Pushing Beyond the Obvious

By Mukesh Gupta: Author, Blogger, Podcaster, Change Agent. Entreprenuer by Nature, Employee by Choice

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Helping you Succeed!

Episode Date
The Paradox of Modern Leadership
Jan 26, 2026
How to Be an Inspirational Leader?
Jan 20, 2026
The Play Advantage – Why Fun is the New Frontier of High Performance Leadership
Jan 18, 2026
Here is Why You Are Stuck in Middle Management..
Jan 15, 2026
The Single Most Important Question You’re Not Asking Your Team
Jan 12, 2026
The Last Legal Competitive Advantage You Are Allowed!
Jan 09, 2026
How to be Remarkable and Stand Out as a Leader
Jan 07, 2026
A Practical Guide to Building an Engaged Team
Jan 06, 2026
How to Be Creative as a Team
Jan 05, 2026
The Hidden Leadership Skill: Leading for Evolution
Jan 05, 2026
Building The Confidence to be VISIBLE with Sheena Yap Chan
Jan 03, 2026
What Quentin Tarantino Can Teach Leaders About their Jobs
Dec 30, 2025
How to Trick our Mind and Body to do What We Want
Dec 29, 2025
Don’t Solve Problems. Develop Problem Solvers
Dec 23, 2025
PBTO: Goldratt’s Rules of Flow – Delivering Projects on-time on-budget and on-spec and driving up profitability
Feb 26, 2024
PBTO: Stepping into a World of Exponential Possibility with Sophie Krantz
Feb 13, 2024
PBTO: Asking the Right Questions and Questioning the right things with Dr. Alan Barnard
Feb 06, 2024
PBTO: The Art of Leading in the Age of AI with Damien Cummings
Jan 29, 2024
PBTO: Learning How to Communicate to Inform, Inspire and Connect People with Col Fink
Jan 21, 2024
PBTO: The Art of Leading with Pankaj Rusia
Jan 15, 2024
PBTO: Mindsets to Become a High Performing Leader
Nov 02, 2023
PBTO: What sort of Leader do you want to be with Lisa O’Neill
Oct 26, 2023
Using KPI’s to drive Peak Performance with Stacey Barr – The Performance Measure Specialist
May 09, 2022
Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt
Sep 29, 2021
How Conflicts can Super-charge Our business with Liz Kislik
Nov 15, 2018
Be the Influential Leader you are meant to be “Monday to Monday” with Stacey Hanke
Nov 12, 2018
A Talk based on the book – Thrive at SAP Asia
Nov 07, 2018
Imagination – Our Greatest Strength and our Greatest Weakness
Oct 08, 2018
PBTO S2E10: Things that Matter to being Successful with Anne Sugar
Sep 07, 2018
PBTO S2E9: Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life And Your Career
Apr 30, 2018
PBTO S2E8: Empathy – The Super power of a Successful FBI Hostage Negotiator or an Entrepreneur
Mar 30, 2018
PBTO S2E7: Fusion – How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies with Denise Lee Yohn
Mar 12, 2018
PBTO S2E6: The Art of Standing Out & Reinventing Ourselves
Mar 06, 2018
PBTO S2E5: Personal Knowledge Mastery with Harold Jarche
Feb 25, 2018
PBTO S2E4: Rethinking Vertical Movement Inside a Building
Feb 16, 2018
PBTO S2E3: The Importance of “Imaginativefulness” in the Creative Process
Feb 02, 2018
PBTO S2E2: Jill Konrath – More Sales in Less Time
Jan 19, 2018
PBTO Season 2: EP01: Future of Work with Andy Tryba
Jan 12, 2018
PBTO58: Hunch – Where Insights and Foresights Meet! With Bernadette Jiwa
Jul 10, 2017
PBTO57: Liminal Thinking – Creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs with Dave Gray
Jul 06, 2017
PBTO56: The Inevitable – Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly
Jun 29, 2017
PBTO55: Unleashing Human Performance with Jason Forrest (@jforrestspeaker)
Jun 02, 2017
PBTO54: The Fuzzy and the Techie- The Important Role of Humanities in a Tech Driven World
May 30, 2017
PBTO53: Deep Work: How to do work that Matters with Cal Newport
May 11, 2017
PBTO52: Good Marketing Opens Minds and Good Sales Closes Deals – Krishnan Chatterjee
Feb 23, 2017
PBTO51: Non-Obvious Trends with Rohit Bhargava
Feb 14, 2017
PBTO50: Understanding Why We do, What We do with Dilip Soman
Feb 09, 2017
PBTO49: Our Bias Against Creativity and How to Overcome it with Jennifer Mueller
Feb 08, 2017
PBTO48: Your Organisation’s Culture is Your Last Competitive (Invisible) Advantage with Soren Kaplan
