Goals are easy if you never have to fulfill them. Everything is clear when it is in your head. Only when that has to be translated into reality, there’s a problem. So, if you are alone and you are going at your goals, chances are you may not reach where you are headed. Why? Because… Continue reading
Date Archives → July 2008
The best gift your customer can give you
What is the best gift your customer can give you? Hint: It’s not money. It is an act that shows that a customer REALLY cares about you. Recently Hari (president of Jiffle) and I experienced a gift from one of our customers and it touched our hearts. Please take a look at this site http://www.myjiffle.com… Continue reading
You can't do it alone and you can't get help easily either
One option is to have simple goals. Goals that you can achieve easily. Goals that won’t make a big difference in your life or in the lives of others. Goals that really don’t matter. The next option is to have big goals – goals that can change you and more importantly – goals that can… Continue reading
Managing Time vs Increasing Leverage
Since we can’t manage time, all we can do is to work towards increasing our leverage. The first step to increasing leverage comes from superior thinking as thought precedes action. Our society pays a premium for action as compared to thinking. Why? Simply because thinking is invisible and action is visible. You can’t make out… Continue reading
Samsung Advertisement Experience
Take a look at the picture below (Photo courtesy: Kiruba Shankar). This is from an ad for the Samsung Refrigerator. You would think that this is like any other advertisement. It’s not! You will have to click through this link to find out how this advertisement is really implemented. (Hint: It is really not an… Continue reading
How to make the most of web meetings; Interview with Wayne Turmel
About Wayne Turmel: After a long career in the traditional corporate training world, Wayne Turmel is now the president of www.greatwebmeetings.com, which helps people develop the sales and presentation skills necessary to communicate effectively when you can’t be face to face with your customers. He is also the host of The Cranky Middle Manager Show,… Continue reading
In search of certainty…
What if you could be absolutely certain about how your projects will shape up? Sorry. You can’t. Simple reason is that for any significant project out there, there are always going to be factors that are outside of your control. Think whatever you want – you have only so much power on factors that are… Continue reading
A quick lesson about the value of mentors and teachers
Coming from India, I have to say cricket is my weakness. So much that there is only one site bookmarked on my blackberry and it is CricInfo. Just keeping the priorities right 🙂 I was reading the story of a young spinner Pragyan Ojha who just got selected into the Indian Test Squad for the… Continue reading
Stop worrying about your idea and start focusing on execution
Having lived in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade now, I get to hear ideas almost ALL the time – in various shapes, sizes and forms. Ideas, like most things in life, follow a normal distribution curve. Of the ones that I understand and can make a reasonable assessment, there are good ones,… Continue reading
The Chasm on the Road to Distinction
Most people fall into the category of being an “Also Ran” in their careers. A small percentage of them will start on the road to distinction. It is a work in progress for a long time. Exceptions exist like in anything in life and work. Just like a trapeze artist who has just let go… Continue reading