Scenario, Afterthoughts & Prompts

Religion is one of the most binding and unifying factor across globe. People become religious for various reasons; for peace, to escape the harsh reality of this world, to get their wish fulfilled which they otherwise feel can’t be achieved by their effort and so on and so forth. But to be a successful entrepreneur or a better manager, one should be religious person as well. There are five solid reason listed below for being so: 1) Religion teaches you to be ‘disciplined’ : I am for sure don’t know details about my religion, so knowing the details of other religion is out of question for me. But having seen everybody practicing their respective religions, one thing I can say that they follow it in disciplined manner. Order may be different, but discipline occupies a prominent place in every religion. Similarly, to make any business successful, one needs to be disciplined. Without discipline, one will surely squatter away the time and resources. 2) Religion teaches yo...

Google is powerful, we all know that. After all, more than two-third of search traffic in US and European countries, almost all search traffic in country like India goes to Google direction. And more traffic means more pages and information getting optimized taking Google page ranking algorithm in to mind. Many do it right and many others do it right at the same time, so there is always tough fight to be top ranked in Google search. This competition forces many to take the route, which is not appreciated by Google. If somebody is looking for steps to screw his SEO campaign, then few of them are given below: 1) Try to manipulate the search by organizing search through deceptive means : Google is founder and propagator of open world order. It earns big money through Google Adwords and shares the pie with site owners, where it sends the traffic, through Adsense. Sometime back I read an article about the nefarious design of getting organic search ranking. There are numerous...

There are many players in India trying to get into the space of e-books sales and the scenario also seems to be conducive. Country already has a population of more than 1.2 billion and maximum number of people falls between the age group of 18-45. Not only that, country has always been at top edge of technology advancement. Now-a-days, we have wide range of smartphones and tablets available in the price range of Rs.3500/- to Rs.45,000/- and the total number of available devices are huge; in scores of millions. According to some survey, India is showing good appetite for e-books and digital content.   So, everything makes a perfect business sense. But it is easier said than done for new entrants. They should incorporate following six strategies to make their business successful:         1. Free Apps sucks battery; have a dedicated e-book reader as well : Most of the smartphones and tablets in the country run on Android OS, which is open source and ha...

Everybody will agree with me that traveling in Indian Rail is not only an experience in itself, but it presents the true picture of India as well. People from all walk of life, different cast, creed, belief; all join in the party, enjoy it despite so many difficulties and tough experiences, laugh at each other’s jokes, share foods and finally reach their respective destination. Train journey in India is educating as well. Five management lesson I learned from Indian rail journey: 1)You should have the intent to finish the task : No task is the easy one and so is traveling in Indian rail, especially if you are traveling up to AC III tier. So, you must have the intent to finish the task or complete the journey, otherwise you will get down before coming aboard after seeing the mad rush. 2) You should be ready to understand the other’s perspective: When you start your journey, you will find lots of people with lots of baggage, trying to board the train. So is the case wi...

I got the opportunity to be audience of one of pre-budget talk show to be aired on national business news channel on some serious financial implication on one of the sector. I had expected to hear the experts and learn from their wise words, but my expectation was completely dashed. Though I have no doubt about the credentials of panel experts, but the point they presented in favour of their argument and in the manner they presented, it was a big let down. My experience of today prompted me to write a request any expert, who participates in panel discussion, he/she should take following considerations into mind to not to let down the audience: 1)       Don’t take your audience for granted :   Your studio audience can be manipulated, but please understand that you are airing your opinion to millions of viewers sitting in their drawing room. They won’t buy your opinion just like that. 2)       Don’t oppose something just for...

I am big fan of Management Guru and writers Late C.K.Prahlad, Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Thomas L. Friedman, Jeff Jarvis and businessmen like Sergei Binn and Larry Page, who are founders of concept of openness in business, inclusion of ‘Crowd’ in decision making process and making the world understand power of ‘crowd’. What is crowd; a huge group of people with varied interest, culture, lifestyle, thinking etc. So, how can they be included in the decision making process, how can anybody even think of taking it along in their business journey other than considering them as a complicated market. Google has made it possible, Facebook is following the footstep; both are offering their users the services they want and no doubt, both the companies are a world in itself. Apple is biggest technology company as of now, which worked on the premise of its founder that customers don’t know they want until they are being told about it, but it has now been forced to heed the customer d...

We often crib that whatever has turned out is not exactly what we had planned. We blame others, we blame circumstances, we blame timing; in short, we blame everybody and everything else other than ourselves. Is it really so; are we not responsible for whatever has happened to us? Definitely we are the main reason behind our failure. So, what we should do get the best result for our efforts? I have listed out following seven reasons, which may help in getting best outcome: 1)       Your Target Should Be Clear To You : There is a story in Mahabharata, biggest epic of ancient times of India; Sage Dronacharya was entrusted with the task of educating ‘Kauravas’ and ‘Pandavas’. Since, they all were princes, combat and fighting skills were also part of their curriculum. One day, Sage Dronacharya put a bird made of wood on one branch of tree, fully laden with leafs, and asked all them to take the target of bird’s eye. He called everybody one by one and asked the...