The Accident Luckily, the accident wasn’t fatal. He recovered quickly. What puzzled him though – were the events that led to the accident. He remembered vividly that he had looked over his shoulders every time he changed lanes. What he forgot was that he was in the “blind spot” of someone else. — Note: 1…. Continue reading →

The Book John loved the library. That day, he was engrossed in a book. He hopedto finish reading it completely. It was almost the end and then… therewas a surprise – the last section was missing. “Alas” John thought“this book is close to real life. You don’t know happens next…” — Note: 1. A mini… Continue reading →

Phone Call He dialed the number again. It was wrong number. That’s three times ina row!  Something was wrong. The number seemed OK. Just when he wasabout to give up, he figured out, he found that the last two digitswere interchanged in his phone book. That explained it all! — Note: 1. A mini saga… Continue reading →

The Interview That was his last interview for the day. He had done well. The job was almost guaranteed. While the pay and position were good, there was some discomfort. He didn’t think that he was reporting to a person who could lift him to the next level. He silently walked away. — Note: 1…. Continue reading →

A mini saga is a story that is exactly 50 words (not 49 or 51.) What a cool idea! Ignorance is not bliss all the time 🙁 I first heard about mini saga from Dan Pink (author of A Whole New Mind) and fell in love with the concept. All my earlier books (published 19… Continue reading →

More than 10,000 people have seen the “Personal Branding for Technology Professionals” eBook in the last three weeks. Thank you for your interest and support. Now, the same eBook is available in the NXTBook format as part of the launch of their NXT Big Thing online publication. Now, who is NXTbook Media and what is… Continue reading →

The first day of the launch of my new ebook (PDF, 40 pages) titled “Personal Branding for Technology Professionals” was great. Thank you for the warm reception. Here is the image showing some statistics so far. Here is the link to the FREE book again (right click to download) eBook: Personal Branding for Technology Professionals… Continue reading →

I have been fascinated by the work of both my heroes Tom Peters (Brand You) and Seth Godin (Purple Cow) for quite a while. My series on Ways to Distinguish Yourself is an offshoot of my passion on this subject. Technology professionals need to brand themselves more than anybody else as the consequences of not… Continue reading →

Those of you who liked Steve Farber’s Radical Leap will like this even more. Steve has put together a compelling package to persuade you to buy his book TODAY. Here is the link to the special page Radical Edge: Special offer for purchasing the book on 04/19/2006 Disclaimer: I am supporting Steve by providing a… Continue reading →

I don’t fully understand the name of Guy’s blog but I call it GKU or Guy Kawasaki University. If you have not enrolled in it yet, please do so. It is only a few months old but a few years worth of courses have already been dished out 😉 I am sure there is more… Continue reading →