Category Archive: Learnings

Feb 17

The Challenge Within: The Inability To Change With The Times

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 …

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Feb 16

A tribute to Egypt

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 …

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Nov 12

Thought For the Day (And Week, Month, Year, Life): Be Curious

  “If you want to be brilliant, be curious” 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… Be curious about everything relevant, …

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Nov 04

Digital Road Rage – Redux

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 …

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Oct 08

Hi, can you talk right now?

    It’s amazing how this basic courtesy has all but disappeared in the world of mobile phones today. The courtesy of checking whether the person they’ve called, has nothing else to do, but to talk whenever the callers wants to. And god forbid, if you don’t take the call because you are busy, they …

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