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Pavan Soni

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ARTICLES BY PAVAN SONI

(from left) Cern director-general Fabiola Gianotti. Photo: AFFP, Steve Jobs. Photo: Bloomberg, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Photo: AP

It’s not the people but the routines that make up a company’s work culture

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Intuit founder Scott Cook built robust routines in the company that fostered innovation. Photo: AFP

Robust routines impact company culture more than innovative talent

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Jeff Bezos believes in increasing the number of experiments. Photo: Mint

Opinion | Asymmetric incentives have the power to push for innovation

3 min read . 02 Sep 2021

Opinion | Innovation is not enough to sell a product, timing matters as well

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Steve Jobs often insisted innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.

A clear head, a deep heart and thick skin will help raise your creativity

2 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Discipline comes through standardization of repeated tasks. (Photo: Waseem Andrabi/HT)

Opinion | What special forces can teach founders about creativity and discipline

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Opinion | Why selling an idea to the boss or investor needs political skills

4 min read . 01 Sep 2021

The heady cocktail of creativity and cognitive bias in today’s workplace

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Why you need to break up with your pattern of sameness to survive the AI age

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

A prototyping mentality also necessitates investments in terms of hard resources, time and opportunity cost (iStock)

For innovation in the office, cut your team some slack

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

To fight the coronavirus spread, give artificial intelligence a chance

3 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Photo: Twitter@ShashiTharoor

Opinion | Why our love for jugaad can backfire

2 min read . 01 Sep 2021

How to hire creative people, fix problems in a crisis

2 min read . 27 Aug 2021

Opinion | Open innovation can solve problems of the future

2 min read . 27 Aug 2021

To understand a problem, it is important to stay with it for a sufficiently long time.istockphoto

For creative solutions, slow and deliberate thinking is the key

3 min read . 12 Jan 2021

A boy sketches a painting in a classroom (istock)

What the arts and sciences bring to India’s innovation table

3 min read . 27 Aug 2020

How being bored out of your mind can make you more creative

3 min read . 17 Jul 2019

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