the Minister to give that old man an acre of sandalwood trees. The Minister took care… Continue reading
CEREBRATE – A Real Mindshare Experience
How long do you think it will take for 22 people to introduce themselves? How about just over 2 days? This was (almost) what happened at the CEREBRATE2010 event late last month (detailed write-up on Cerebrate blog here) CEREBRATE is the brain child of Kiruba Shankar and it follows an Unconference format. I was so… Continue reading
Mini Saga #52 – Purpose
I spent a few days last week with my friend Kiruba Shankar and his family. We talked a lot over these few days. Right next to Kiruba’s home, I saw hundreds of nursery plants and Kiruba told me a real-life story related to this nursery plants. That story touched my heart and inspired me to… Continue reading
The Present
Photo Courtesy: jmb1977 on Flickr A few days ago, I had a delightful dinner conversation with Mitchell Levy and Kiruba Shankar. We talked a LOT and covered many things. A story about a “Present” shared by Mitchell totally touched my heart. Here it is in his own words. This happened when D (Mitchell’s son) was… Continue reading
Real-time and creative crowdsourcing at work!!
Talked about an example of creativity very recently. Here is one more brilliant example This is the photo from a recently concluded iSummit. Please watch the art work in the background. It is not part of the building. This was a painting on the canvas created by attendees. Real-time design crowdsourcing at it’s best. Source:… Continue reading