BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) is a podcast show where I focus on talking about the best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders (from various walks of life, mostly business, tech), deconstructing and teasing out their routines, habits, tactics, techniques, and the best advice or life lesson they’ve ever received -- that YOU the listeners can use and apply to your own life and work. We’re more interested in learning about things my guests have NEVER said or shared before.
BALL! (Best Advice & Life Lessons) Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Srini Raghavan
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Podcast Overview
BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) is a podcast show where I focus on talking about the best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders (from various walks of life, mostly business, tech), deconstructing and teasing out their routines, habits, tactics, techniques, and the best advice or life lesson they’ve ever received -- that YOU the listeners can use and apply to your own life and work. We’re more interested in learning about things my guests have NEVER said or shared before.
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9/22/2020
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Recent Episodes
September 10, 2023
Best Advice & Life Lessons with Vetri Vellore
This episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) podcast features Vetri Vellore - a serial entrepreneur who has built successful products and businesses. Vetri was the CEO and founder of the successful OKR software startup, Ally.io. After Microsoft acquired Ally.io in 2021, which launched as Microsoft Viva Goals. He has helped thousands of leaders and teams leverage the OKR framework, continuing the mission to bring purpose, happiness and productivity to work. A few nuggets from and lessons from the episode: -Building great products: Differentiate products from competitors by listening to customer insights, creating frictionless and integrated user experience, attention to smallest detail. -Being a better leader: Balance optimism and paranoia as and face rejections with tenacity and conviction. -Have core values: to guide everything you do. His own values are transparency, trust, excellence and customer obsession. The notion of customers first, business, team and then self. -Hiring decisions: First alignment of values, potential to be 10x better and unstoppable attitude. -Prioritize family: Create habits to balance work and personal life, like waking up at 4:30am so he can spend the evenings with his family. -Writing gratitude journal and affirmations: Really helps lead a better life. -Early career advice: Dream big, pay attention to details, focus on learning (vs. earning) early on. If you enjoyed the podcast, please hit subscribe. @SriniRaghavan
October 8, 2022
Best Advice & Life Lessons with Ravi Venkatesan
This podcast episode of BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Ravi Venkatesan. Ravi is the board chair of Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, founder of Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, a coalition which aims to create 10M entrepreneurs in India by 2030. He was previously the chairman of Microsoft India, chairman of the board of Bank of Baroda, and co-chairman of the board of Infosys. He is also the UNICEF Special Representative for Young People and Innovation. His best advice and key lessons from the episode: On mindset - Growth mindset, agency, responsibility, abundance - What leadership in the 21st century means, how to be a leader Navigating your career - crucible experiences, passion economy, catching a wave How to avoid career treadmills, regrets and envy How much is enough, how to retire or not Measure of life, success, wealth and happiness On mentors, role models Developing courage and more. BALL podcast is a show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received. If you enjoyed the podcast, please hit subscribe. @SriniRaghavan
September 22, 2021
Best Advice & Life Lessons with Bob Davis (Microsoft 365)
This podcast episode of On the BALL (Best Advice & Life Lessons) hosted by Srini Raghavan, features Bob Davis. Bob is the Corporate Vice President Growth & Experience at Microsoft. He is a founding member of what became Office 365 and has occupied leadership positions since its inception to becoming a fast-growing multi-billion-dollar business, perhaps the biggest enterprise SaaS business - with millions of customers and hundreds of millions of users.. You don't want to miss this. His best advice and key lessons from the episode: Building and running multibillion dollar enterprise SaaS (Office 365) from scratch Taking a step back, putting things in perspective during crisis Making new mistakes, not make the same mistake twice First things first, getting the priorities right It's all about listening to customers. Really listening. Not letting things fester when it comes to people decisions As an introvert, detailed planning & preparation is key Leaving things better than you found it "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." We have two lives and the second begins and we realize we have only one Show the world with presence, actions and the way you lead your life, who you are and more. On the BALL is a podcast show where I focus on extracting best advice and lessons from world-class performers & leaders from various fields, by deconstructing and teasing out their routines, success habits, tactics, techniques, hacks, tricks, secrets and the best advice or life lesson they've ever received. If you enjoyed the podcast, please hit subscribe. @SriniRaghavan
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