One of my new friends asked me the above question “How to de-commoditize if you are selling a commodity product?”. He knew that commodity products usually get differentiated by price and wanted to escape that. That’s a problem for many companies. Adrian Slywotzky has a cool book called How to grow when markets don’t where… Continue reading
Date Archives → July 2005
Quotes worth recording – Arthur Ashe
Investing to create a compelling future
We know from Stephen Covey that “Everything happens twice, once in our mind and once in reality”. We are smart enough to know that in order to create a compelling future, we need to first design it. Most of us, of course are busy talking about the past and what happened with other people rather… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #31 Use your "thinking bandwidth" wisely
One of my friends was complaining to me about the fact that his boss was not understanding him. He vividly described what exactly happened in a particular incident and ultimately his point was that “his boss was wrong” and “he was right”. We talked about it for a while and both of us agreed that… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #30 Watch the shelf-life of your skills
The era of job security is over. There are very few organizations that can actually guarantee your job over a long period of time. Most people know this but very few people really do something about this. I would like to say that this is not a trend or a fad. The circumstances in the… Continue reading
Workaholics – Don't miss this one
Brad has a great post on Work/Life Balance today. I think it is a must read for all of us here in Silicon Valley. I may be wrong, this over working attitude is prevalent more with technology professionals than anyone else. Thanks Brad for the great article there. Please sign up for my newsletter here:
Aspiring authors – Don't miss this one
Quotes worth recording – Anias Nin
Picked this quote from Karen’s coaching website. This little quote reminds me of the saying “no one can stop an idea whose time has come” “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” – Anias Nin Please sign up for… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #29 Watch your standard practices
Today I was meeting an old friend over a cup of coffee. My friend asked about my upcoming book “Beyond Code” and I was more than happy to talk about it. Something caught his attention and he said, I have to make a note of it. He opened a notebook and scribbled something. This happened… Continue reading