Category Archives: Business

Book Review: It Happened In India

Posted on May 1, 2012 by RK

Long ago, Devdutt Pattanaik amazed me with his interpretation of mythology and how it can be put to use in business context. He was working as the Chief Belief Officer for Future Group, which is when I first read about … Continue reading →

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What’s your secret sauce?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by RK

To be of any relevance to other people, especially in business, you have to have a secret sauce. You may say it is your skill, your flair, your attitude, your perseverance, your sociability, your networked-ness, your professionalism or any combination … Continue reading →

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Could Amazon come up with a phone?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by RK

When Mel Gibson offers to lose in all the hands in the first 60 minutes of poker in the movie Maverick, no one at the table realizes why. When his 60 minutes are up, he has learnt enough about everyone … Continue reading →

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Simple is difficult

Posted on October 25, 2011 by RK

Its amazing what the possibilities are, when you apply the “simple is difficult” angle to our life and the things that are part of it. Being an alumnus of Apple Inc must have given the Nest team enough publicity to … Continue reading →

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Job of a CEO

Posted on October 10, 2011 by RK

Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix, already committed multiple mistakes by making unplanned and abrupt changes to the pricing structure for its DVD and streaming based movie rental services. Consumers and investors don’t like uncertainty; and showing the path to future … Continue reading →

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I invented a word

Posted on October 7, 2011 by RK

Okay, may be not quite. But we all invent new words that help us articulate something that would otherwise require lot of words. Of course, the person we are speaking to should know the word we use – but once … Continue reading →

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Ecosystems at War

Posted on September 29, 2011 by RK

When the number of cell-phone subscribers in India surpassed the fixed-line subscribers, we defined it as a mobile revolution, appropriately so. But it limited itself mostly to making and receiving phone calls. What the US and much of the developed … Continue reading →

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Net Neutrality – What is the true cost?

Posted on September 28, 2011 by RK

I have written several times about Net Neutrality. You can read my prior articles here, here and here. During the process of writing and afterwards, I have asked myself “What could be a valid anti-net-neutrality argument?”. I then figured, the … Continue reading →

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Executive Mistakes

Posted on September 19, 2011 by RK

I felt the CEO of NetFlix attempted to make a connection with his customers in a personal sort of way, when he sent that letter of apology with some brutally-honest-sounding words in the message. Not long ago, if you remember, the … Continue reading →

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USPS and its survival

Posted on September 7, 2011 by RK

The USPS is United States’ postal service with a very bold statement – while private sector enterprises (read: the big banks) are using taxpayers’ money to recover from the crisis they created, USPS, though a public enterprise, has been self-sufficient most of … Continue reading →

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