Strategies and tactics to get lucky in business and in life
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2010
As strange as it seems I enjoy shopping for groceries at the supermarket. And there is no doubt that because of my different moods on the day I don’t always get everything I need in one visit. So I tend to visit the supermarket at least two or three times per week. I guess that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2010
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo – Italian sculptor, painter, architect & poet, considered the creator of the Renaissance, 1475-1564)
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2010
Collaboration is one of the most effective enablers of heading down new, creative and innovative paths. One brain is simply one brain. Five people collaborating, however, is five brains. The five brains bounce off each other, inspire, motivate, annoy and become a catalyst for new thoughts and new ideas. Collaborative interactions create and innovate. Musicians [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2010
As a business consultant I am into planning – planning that is broad with lots of wriggle room, planning that is succinctly articulated on the back of a napkin and planning that incorporates Keep it Simple Stupid design. The key to good planning is wriggle room because plans never work out the way that is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2010
Sachin Agarwal, founder of blogging platform Posterous spent 6 years at Apple as an engineer and recounts are number of interesting lessons learned from the company’s management style. One of these lessons is a pursuit of luck lesson – ignore what your competitors are doing, do something that challenges. “Apple doesn’t believe in playing the “feature game” with [its] [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2010
We have all seen the time machine cliché. Homer Simpson goes back in time and alters the time continuum by sneezing on a dinosaur and when he returns to the future donuts are not food but rather it rains donuts. In Back to the Future II, Biff, while in the future, steals a sports almanac and returns to the [...]