Two men in a room, room is in an apartment, apartment is in a building Building is in a locality, locality is in a city, city is in a state State is in a Nation, Nation is in a continent, continent is on The Earth The Earth is in a solar system, solar system is in the galaxy The Galaxy is in the Milky way… We are so small still we create TWO WORLDs in Read more…
I was thinking about the middle path and two types of people came to my mind – optimists and pessimists. I went back in the memory lanes. As an innovation consultant, I was a part of a Summit on Innovation. Few of the workshops in the summit were on “Culture of innovation” in organizations. Everyone agreed that we need diverse team for innovation, however, everyone agreed that we need to engage only energetic and optimist Read more…
With Ashar and Vineet Microsoft is considering making its operating system (OS) business open source. Microsoft started it operations in 1975 and had become formidable in desktop computers operating system market between late 90’s and the first decade of 21st century. During that time it captured more than 80% market share of operating systems. Microsoft is one of the companies which has fought maximum number of patent infringement cases over last two decades. Microsoft’s last Read more…
Its been three weeks I did not write anything on blog. I felt as if I am not doing justice with my blogging. However, I was too busy with work and therefore could not fulfill this commitment. This passion when put on hold by professional responsibilities, I can understand how difficult would it be for us to think of some lesser important things which may hamper our personal life. Well, whom to apologies for this Read more…
Election results of couple of Indian states are out and largely there are clear mandates in all states. So, there are not many permutations and combinations happening for forming governments. I was wondering about the elections, results and post results – five years. The long term thoughts (five years after results) were hampered by a news of rabble rousing activities in UP. Does the confidence of victory create so much defiance that people do not Read more…
Have you ever asked a question to yourself – why? Why am I doing it? Why am I running from pillars to posts either aimlessly or with an aim. Once the aim is achieved – what next? Every strategic question stems a WHY in the mind of management also, right? So the question, why? Leads organizations as well as individuals. This question has led me to think about far in the future how we (individually, Read more…
“Religion-based quota won’t divide our people. Google will. That’s our Government’s logic.” – Chetan Bhagat, Author My friend Tejas Phatak (T Gates) recently wrote a blog – ‘Dot hai to Hot hai!’ I was thinking about the democracy, elections for couple of days and honestly laughing on the kind of stories and promises we hear from politicians. Specially during the election season. With due respect to the ‘business’ of politicians, I do not see many Read more…
Recently Dr Raghunathan shared a link of his interview with Wharton with me We are individually very smart but collectively dumb. The very first paragraph of the interview has an example of a farmer. A farmer whose corn won top awards year after year. When a reporter asked about the secret of his success, the farmer attributed it to the fact that he shared his corn with his neighbors. Why, the reporter wondered, would the Read more…
Have you read Games Indians Play! by Dr Raghunathan? Very interesting book with pertinent examples of issues we face, many a times overlook and are facing worldwide. In that book he says – “We are individually very smart but collectively dumb”. I think we are collectively dumb and therefore we are in the economy-related mess we have created. I did not know that I would be referring to my new year blog so early in Read more…
Have you had eye sight related issue? I recently had a very strange one. I observed – at occasions – faces of people elongated. It was strange and I started thinking what if I lose my eyes? Well, I wont die! only eyes would be lost. I am not the eyes, eyes are part of me. I went one step further, what happens when we die? We lose eyes, ears e.g. all five senses. But Read more…