Reasons could be many, but the problem remains the same. Be it in India, America, Australia or anywhere in the world. Be it a CEO, a manager or a clerk; the feeling is unanimous, 'the weekend just vanished!' I tried to get some interesting aspects online, but couldn't find anything meaningful. One of them say, you need to look for the next weekend to beat Monday blues. Wow, what a way to start a productive week! I personally use these 7 methods to avoid Monday Blues. Needn’t to say, I have...
about 20 hours ago • 2 min read
"You can't solve a problem at the same level it was created, you have to rise above it to the next level." - Albert Einstein In the heat of starting startups just for valuations, the Indian Entrepreneurs are missing on the originality of the ideas and creativity. The startup buzz in India is so high that everybody wants a share of it. And in this rush, we are missing the very fundamentals. A startup's philosophy should be to solve a problem, not just make money. It should believe in creating...
about 20 hours ago • 1 min read
‘A chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a chimpanzee at all.’ – Wolfgang Kohler We all live our own movie. We take the main role and act to our best. Everybody in this world is living his or her own movie. Some have serious movies; few action oriented; horror, fantasy, comedy, sentimental, boring and creepy. What’s your movie? Someone who believes in sentiments, lives a sentimental movie. His or her world revolves around that. Someone who believes life is all about taking risks lives a movie of...
about 21 hours ago • 1 min read
Everybody needs one! To capture minutes, make checklists, note discussion points or action points, take notes in a classroom and many more uses. Well, I am talking about a writing pad or a notebook that we use on a day-to-day basis. I know that we are moving from a writing pad to a digital notepad with tremendous infuse of smart phones into the market. With this, we also want to become smart, so we have started using tools like Apple Notes, Google Docs, Evernote, Any.Do, OneNote and many more...
about 22 hours ago • 2 min read
"Hi Rocky, it was pleasure talking to you on phone this morning. Please send me a calendar invite for the meeting that we agree for next week. Let’s discuss the project report in detail in this meeting." How many times do we hear this? We have great tools like Outlook and Google calendars to plan our time well. But do we really do so? Many of us don't see the power of these great tools. Is it because we are not used to using these tools from our school or college times? Or, is this habit just...
about 22 hours ago • 2 min read
We are in the age of networking. So many avenues, events, and forums that are available to almost all of us, almost at ease. I see a lot of people make good use of these forums to build strong networks and connects. Like always, there are pros and cons to everything, and so is with networking. Though it's an integral part of your business, it's time-consuming, expensive, and also sucks a lot of your energy. At times, you even feel dejected in case the event is not as per your taste or...
about 22 hours ago • 2 min read
Day by day, hour by hour, second by second, it’s getting intense and worse. Humans are becoming slaves to mobile gadgets and they have started living in a world of their own. Unfortunately, we are now more comfortable talking to our phones than saying a hello to the person standing right next to us. We don’t mind spending hours checking and re-checking status updates and some junk forwards rather than spending few minutes with our loved ones at home. I bet 90% of us doesn’t even know who our...
about 22 hours ago • 2 min read
𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗻𝘂𝗺 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝟯 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮. Their margins right now? The CEO's own words: "Still not very good." And yet they are tripling capacity. That is either recklessness or it is one of the most calculated bets in Indian consumer markets today. I think it is the latter. Here is why. 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮. In 2005, China's per capita ice cream consumption was barely 1 litre per person per year. Largely a tea-and-savory culture, ice cream was a summer curiosity, not a...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Every generation has looked at the next one and sighed deeply. It's practically a tradition at this point. The Boomers were called idealistic dropouts. Gen X were labelled nihilistic slackers. Millennials were the avocado-toast-eating narcissists who couldn't afford homes (for the record - that's a housing crisis, not a character flaw). And Gen Z? Direction-less. Distracted. Too online. Allergic to hard work. The pattern is so consistent across history that psychologists have a name for it,...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read