The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions

By Rolf Dobelli  Hodder & Stoughton, 2013  Overpaid in an EBay auction? Continued doing something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late or too early? Taken credit…

Squaring the Circle: Seven Steps to Indian Renaissance

By Arun Tiwari, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Universities Press (2013)  The success of the IT industry and Indian human resources in global enterprises has made India a seemingly wealthy…

Ratan Tata’s magic turnaround formula

Mr. Ratan Tata has given the world of business a magic formula about how to turn around big sick foreign companies. This formula has worked more than once. It’s not…

Wipro, HCL in elite Greenpeace Cool IT list

Two Indian IT companies, (Wipro 5th and HCL 13th) have made it much ahead of several Fortune 100 global companies in Greenpeace sixth annual ranking of 20 Cool IT companies…

Agile Selling During Slow Down

Recessions and slowdowns force companies to become innovative with their sales strategy. Unlike before sales function has become more complex and requires alignment between sales, marketing and service. Agile selling…

USP is dead, long live UFP

by Rohit Bidappa When I studied marketing in the 90s, an entire generation of marketers learnt to centralise our thinking and planning around the Unique Selling Proposition or USP. Its place…

Solving Problems of the Poor Deep Capability and Hard Work

Dr. Nachiket Mor, Chairman – SughaVazhvu Healthcare and Former Deputy MD of ICICI Bank has taken to social entrepreneurship in the health sector as his second career and is very…

Knowing Aravind Sitaraman

Aravind Sitaraman is a rare man – A computer scientist with 57 patents at Cisco and a 2012 Karnataka Rajyotsava Award winner for social service. Son of a freedom fighter,…