Gyan Nagpal Quotes & Sayings

In changing times, question everything you take for granted. — Gyan Nagpal

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage — Gyan Nagpal

When your Book of Life is written, will the chapter on work be an anthology of salary slips? — Gyan Nagpal

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems — Gyan Nagpal

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places — Gyan Nagpal

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time. — Gyan Nagpal

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other — Gyan Nagpal

A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident — Gyan Nagpal

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:
freely exchangeable currency. — Gyan Nagpal

A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight — Gyan Nagpal

Best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea.
And this is the age of the idea — Gyan Nagpal

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear "cradle to grave" construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills. — Gyan Nagpal

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints — Gyan Nagpal

The "quality revolution" in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach a
supermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best — Gyan Nagpal

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another — Gyan Nagpal

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics — Gyan Nagpal

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty — Gyan Nagpal

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control — Gyan Nagpal

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips. — Gyan Nagpal

While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global — Gyan Nagpal

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view — Gyan Nagpal

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem." -Gyan Nagpal — Gyan Nagpal