Jan 18, 2017
PBTO47: Building Your Network with Shubham, CEO and Founder – NODD
Jan 09, 2017
PBTO46: High Profit Prospecting with The Sales Hunter – Mark Hunter
Jan 04, 2017
PBTO45: The Only Sales Guide You Will Ever Need with Anthony Iannarino
Sep 22, 2016
PBTO44: Out-think, Out-pace & Out-Wit your competition with Lakshmipathy Bhat
Sep 19, 2016
PBTO43: How to Lead without Authority 
Sep 12, 2016
PBTO42: The Importance of Being Happy And Doing Things that Make You Happy with RJ Shraddha
Sep 06, 2016
PBTO41: Taking the Leap – Wannapreneur to an Entrepreneur with John Chisholm
Sep 05, 2016
PBTO40: Transforming Observation into Innovation with Andrea Simon
Sep 01, 2016
PBTO39: The Importance of Serendipity and The Courage to Defy Conventions with Sairee Chahal
Aug 30, 2016
PBTO38: Office Humour and lessons in Management with Sarah Cooper
Aug 29, 2016
PBTO37: Surge – Identifying and riding Trends in Your Marketplace with Mike Mikhalowicz
Aug 19, 2016
PBTO36: Why Giving a Damn is Underrated and Caring is a Competitive Advantage with Bernadette Jiwa
Aug 17, 2016
PBTO35: Peak – The Secrets to becoming world class with Anders Ericsson
Jul 29, 2016
PBTO34: The Art of Being Unmistakable by Srini Rao
Apr 12, 2016
PBTO33: Creating Award Winning Products with Yogita Agarwal
Apr 11, 2016
PBTO32: Succeeding at Social Media Marketing and the Art of People with Dave Kerpen
Apr 01, 2016
PBTO31: Insights on B2B Selling and Leading a B2B Sales team with Alok Goyal
Mar 04, 2016
PBTO30: Digital Marketing strategies for Startups with Anshul Sushil – Founder & CEO: Boring Brands
Feb 27, 2016
PBTO29: Entrepreneur in Focus – Natasha from www.NatsyByDesign.com
Feb 25, 2016
PBTO28: Entrepreneur in Focus – Annkur Agarwal of www.PriceBaba.com
Feb 12, 2016
PBTO27: Selfish, Scared and Stupid – A Guide to Navigating Change
Feb 09, 2016
PBTO26: Sales Strategies to Succeed in Selling to Crazy Busy People with Jill Konrath
Aug 20, 2015
PBTO 25: Fostering Innovation When Failing is Not an Option
Aug 13, 2015
PBTO23: Building Fiercely Loyal Communities – @SarahRobinson
Jun 01, 2015
PBTO22: Growing Your Business By Building an Army of Zombie Loyalists – @PeterShankman
May 17, 2015
PBTO21: Courting Controversies To Gain Visibility and Success with Scott Jordan @ScottevestCEO
May 07, 2015
PBTO20: A Crash Course in Digital Marketing for Entrepreneurs by Mitch Joel (@MitchJoel)
Apr 11, 2015
PBTO19: Profit First – A Simple System To Transform The Way You Run Your Business (@MikeMichalowicz)
Jan 30, 2015
PBTO18: In Conversation with Howard Moskowitz and Stephen Rappaport
Jan 21, 2015
PBTO17: The role of a CEO is to Build, Own and Transfer an institution – @Anaggh Desai
Nov 12, 2014
PBTO16: Neil Patel (@NeilPatel) talks Entrepreneurship
Nov 06, 2014
We Cannot be Allergic to Failure and Still be Innovative – @windspike
Nov 04, 2014
PBTO14: How do you change behavior of an experienced sales person with @DaveKahle
Oct 27, 2014
PBTO13: @LetsGrowLeaders – In conversation with Karin Hurt
Oct 25, 2014
PBTO12: Making Breakthrough Innovations Happen with @PorusMunshi
Oct 21, 2014
PBTO11: Building An Ideas Driven Organizations with @DeanMSchroeder and @AlanGRobinson
Oct 20, 2014
PBTO10: Creativity, Innovation & Anti-Conventional Thinking
Jul 30, 2014
PBTO9: Myths of Creativity – In Conversation with David Burkus
Jul 25, 2014
PBTO8: Thoughts on the startup ecosystem in India
Jul 24, 2014
PBTO7: The Importance of Doing it Right over Getting it Done for Sales Leaders
Jul 13, 2014
PBTO6: How to Turn Yourself into a Sales Rockstar
Jul 07, 2014
PBTO5: Innovation, Design Thinking and Solving Complex Problems
Jun 25, 2014
PBTO4: Getting Hooked On Customers With Bob Thompson
Jun 14, 2014
PBTO3: What Matters is Execution, Not Ideas
Jun 14, 2014
PBTO2: Changing Role of Marketing and The Importance of Building a Personal Brand
Jun 10, 2014
PBTO1: Launching “Pushing Beyond the Obvious” Podcast
Jun 10, 2014
PBTO24: What’s the Measure of a Sales Managers Success
Mar 20, 2013