Experimentation with Organizational Strategy: A Matsushita Example
Organization develops through experimentation. You are so lucky as an entrepreneur if your strategy works at the first time. But it’s a reality that it will not work perfectly as our wish at the first endeavor. Nothing is wrong with that. It will be wrong and suicidal if you are very strict with that defective...
Book Review: Love is the killer app by Tim Sanders
Recently I chanced upon to revisit Tim Sanders’s brilliant book ‘Love is the killer app’ published back in 2002. The book is a poignant account to set your attitude to be more knowledgeable, compassionate and caring. The central and most powerful idea of the book tells that to win & sustain in this new era...
3 intangibles to win business & make connections from Tim Sanders
In the year 2002 Tim Sanders, the then Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, wrote a book titled ‘Love is the killer app’ that wobbled the old model of business and organizational philosophy. The idea is brilliant, poignant, effective and perfectly practical and the book sold like a hot cake back then. Recently I chanced upon...
8 basic principles to stay on top
The voyage of building a brilliant company takes conscious effort. I have always this question that ‘what it takes to build a great company, why few companies do so much than others’. Fortunately, few days back I chanced upon a brilliant revised edition of ‘In Search of excellence’ written by excellence guru Tom Peters &...
4 characteristics to form the basis of an ideal character from Bertrand Russell’s ‘On Education’, 1926
Character is what makes all the difference-we have heard many times in life. In making up our character influence of our experience and education is untold. We can’t, in fact, conceive its credence. To build up an ideal character is critical for us to become successful and to generate good citizens. And identifying few characteristics...
Excellence Demands Worship
Satyendra Nath Bose, the legendary Bengali physicist, was famously known for Boson particle and Bose-Einstein Statistics. When He was a professor at University of Dhaka he lead a remarkably different life- you can call it a life of a worshiper. He was always found in his lab analyzing problems with unprecedented contemplation, no matter day...
Everything about Imagination: The workshop of the mind from Napoleon Hill, 1938
If you imagine less, less will be what you deserve-Debbie Millman eloquently proclaimed. For entrepreneurs and creative workers imagination is the resort that gives ways out in all sorts of crisis and challenges. The contribution of imagination has marked all sphere of our life adequately. From the spectacular monuments to moments, parks to pavements; from...
How to be successful: 9 rules for success from British Novelist Amelia E. Barr
Everybody wants to be success but very few of us want to pay the price. However, this does not reduce the attractiveness of answer to this very question: how to be successful? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is always an elusive one. Nobody knows but everybody wants. But the lessons and opinions from the...
A burning desire is the starting point of all Human achievement- from a vintage 1938 read “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill
‘Don’t worry’, brilliant internet activist Aaron Swartz asserted, no one remembers your failures’. Success begins with a strong desire for success, Lara Jade-genius Fashion Photographer declared “most people are put off by success because they don’t think they can make it” in a recent interview. If you imagine less, said Debbie Millman, less will be...
Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin: A vintage reading; 1733-1758
Eat to live, and not live to eat Reading has a profound impact on how we live our life let alone how we operate ourselves in a day to day basis. The art of living could be fundamentally changed and modified by a good book. The fascination, understanding and poignant feeling a good book can...
Debbie Millman on self imposed restrictions, and starting now
From now on, at least for 2013, I’m not going the buy in the advice ‘be realistic’. Never be realistic! Because reality sucks! Everybody tells the same thing: you can’t start right after graduation, you can’t dream that big at the beginning, dreams never come true, dreams are mere dreams, break your goals, make them...
You believe what you want to believe: Al Ries & Jack Trout on ’22 Immutable Laws of Marketing’ – Part 1
Even the sun follows the rule to wake up in the morning in the east and set in the west. Each and everything in the world follows some rules and regulations. You may build a fantastic airplane but it won’t get off the ground unless it follows the rules of physics. Then, why Marketing would...
