When you begin your career, typically there are many people who can (almost) do the same thing that you can do. As you progress in your career, the classic attraction (may be because of the “social proof” that exists) is to again join groups of people that go after popular and relevant stuff. Problem is… Continue reading
Date Archives → June 2008
Things that make me smile #36 – Toilet Paper
My teacher always says that “the same action can mean different things to different people”. So your work (hence your action) may mean something to you and you may be expecting that it means the “same thing” to your boss. It may not be true – in fact, in most cases it is not true…. Continue reading
The mark of an insanely-unbelievably-extraordinarily successful product
A product is successful when it sells hundreds and thousands of units. A product is insanely successful when it creates an industry around that product. iPod is one such product as there are companies (and there are divisions of large companies) that make products just around iPod. A product is insanely-unbelievably-extraordinarily successful when companies try… Continue reading
Fulfilling the promise with ease…
How easy are you making it easy for people to get what they are entitled to? Think about it. There are so many “Mail-In Rebate” offers that want you to do half a dozen things to get back what was promised. I am sure that the complexity of the problem precludes many people from completing… Continue reading
Ways to Distinguish Yourself #187 – Raise Awareness on your offers
Distinguishing oneself is not easy for anyone and it is not a one-time thing. If you are distinguishing yourself by the kind of expertise you have and if that expertise is in demand, soon others will follow suit and commoditize. If you are distinguishing yourself by writing a book and the theme of the book… Continue reading
50 words; so many benefits
A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words – not 49 or 51 but exactly 50 words. Why write a mini saga? There are several reasons. For the reader, the benefits are simple – whether the mini saga is good or bad, it only takes a minute to read it. There are… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Jacob Bronowski
Thank you for reading this blog, some other blog and thank you reading anything that you think will help. You might be reading a lot and thinking about what you read and discussing it with your friends. This is all good but without action none of this is good. Bronowski captures this brilliantly in this… Continue reading