In social media, we often see posts about employment in top / popular companies getting celebrated and having lot of engagement. Whereas the posts about someone starting up does not elicit a similar response unless it is an announcement with funding details. This seems ironic because there are more posts on startup progress from entrepreneurs …
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One of the aspects that has divided the cinema community is leaning towards either of commercial or Indie movies. Commercial movies are widely popular and does entertain. Also sells pop corns and sodas. There is a formula, budget and target audience. If it does not click in box office, it is a failure. Indie cinemas …
Our preferred hospital is bit far compared to many others close by. The reason is they care. Right from nurse staff to doctors to pathology to emergency everyone cares. There is a longer wait time, patients crib but they don’t go elsewhere. But the hospital never says they care. It is a given. We live …
Freedom or Choice? One of the common reasons some aspire to become an entrepreneur or independent professional is that one does not have to work for anybody else. Freedom. But are we really free? 👩💻 We still have to work for employees. 💼 We still have to work for clients. 👨🔧 We still have work …
Sometime back I came across a video by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the originator of Theory of constraints. In any production process there would be constraints and they serve as a bottleneck for the overall output. The theory suggests to, 🕵️♂️ Keenly look for constraints 👨🔧 See what can be done with available resource 🎛 Bring …
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (Nike) is my all time favorite memoir of an entrepreneur. So when I came across “Why I Stopped wearing my socks” by Alok Kejriwal, it felt like the perfect foil. While Shoe Dog was a Memoir ,long read and literary master piece. Socks is shorter, split into small chapters, has …
🤡 Some Retail Shops have quirky and funny names 🎤 Some Restaurants have song and dance routine 🕺 Some Companies have flash mob for new hires While these are good fun, they are still cosmetic. These are not a benchmark for essential aspects. 🛒 Shops should still focus on having good products and good experience …
Children who are yet to start reading, navigate mobile and game console menus with ease. They quickly learn and recognise patterns. Sometimes older people, even though literate, have tough time with gadgets. If an app is meant to be used by older people it need to be designed accordingly. But enterprise application are used by …
Sometimes it makes sense to let go of your high paying customer In the only economics paper we had, I remember reading about buying power and consumprion. As the buying power increases for a consumer, the consumption of the product increases. But after a threshold the demand comes down as the consumer moves to premium …
In Sales 101, you are told one should always treat prospects as adults. Meaning, you should not criticise their past decisions, do not try to make decisions on their behalf and so on. But in certain aspects, I feel, one should treat their prospects as children 👶. 💯 Children don’t like it when you are …
