I love low-profile builders of technology-led and “psychological market share” businesses — hidden champions (Hermann Simon, HBS Press). Businesses and organisations should be designed for Deergha Ayush (long life), which connotes that business is a living entity. The metaphor of life appears in my 2017 book A Biography of Innovations — an idea gets “conceived” (foetus), the idea goes through “adaptation” (childhood), then a “prototype” (adolescence), before emerging as a “product” (young adulthood), which evolves with updates for continued success (maturity) over its life.
On a recent trip to the United States (US), I reconnected with two contemporaries from the
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