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Self-help guru on learning

By Brij ⋅ May 27, 2007 ⋅ 9 comments

Robin Sharma belongs to the new breed of self-help gurus. Fully comfortable with the new social media to spread his mantra. Right down to the blog and podcast.
Gurus like Robin Sharma and Anthony Robbins are what you can call 24-Hour-Fitness equivalent to Bertrand Russell’s marathon pace philosophy. They offer Schopenhauer-to-go and provide life’s [...]

Google and the art of keeping everybody guessing

By Brij ⋅ April 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

So inevitable has happened and Google announced presentation software to go with their Google Docs suite. As a user I just love the possibilities.
Techmeme is buzzing with opinions. Google would love to have all information works sitting on their applications from morning till evening, so that they can keep showing the relevant neon lights. [...]

Learning from the best

By Brij ⋅ April 9, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Google CEO sharing interesting insights on how Google tries to learn from other great companies:
..couple of positive analogies for Google, I think. One is Intel, one is Sony, and one is Dell. And I think each of them have strengths. Intel is easy. When they came over to visit with us, Larry and Sergey and [...]

Contenders for the social entrepreneur award

By Brij ⋅ November 26, 2006 ⋅ One comment

World Economic Forum will be selecting a winner from the impressive list of social enterpreneurs:
Amitabha Sadangi of International Development Enterprises India (IDEI). IDEI has developed and marketed affordable small-plot micro-irrigation technologies to India’s marginal and small farmers.
Padmanabha Rao and Rama Rao of Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER). RIVER has developed a multi-grade, multi-level [...]

Non-null Venn diagram

By Brij ⋅ October 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting anecdote about Bob Metcalfe in this introduction (real video file). It seems long time back he said if one were to draw a Venn diagram of all pin-striped VCs and all thiefs, the intersection would be non-null !Climate Collaboratorium (pdf) project is very interesting. Harnessing collective intelligence to generate ideas and solutions for solving [...]

Interesting startups

By Brij ⋅ September 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Not getting enough time to write longer posts lately. There are few themes running into mind but they require some isolation before they become coherent. One is about the importance of “second bottom line” - term used by George Soros while talking to Michael Krasny. It got me thinking hard about what I am doing [...]

Nooyi’s rise to the top

By Brij ⋅ August 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Strategy lessons from early age:
After dinner, Nooyi’s mother would present world problems to Nooyi andher sister to solve, such as what would you do if you were the primeminister of India, according to a 2004 article in India New England. Atthe end, her mother would decide who was the winner.
I think in Nooyi’s success gender [...]

Contrarian view

By Brij ⋅ July 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Now there is a contrarian view -
Winblad also predicted that many of the offices that venture firms are opening in China, India and elsewhere around the globe will be shuttered in a few years given the localized nature of building companies and the industry’s track record in being reluctant to weather downturns in these [...]

Fall of the Hit

By Brij ⋅ July 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Chris Anderson’s take on the demise of hit phenomena reads like a manifesto for user-generated-content philosophy
The mass market is yielding to a million minimarkets. Hits will always be with us, but they have lost their monopoly. Blockbusters must now compete with an infinite number of niche offerings, which can be distributed just as easily. [...]

Collaboration: Key driver of this wave

By Brij ⋅ June 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

There is lot of chatter on the net about the right definition of web2.0 and it’s role in the Enterprise world. BusinessWeek interview of Ray Lane got this chatter to another level. Of all the people who commented on this meme Peter Rip’s analysis stands out:
He nailed this by analyzing from the key driver point [...]

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