Laksh Raghavan
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Laksh Raghavan
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Founder of Cyb3rSyn Labs | Helping accelerate the transition away from mainstream management practices.

Newsletter: https://www.cyb3rsyn.com/
"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯?"

Listen to @eikonne.bsky.social on the latest episode of the Cyb3rSyn Labs podcast:

www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/becoming-a...

#leadership #systemsthinking #humility
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
𝐂𝐲𝐛𝟑𝐫𝐒𝐲𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 - 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟕

In today's episode, @eikonne.bsky.social discusses how traditional management practices impede real human development and why it's critical to challenge prevailing paradigms.

Podcast Link 🔗: www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/becoming-a...
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Book Launch 🚀 and exclusive Podcast: Connecting the Dots... by @harishjose.bsky.social and @kriswhen.bsky.social!

I’m super excited to announce the publication of the book co-authored by Harish Jose and Venkatesh Krishnamurthy!
September 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast with @trond.hjorteland.com is now on YouTube: youtu.be/CLnCyllgVFo

#leadership #systemsthinking
August 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 (𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦) 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘺.

- 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙘𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚
August 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Heinz Von Foerster in conversation with Bernhardt Poerksen on “laws of nature” 🙂:
August 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The importance of reading OLD books and reading the WHOLE book!

Listen to my full conversation with Roger James: www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/the-where-...
March 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Today’s post continues the Mistakes of Mainstream Management (MMM) series and explores how lack of understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can lead Tech. executives and entrepreneurs to waste money and resources on misguided projects and investments.
February 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Today’s post continues the Mistakes of Mainstream Management (MMM) series and explores how lack of understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can lead Tech. executives and entrepreneurs to waste money and resources on misguided projects and investments.
February 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This week’s Cyb3rSyn Newsletter summarizes the key highlights of the inaugural Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast episode - my conversation with Daniel Schmidt, the Founder of DoubleLoop.
February 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲!

Organizational Psychology is a fascinating field. Understanding insights from this field can be amazing useful for Silicon Valley Tech. managers/executives and yet this field remains underrated in the mainstream.
February 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘂𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆

Is it possible to improve the productivity of the organization without inflicting emotional stress on your employees?
January 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬

The intersection of cybersecurity and psychology is challenging to write about. Yes, there is a huge replication crisis in the field but that doesn't diminish its importance for successful cybersecurity strategy.
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Most Underrated Bias in Mainstream Management: 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Don’t get me wrong - metrics and quantification are needed to manage a business. Quantification by itself can’t be asserted as inherently harmful.
January 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Systems don't exist 🤯

Organizations don't learn (reification)!

How can these controversial sounding claims be explained?

A thread 🧵
January 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This week we continue our Mistakes of Mainstream Management [MMM] series with a call for leaders to stop seeking solutions to their problems.

A Thread 🧵
December 29, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Strategy: Theory vs Practice!

I used be a ‘Straight As’ student from elementary school.

But, sometime in my 5th grade, I don’t know what behavior change my grandmother noticed in me (that all of this “got” to my head) - she warned me that the top grades I’m getting in school were useless.
December 22, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Karma Yoga for the 21st Century!

🔁 Practical application of insights from systems thinking, complexity and cybernetics!
💸 Values Based Spending
🔐 Inversion applied to cybersecurity
📉 The Great Tragedy of Modern Life
⓶ The two questions executives need to ask themselves

#systemsthinking
December 19, 2024 at 8:23 PM
This week's Cyb3rSyn Newsletter is the 3rd edition of the Cyb3rSyn Kaleidoscope - covering a diverse set of topics:

✅ Practical application of systems thinking, complexity, cybernetics
✅ Values Based Spending
✅ Threat Modeling
✅ The Great Tragedy of Modern Life

and…
December 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM