Yesterday, a kid who joined my company just 2 weeks ago, quit her job with us, because she got a job with one of “the most wanted” creative agencies in the country. The bizarre thing is, she has no idea who she will report to, nor have any idea what clients she will work on! [...]
Archive for the ‘Learnings’ Category
What’s in a name?
Posted: April 2, 2010 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Common Sense, Learnings, Talent & Assets1
How to perform better on Google (And a nice link to Julia Angwin)!
Posted: February 5, 2009 by noshtradamus in Blatant Self Promotion, Internet, Learnings, New Media, Public Relations, StrategyTags: Google, Julia Angwin, SEM, SEO
I have always been fascinated by my own Google results. Call it narcissist, but I am concerned about what I am linked to, and who is linked to me (pun totally intended). My results (all 184 of them at this moment) vary from positive, vague, to totally misleading. My postive results throw up my LinkedIn [...]
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Thinking and Vision for a better world
Posted: January 20, 2009 by noshtradamus in Learnings, Stargazing, Strategy, Talent & AssetsTags: Learnings, Obama, USA, Vision
Excerpts from the Inaugural Speech of President Barack Obama… thinking and vision we could all use. “Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be [...]
Monkey Business – An old story revisted
Posted: November 8, 2008 by noshtradamus in Common Sense, LearningsTags: Economics, Monkeys, Stock Market
In my search for an image for a monkey in my previous post, I discovered this story about monkeys and the stock market. Very relevant to what’s happening today. So thought I’d share it with you “Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy [...]
Y’Obama – Learnings from the US Presidential Elections
Posted: November 7, 2008 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Brands, Common Sense, Learnings, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Strategy, UncategorizedTags: Marketing, Public Relations, Brands, Obama, Politics, Adverting, Agenda, Value Proposition, USP, US Elections, Voters
The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America is landmark in many ways. In fact, Obama’s slogan of “change” holds true in many more ways than perhaps even the man and his spin doctors would have imagined. But that’s not the point of this post. Enough has, and will be written about what [...]
IndiBloggers Delhi Meet – Nurturing The Energy
Posted: September 11, 2008 by noshtradamus in Blatant Self Promotion, Creativity, Learnings, New Media, Public Relations, Stargazing, Strategy, Talent & Assets, Trends, UncategorizedTags: Bloggers, Blogs, india, IndiBlogger, Networking, New Media
Last Saturday evening, I spent around four hours with some of the friendliest, most unassuming bunch of people I have met in a long time. Which is surprising, considering I was at the IndiBloggers offline meet in Delhi. And Bloggers, as their reputation suggests, are a volatile and unpredictable bunch of people. “True, Bloggers around [...]
Tata, West Bengal. Bye-bye, blackmail?
Posted: August 24, 2008 by noshtradamus in Common Sense, Indian Economy, Learnings, Stargazing, TrendsTags: Capitalism, Communism, CPI, Progress, Singur, Tata
I was most happy to read about news, that the Tatas are considering moving out of Singur in West Bengal, and setting up the Nano plant elsewhere! It is about time the corporate world stops cowering to pressure from mindless mobs led by out-of-portfolio politicians, and stands up to say: “hey! we bring money into [...]
Dubai Diaries, Part 3 – The Perfect BPO Model
Posted: August 9, 2008 by noshtradamus in Brands, Common Sense, Innovation, Learnings, Marketing, Public Relations, Strategy, Talent & AssetsTags: BPO, Brands, Dubai, Economy, infrastructure, Success, UAE
So there I was sitting in the office of a large financial institution in Dubai. I had just met Sandra at the reception. Vinod brought me a cup of tea. And I was about to sit in on a meeting with Gaurav, Rajan, Michelle and Aman* . As I looked at my fellow desis buzzing around the [...]
Dubai Diaries, Part 2 – Paradoxes Galore
Posted: August 4, 2008 by noshtradamus in Learnings, Marketing, TrendsTags: Culture, Dubai, Economy, Islam, Middle East, People, UAE
Huge malls in the middle of the hot desert. Ski-slopes covered with snow, and marinas with boats, in the middle of the malls! This is fact, not fiction in Dubai. And the list of such paradoxes here, is endless. Every waking moment since I arrived last Thursday, has been spent reversing my perceptions of the [...]
Dubai Diaries, Part 1 – First Impressions
Posted: August 1, 2008 by noshtradamus in Learnings, Marketing, Strategy, Talent & AssetsTags: Dubai, Economy, emerging markets, UAE
I landed in the middle-east for the first time in my life yesterday – into Dubai. The first glimpses I got of the land below courtesy of the forward and downward camera of the Emirates Boeing 777, was of endless desert covered in a carpet of dust and heat. But as the aircraft landed and [...]
