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Chef Massimo Botura – The Daily PPILL #115

Chef Massimo Botura – The Daily PPILL #115

From his Wikipedia page, “Massimo Bottura is an Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena, Italy which has been listed in the top 5 at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards since...
Creative destruction – The Daily PPILL #114

Creative destruction – The Daily PPILL #114

Important transformational work is often tied to doing away with the existing Status Quo. Incremental change, the kind that tweaks and optimizes the existing order, can be done without major upheaval. Adding a feature here, making something better there; that...
The one handed keyboard – The Daily PPILL #113

The one handed keyboard – The Daily PPILL #113

When I first heard about this, I was really struck. But it made all the sense. There are more than a million people just in the US living without at least one of their hands, and statistics say that this number will grow by 50,000 every year. It is sad and...
Please, don’t push all the buttons – The Daily PPILL #112

Please, don’t push all the buttons – The Daily PPILL #112

It is really hard, and quite a drag, to go 10, 15 floors up (or down). Two or four flights of stairs, not so much. So if you had the power to design a business building and determine where each of the occupants will reside, Who would you place on the ground floor,...
The Chatbot – The Daily PPILL #111

The Chatbot – The Daily PPILL #111

I am sort of ok with Chatbots, you know, the ones that now popup on websites. Especially if they are really good and provide me with the information that I need. Basically, this would be a chatbot that passes the “Turing test”. If you don’t know...
Bittersweet – The Daily PPILL #110

Bittersweet – The Daily PPILL #110

When you have good people around you, working for you, you want to keep them forever. But one of the most important roles of leaders is to mentor others, and with it, helping them to reach new heights that will some day take them somewhere else. In this process,...