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Podcast : Nurturing Engineering Talent – For Future Ready

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian June 18, 2019EdTech, Education, Entrepreneurship, Events, Technology

Got an opportunity to participate in a podcast hosted by Ms. Jyothi from Prajvita Knowledge. It was a new experience for me. PFB recorded audio from the podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJclEJJtKWw

IoT Show 2019 | Talk on IoT Skills

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian February 18, 2019Events, Technology

India Electronics Week (IEW) is the flagship annual IoT conference held in Bengaluru which unities the entire electronics industry.This is an annual event, where exhibitors, innovators, designers, manufacturers or sellers…

Book Review : Hit Refresh – The Empathy Quotient

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 15, 2018Book Review, Business, Leadership

Few days back finished reading the book ‘Hit Refresh’ by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It was really a fascinating book, with many takeaways for everyone. Satya’s viewpoints on organizational culture…

Building a self-organizing team: Five key learnings

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 15, 2016Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Startups, Technology

Self Organizing team is the 11th principle of Agile framework. What is a self-organizing team and how to build one? Here are my top-5 learnings.

Book review – The Elephant Catchers

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian May 12, 2015Book Review, Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Startups, Technology

Scaling an entrepreneurial venture takes altogether a different kind of thinking. Here is a book titled 'The Elephant Catchers' by Subroto Bagchi, which deep dives into this important topic for Entrepreneurs. Read on.

IEEE Student Leadership Congress – 2014

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian December 10, 2014Events, Technology

IEEE Bangalore section, in collaboration with Basaveshwar Engineering College (BEC), Bagalkot organized IEEE student Leadership Congress – 2014. About 100+ IEEE student leaders from top engineering colleges of Karnataka were…

Electronics Rocks – 2014

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian November 20, 2014Events, Technology

Been thinking of writing about Electronics Rocks 2014 (eRocks), finally able to pen-down few things. Electronics Rocks - 2014 - Conference For people who don’t know what eRocks, here is…

Idea or Execution?

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian April 15, 2014EdTech, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

After taking up Entrepreneurial path, I have come across many interesting experiences on a daily basis. Every day is filled with unknown or unclear activities with more effort is put…

Right thing in a right way

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian April 21, 2013Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Listening, Management

Recently, I was given an opportunity to discuss ‘business alignment’ with a set of people in my group. To make the session interactive, I asked each one of them what…

Piracy zindabad

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian November 4, 2008Books, Business, India, Innovation8 Comments

Its hardly few weeks since Aravind Adiga's novel 'The white tiger' won the man booker price. Starting this week I am getting emails from vendors like indiaplaza.in, Crossword etc. about…