October 2025 – Re-inventing by @rishad
2 posts published by Rishad during October 2025| Re-inventing by @rishad
2 posts published by Rishad during October 2025| Re-inventing by @rishad
All images via prompts to MidJourney The Power of Education. Three of the most powerful forces in the world are a) gravity b) compound interest and c) the bond between a mother and a child. They have always existed driven by the power of science, math and nature. An even more powerful force than these is education. Education lifts us up while gravity holds us down. Education compounds even more than compound interest in that it increases not just returns to money but returns to living. Educat...| Re-inventing by @rishad
The most popular edition of the 268 posts of this Substack so far is Rethinking Presentations on how to put together powerful presentations with only 9 slides! The third most popular post…| Re-inventing by @rishad
A. Leadership. Leadership can be distilled down to this: Leaders acknowledge, face and communicate reality. People follow people and not titles since titles are bestowed while leadership is earned. The six characteristics of great leaders are capability, integrity, empathy, vulnerability, courage and inspiration. Reality. A key to leadership is to solve challenges and address problems. This requires confronting issues versus looking away or hoping some form of magical thinking will make them ...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Image by Midjourney to the prompt “fear”. If there is one emotion that is increasingly widespread across the world it is that of fear. It is particularly acute in the world of business at every level and in every industry. Fear beats like a second heart beneath an outward veneer of confidence. What we fear at work is multi-faceted and multi-modal. Here are just a few factors: a) Will our jobs be automated away by AI ? A very senior person who I respect in the world of tech wondered if the...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Strategy is “future competitive advantage”. What will the people we sell to need in the future? Who will we be competing with in the future? Given these people needs and competitors what advantage …| Re-inventing by @rishad
Joy. A definition of success is the freedom to spend time in ways that gives one joy. Joy is more than happiness which is often transitory as it ebbs and flows with external events. Joy is more akin to contentment and satisfaction. Some believe it is momentary suggesting we have “flashes of joy”. The joy that comes with deep satisfaction and contentment however endures and its contours do not waver with the oscillations of the transient. Experience, time, and observation reveals there are...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Image using MidJourney This Friday while flying back from a couple of speaking engagements in Sweden with European C level execs in the Real Estate and Marketing industries, I calculated it was my …| Re-inventing by @rishad
1. Change sucks. When one has to change one has to unlearn and learn. Twist oneself into new shapes. Make mistakes. Look foolish. Be uncertain. Change is not easy nor good. It sucks. But irrelevance is even worse. 2. Inner Dinosaur Disease ( IDD) All of us suffer from Inner Dinosaur Disease. We ourselves struggle to change and so we do the IDD 2-Step Step one is the Deflection Dance. We blame our inability to change on our bosses, a terrible work culture, stuck in the mud clients, P and L pre...| Re-inventing by @rishad
Selling is critical not just to business but to life. We all need to advocate for our point of view, convince others to align with us and to separate ourselves and our companies from others thoroug…| Re-inventing by @rishad
mage by MidJourney One of the dozen topics I have written on over the past five years is how to be more effective. You can access all the best pieces in section 4 here: https://rishadtobaccowala.com/100 The 3 keys to being effective are 1) leveraging the only asset one has which is time, 2) making sure that every interaction has the ability to be a tattoo moment, and 3) soaring through feedback. 1. Time is the essential asset. Franz Kafka wrote “The meaning of life is that it stops”. How ...| Re-inventing by @rishad
( View from downtown campus of Northwestern University Medill School.) The Future of Work Summit by Northwestern University’s Medill School in Chicago was held yesterday (Saturday, July 26 ) and br…| Re-inventing by @rishad
