Thought Leadership

The biggest Thought Leadership Honour  The Nobel Prize (NP) is the biggest recognition of Thought Leadership in that field.  The NP for Physics 2020 has been awarded to 3 people of whom Roger Penrose is the main recipient. The NP Committee states that Penrose has been awarded for the “discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” What does it mean? This statement actually means that “Leadership of Ideas” are like the chains. The longer the chain the wider it has the reach It hints at the proposition that “Nothing is Original Per se”. Everything is built one upon the other structures of Ideas Penrose discovery affirms Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & links it to many other theories of Astro-Physics Penrose discovery is not in isolation but in conjugation to already existing Ideas Thoughts are built upon connected thoughts. Ideas are conceived upon existing ideas. Discoveries are made upon discovered realities Civilizations ...

Do not value the Periphery More  “ Whether the history exists or not is doubtful but there is no doubt that the historians exist. ” Thus lamented a great scholar of history once We value the periphery more than the core as it is easily accessible. To understand the crux one has to transcend the margins & that is difficult While learning we tend to get more influenced by the narrator than the Process, Facts & Events itself. This makes us vulnerable to one sided & distorted understanding of the phenomena The Wisdom to Learn  That is why Wisdom teaches us to always isolate the Matter, Narrator & the Phenomena separately Matter & Phenomena definitely has a natural inbuilt connection with each other. But the Narrator is an artificial construct to both of them. It has the power to redesign the Matter & Phenomena relationship to the point of falsification So do not attach more value to narrators than what is required. Attach much higher value to yourself to un...

Some Ideas Fade into Oblivion. Why ?  Some great Ideas faded into oblivion. Some ordinary Ideas took the centre stage. Why ? Sometimes the delivery mechanism of the idea is far more important than the idea itself The User Experience UX  We have seen that some Apps & Websites create waves of public recognition and admiration. But others of the same contents & value could not create the same buzz The reason lies in the “User Experience UX” Design In the “Leadership of Ideas” the UX is the communication style & mechanism adopted to catch the imagination Sometimes we over value the Matter & neglect the Phenomena which will sustain that Matter itself Create the Ease of Understanding the Ideas  Once an Idea is established twice the effort must be made to create its UX Design. Content is more likely to be accepted if the ease of accessing & understanding the content is flawless & entertaining Richard Feynman lectures on Physics is far more famous & un...

Newtonian or Quantum Leaders  Some physicists say that there are two worlds. The World of Big Objects (WBO) & the World of Small Objects (WSO) The WBO is the Newtonian world. The WSO is the Quantum world. The WSO does not follow Newtonian laws The WBO is visible, observable & measurable The WSO is not Yet Both of them exists & are the real worlds But for many only WBO is the real world Mostly both the world do not follow each other’s laws, trajectory, motions, styles etc The Leadership Styles Similar is the case of the two distinct worlds of leadership One has a big aura, personality, is eloquent, has presence, always visible & seen in the action The other is quiet, recluse, non domineering, believes mostly in delegation & is non glamorous The first may be casually referred to as the "Leaders of the Newtonian world" The other are the "Leaders of the Quantum world" Both of them provide leadership to organisations they lead But just because WSO is ...

He needs no introduction  Einstein needs no introduction. We expect everything new & fascinating from him. We hardly doubt him on his theories. In fact his every theory is regarded as "scientific gospel" Such is his reputation of imminence But he made the biggest mistake of his life  But he made the biggest mistake in astrophysics by telling the world that the universe is constant. He even introduced his now infamous “Cosmological Constant” into his equation in 1917 But when in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is not static but expanding, the Astrophysics world was stunned The Brilliant Blunder  Einstein accepted his mistake & in 1931 disowned his own Cosmological Constant. A full 14 years after its creation Einstein himself is said to have observed that this was his Biggest Blunder. Some called it the “Brilliant Blunder” Ethical leadership  Here it shows the highest attribute of any leadership. That is to accept their mistakes & not th...

The PSE Mooring  The Quality & Availability of Leadership in any society depend upon its Philosophical, Sociological & Educational (PSE ) moorings History is witness that some societies produced stellar Leadership & that too in abundance. But some societies had a dearth of leadership Leadership is not only about affairs of the state. It means the affairs of our entire life in every sectors of human activity Why some societies had perennial source of innovators ? One of the most important aspect of leadership is in the field of innovation Some societies had perennial sources of innovators. Some did not Why ? Societies that espoused Imagination, creativity, critical thinking, speculation of universe, questioning attitude, entrepreneurship , technology , experimental ecosystem, free thinking, assimilation of ideas, acculturation etc in their PSE discourses produced leadership in innovations Just for an example we cannot expect any society whose educational philosophy is ba...

If You Want to Succeed, Develop Leadership of Mind  If we are asked who Einstein was, almost everyone would answer it correctly.  If asked for what discovery he was awarded the Nobel Prize (NP), most of us will say “The theory of Relativity(TR)” But Einstein received Nobel Prize for the “Photoelectric Effect(PE)” & not for t he theory of Relativity. Why ? Henri Bergson Disputes Einstein TR  The Philosopher Henri Bergson disputed Einstein’s  The theory of Relativity  and said that it belonged more to the realms of Philosophy than Physics The Nobel Prize committee accepted Bergson’s argument. That is why  The theory of Relativity was not considered as a theory of Physics by the Nobel Prize Committee   Albert Einstein became a cult figure worldwide for  The theory of Relativity  & not for the  Photoelectric Effect(PE) Even during the Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he talked about   The theory of Relativity   ...