Below excerpt is from the book On Architecture by Ada Louis Huxtable. An essay published in The Wall Street Journal in 2002. Building tall has a price. From the Tower of Babel to the World Trade Center, doing so can…
Below is an excerpt from an article When the Outrageous Became Mainstream published in Wall Street Journal, published in 2006. Serious studies hold that developments in the arts are due to cosmic shifts in the culture of a time or…
(This is the 3rd in the series of Introverted Leadership) Introverts make great leaders. There is a misunderstanding that Introverts shy away from leadership roles which is not the case. It appears that this is assumed from the fact that…
Everything is as a service, now. SaaS, PaaS, BaaS, IaaS are all in the realm of service. I am fascinated by IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). Who would have ever imagined? Fittingly, Workplace is a service too. We left, industrial…
As a trend we often get hooked on to trend speak. It relieves us from the burden of thinking more deeply. Millennials have been reigning the debates on workplace design for a good amount of time. It’s just that changes…
We usually inhabit three kinds of places, first place as our immediate home, second place as our workplace and third place as a social surroundings which separate the two primary places. Third places usually comprised of cafes, libraries, parks, clubs…
In our workplace, we obsess over and talk a lot about creating a community where we feel we belong or at a minimum efforts are made that the workforce creates a sense of belonging to their workplace, organization, professional fraternity,…
As we enter 2020, there is a lot to look forward to in what is in store for us in workplace. A lot will get left behind, products, ideas, business model, concepts, behaviors, attitudes that no longer serves us. But…
Manhattan’s Landmark Buildings Today written by Ada Louise Huxtable, notable American architectural critic, this article was originally published in Wall Street Journal in 1999 and in the book called On Architecture-Collected Reflections on a Century of Change. It speaks about the cross section…
There has been no better time to talk about diversity and more so now on neurodiversity. We are living in times where the context has shifted rapidly from Industrial era to Knowledge era. And we know that communities thrive on…
