Don't Leave Change to Chance ... Gain the Edge and Beat the Odds

SHARE ON:                        The Caterpillar’s Edge  is a book about embracing change to gain a competitive edge and flourish in today’s global business climate. Its author, Sid Mohasseb, is an adjunct professor, a venture capitalist, a corporate CEO, the former strategic innovation lead in strategy for a conglomerate, a Harvard-trained negotiator, and a featured TED Talk speaker. Sid’s notable expertise is in connecting theory and reality to help people see the curves in the road ahead and to realize their visions for the future. I had an opportunity to sit down with Sid to understand his view on innovation. How did you come up with premise for  The Caterpillar’s Edge ? While every industry is going through significant change and facing considerable innovation and challenges, we plan and strategies in the same manner we did decades ago: we follow a structured budgeting proc...

The following letter was sent to a board member (Steve D.) of a manufacturing company in India who kindly shared it with me. I have masked / replaced the name of the company and individuals to ensure privacy. Additionally, the LATEST PROGRESS based on a Sept. 26 email also follows.   ___________________________________________    Dear Steve,   I wish to thank you for gifting me the book "Caterpillar's Edge". This book may transform our company into a success.   Initially, when I started reading the book, I felt that it was indeed for big companies and my interest was more from intellectual view point.  However, as I got into the thick of it, I realized that I could relate this book to the story or lack of it at MASKED CO. I started having intense discussion with Vikram as well as Avinash as what is truly wrong with MASKED CO. and what is missing. Since Vikram is also reading this book, he could also relate to the same.   We realized that ...