In his column in the Mint yesterday, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes about the fall of Nokia in the context of the Schumpeter warning on competition – that it comes not from price, or other players, but from a company’s own inability to keep up with the times and change. Change, Schumpeter pointed out, will come in … Continue reading
Today, I’d like to pay a tribute to the people of Egypt – on both sides of the walls we saw coming up in the preceding weeks. I pay tribute to the men and women who protested peacefully, without violence, yet stood firm behind their convictions. And I pay tribute to the Egyptian Army and … Continue reading
Admittedly this is not exactly new, but I was going through my books this morning and came across “New Thinking For The New Millennium” by Edward De Bono. As I read the synopsis and the first page, it hit me ~ this is so relevant today, actually more so today than it was at the … Continue reading
What the Tatas nurtured over a century, Niira Radia & Vaishnavi have demolished in a week. #MediaMafia— Mahesh Murthy (@maheshmurthy) November 29, 2010 Mahesh Murthy is right. All those years of building up credibility, threatened (not dashed to the ground) by keeping bad company! I will add, this is true in both our professional and … Continue reading
Life is all about choices. And the ones we make, and the ones we don’t define who we are, and define our lives. Choice itself has many interpretations and applications – from basic choices we make in our daily lives, to choice as an expression of free will, and a million things in between. Choice … Continue reading
While you can take this post as support for “free speech” and “protection of our right to privacy on the internet” I am doing neither. I am simply taking forth the point I made in my previous post on careless emailing. The truth is, everything you say or do on the internet is real. While … Continue reading
If you want to be briliant, be curious— shagorika heryani (@shagorikah) November 11, 2010 Be curious about people, society, cultures, economics, politics, technology, trends… Be curious about relationships, influencers, triggers, issues, dreams, aspirations… Be curious about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, tasks… Be curious in the morning, in the afternoon, in the night, and all the time… … Continue reading
A couple of days back, my 10 year old daughter received an email from a stranger asking her: “Why are you creatingspam??” And this seemed to be in response to an email she’d sent (Fwd:) to some of her friends, and not him! She showed it to me wondering what spam was, and why this person … Continue reading
Interestingly, only today I read a couple of tweets which I wanted to share here on my blog. I actually copy + pasted the tweets into a word document and was planning to talk about them in a post soon. Then amazingly, today I noticed that WordPress announced a couple of days back, new feature that … Continue reading
Here’s a post I first wrote exactly five years ago to this date, on 4th November, 2005! And yes, I’ve been blogging since before most people had internet in India! I am republishing it today, because I think it is still very relevant here in 2010, as it was in 2005. Because while technology has … Continue reading
