Rishad Tobaccowala
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Rishad Tobaccowala's articles

  1. Data & Insights

Leveraging Waste.

Sometimes to make a point one needs to combine humor with some graphic visualization to break through. Here are three examples that leverage “waste”. The turd on the table The grass is greener because it is fertilized with Bullshit. No Flatulence does not smell like Chanel 5. 1.The turd on the table. What is a […]
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Vagabonding.

Vagabonding is an outlook on life. Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Vagabonding is about taking an extended time-out from our normal life-six weeks, four months, two years-to travel the world on your own terms. Vagabonding is not a […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Both Sides Now !

The most successful organizations and leaders are rarely defeated. They defeat themselves. Three common symptoms of SDD or ‘self-defeat disease” are: a) the inability to anticipate new competition, b) a failure to see situation from another perspective, c) self delusion due to a bubble of filtered thinking buttressed by sycophantic deputies. One simple exercise to […]
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  1. Data & Insights

A Company of One.

It is projected that in 2027, 86.5 million people will be freelancing in the United States making 50.1 percent of the population. A combination of five forces is driving this re-configuring of the workforce: Aging: In the United States 10,000 people turn 65 every day and many of this group continue to work because they […]
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  1. Data & Insights

5 Keys to Ensure Professional Relevance.

Professionals across the world, across industries and across all levels (but particularly middle to senior executive levels) are grappling with the issue of relevance. 1)    Are our businesses and business models relevant? 2)    Are our organizational designs, incentive plans, and talent relevant? 3)    Are our partners, suppliers, and the way we tap into external resources […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Every Second Counts.

What is your purpose? Is it too late to re-invent yourself? What happens when you come to a fork in the road? How do you motivate a team? What does it mean to care and to have high personal standards? A perspective on all these topics is shared in 30 minutes of some of the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Remaining Relevant in an AI Age.

The history of AI is over 80 years old. You can learn and view its developments here at the online Computer History Museum site. After many ups and downs, false dawns and surviving many winters AI or what Ted Chiang, the author calls “Applied Statistics” has arrived due to a combination of access to swaths […]
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Lamentations of the Modern Manager.

Worked so hard for this corner office with a view. This wonderfully awe-inspiring room. But instead of enjoying my due. Have the same square footage as everyone else on Zoom. As a manager we would monitor and check-in. Now with everyone working anywhere that is in the dust bin. Worked my way up the ladder […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Irresistible!

Image: Mid Journey. Prompt…Imagine what irresistible looks like? Josh Bersin is a legend in the world of Human Resources and Talent. His four decade long career has spanned all the twists and turns and ups and downs of a career from studying to be an engineer at Cornell and Stanford, earning an MBA from the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

On Reading.

Photo “ The Reader” by Alex Timmermans Today’s Large Language Models (LLM’s) which drive AI advances like GPT learn and grow through “reading”. They ingest large data sets and then connect dots, “see” patterns and create relationships while optimizing against learning goals. “Reading” grows their capabilities which allow them to “write” their responses. We respond […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

On Purpose.

Ipsos publishes an award-winning strategic foresight magazine called “What the Future” . Matt Carmichel, What the Future editor and head of the Ipsos Trends & Foresight Lab, recently spoke to me for an article about Purpose which this post is built on. What’s the state of purpose today?  There are three ways to look at […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Focus and Flow

Bryan Wiener is one of the early digital pioneers who has created over half a billion dollars of shareholder value across the many companies he has either co-founded or helped grow and sell. He is best known for his leadership of 360i which he sold to Dentsu and his turnaround of Profitero which he sold […]
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