Capitalist Puzzle 01

You have a commodity over which you hold the monopoly, the worlds biggest reserve of this resource is under your control. The second biggest reservoir of the commodity was recently found in a deserted island. Which came as both a good and bad news for you.
Good news is that, your reserve will hardly last for 70 years and when it runs out you wont be out of business. Planet has more time to develop an alternative!

Brainstorming 2.0

Brainstorming is considered to be the best idea generation technique, especially in countries like America, India, Japan and Thailand. For about the past seven decades brainstorming officially has been the solution to all questions in an organization.


Hence it would come as surprise to most managers, including top level executives, and even management consultants that this 'brilliant technique'  the way its done now, does not lead to much good.

Story of the watchmaker.

Once upon a time there lived a watch maker, his works so famous that  men traveled round the globe just to buy the watches he made. The watches he made was a synonym for perfection, if only better.
One fine day a man and his son walked into the old watchmakers store. Premium watches adorned the walls of the old building in east London. An aura of beauty surrounded the place.
It was early in the morning and the watchmaker had already started his work. The man who was in fact one of the highest authorities at the east India company walked with his son to the old man.

The one law to be insanely successful

The law: If you take money out of your pocket, how much ever it may be, how much ever rich or poor you may be, don’t spend it. Invest it! If you can’t invest it double it. How do you double it? Fold it into half and put the paper back!

It’s not about ‘on what you spend’ it’s all about the attitude. Suppose a great soul and mediocre mind is sitting in a restaurant a table apart enjoying the extremely expensive Almas Caviar. And if the mediocre guy is asked, why he is doing so, the reply probably would be “am rich, just chilling” Upon asked the same question the great soul would go “am investing” (He sure will do if he has read this article). That thin line hence is not about being stingy on spending money, but on ‘why you do it’. Not ‘what you do’ or ‘how you do’ but why.

Jugaad - Not just 'how' India works but 'why' India works.

Jugaad is the Indian contribution to the management world. Just like Japans Just In Time and Chinese ultra  large scale manufacturing. But what makes Jugaad perhaps one of the worlds best management technique is that its not just limited to management. Jugaad in India is practiced by all. By all i mean everyone from a corporate CEO to a dabbavalla exploit this great Indian gift to the world on a day to day basis. Meanwhile in western nations its done by scientists in labs. The basic definition of Jugaad is simply a quick fix. In many ways its similar to a hack or a kludge, the main difference being hack is more of a lifestyle thing, a form of 'intellectual art' while jugaad is a survival tactic and is practiced even in the grass root levels at large.

How positioning can build and break your brand; Why multi positioning is a very bad idea

Positioning is essential, anything and everything from political parties to candy bars need to be positioned. Not positioning a product or service is fatal. But always the product or service creates its own space and definition in the minds of the consumer. Hence no-positioning is seen only in the textbooks. But once you take a conscious step in positioning your product, challenge arises. But so do opportunity.

Readables

Education and Significance of Life By J Krishnamurti

The primary premise of the book is that nearly all of the education system (govt. based, religious based, private) fail our children. These systems educate children to be good at techniques or skills, but do not educate them to know themselves.
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The 48 Laws of Power By  Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene. Robert Greene takes elements of some of the world's most influential political thinkers to come up with the 48 Laws of Power, from Niccolò Machiavelli to Sun Tzu, he captures their most important points of power

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Fact: Natural disasters boost the nations economic growth!

Natural disasters have always been a burden for the human race, and it will continue to be. I am least interested to discuss the many ill effects of natural disasters, Google will give you a gazillion results for the same.We will now see that natural disasters just like coins, got two sides. We will discuss the brighter side of natural disasters, the long term economic side!


Natural disasters stimulate the economy! This is how it does-
Natural Disasters lead to destruction of property, to rebuild which the government spends millions or billions of dollars and use new resources and technologies. hence disasters lead to

Men, learn from cement - 1

Human life has got a pretty much big lesson to learn from cement.  A lesson worth learning especially if you are a leader. 

We all have seen how fast and easily an impression is made on cement when its just laid and wet. we also notice that these once quickly made impressions stay on them forever. These impressions define them. Human life is like cement, in young age whatever that happens around us is absorbed easily and the impression is made. Your family and social background, the character, believes and values of your near and dear all affect and shape the future you! 

The era of American dominance ends. Dragon calls for celebration.

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon said, “Let China sleep, when she wakes up, it will shake the world.” China has awakened. And now, it’s shaking the world to its foundations. Uncle Sam, you no longer are the numero Uno and China has just started. 

The poems i love

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love these inspires us to live on -  Robin Williams 

Innovation that counts

Once a man told that technology makes men lazy, men asked why, man replied "last month i bought a lawn mover a week after that i hired a man to use it". Yes technology makes us lazier, whats worse?, it also eats up our time and health...Then why do everyone promote technology? just because it makes life easier..or is it better to say lazier?    Nothing beats the value of time, But only a very little attention is given to developing technologies that really saves time. Saving time can be done by two ways,