Insanely Interesting People who Influenced Me: #11 Zig Ziglar

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Introduction to Selling for Product Managers and Developers

In this post, I share insights from a session that I delivered to a product development team about the fundamental concepts in sales and selling.

If you are new to selling or want to take up selling as a career, this is a good place to start.

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Participating and Hosting Effective Virtual Meetings

Premise:   Can you hear me?   You are on mute.   I can’t hear you.   Let me put on my headphones.   Sorry, I did not understand, can you pls repeat that.   Your voice is breaking off.   There is a lot of echo..   Can everyone go on mute please?   Suddenly, these have become the most used phrase in our lives. Suddenly, we are in a place where all travel and the perks that come along with it, have vanished and we are expected to continue to be productive while working virtually.   Everything from […]

Reigniting Growth

Premise:   As we slowly open up the world economy and learn to live with what has turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, almost all businesses will be looking to figure out a way to grow their businesses as quickly as possible and as fast as the current situation will allow them to grow.   If there is one thing that I have learnt in the last two and a half decade of working, it is that sustained growth requires a lot of thinking and deliberate action with a clearly defined and articulated strategy and goals.   Ad hoc […]