Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was India’s most prolific civil engineer, statesman, water resource builder, and economist. This century’s foremost nation-builders, Visvesvaraya, was usually an automatic choice when governments needed help in solving critical issues. He notably served the then Kingdom of Mysore, Kingdom of Hyderabad, and the British Indian administration. Sir MV, as he was fondly…

“Learning is ordinary; Teaching is eXtraOrdinary.” – Naveen Lakkur Acquiring understanding, gaining knowledge, and learning a new skill, behavior, and attitude is part of life. People learn through success and failure. Learning is part of everyday life, sort of a routine. Learning helps people apply them in their life to be better versions of themselves.…

“Others have you as an option is ordinary; Others having no option other than you is extraordinary.” – Naveen Lakkur People work hard so that they can provide for their families. However, many people with the same or similar skillsets can do the same job giving recruiters a choice from the talent pool. On the…

This edition is about roles and responsibilities. The featured article has twin elephants Appy and Proppy discuss roles and responsibilities. The articles from the web include nurturing innovation in companies, taking responsibilities, and the importance of innovation teams. Read the magazine

“Having good intentions is ordinary; A good intention complemented by good deeds is eXtraOrdinary.” – Naveen Lakkur Hardworking people start their projects and tasks with the best of intentions. Some people go a Little Extra, complement their intentions by doing the good deed of making their work useful for others. The world has people who…

“Being HiTech is ordinary; Using HiTech to create HiTouch is eXtraOrdinary.” – Naveen Lakkur Technology and human advancement have gone hand in hand for centuries. People who have no problem in learning to adapt to the HiTech ways are able to improve their quality of life. We are also seeing a lot of technological advancements…

Innovation is a natural process. For example, the human brain is a product of evolution. Nature has gone through many stages of evolution for the human brain to be what it is today, creative, innovative, and emotive. In fact, every organism in nature has innovated. Nature has indeed taught us a lot about innovation. Companies…

“If you want to start anything, it’s ordinary; If you can lead in the line that you started, that’s eXtraOrdinary.” – Naveen Lakkur It is appreciable that self-starters begin a new project or a new venture on their own. Only a few people take the lead and make people follow their lead in any project…