Category: Ideas

Ideas

6 Ways to keep your thinking fresh

Realising The first step to keep your thinking fresh is the realisation that this is important and one needs to be intentional about this. Once, we put our intention behind this, our subconscious mind will take this as important and will keep noticing stuff that will enable us to find ways to keep our thinking fresh. Exposing The next step to keep your thinking fresh is to keep exposing yourself to fresh thinking happening around you. You could read books (or blogs), listen to audio-books (or podcasts) or watch interviews or keynote presentations (on youtube), attend conferences and network with […]

Ideas, Leadership

7 Lessons in Leadership, Diversity And a Culture of Learning from an Animated Short Film

I stumbled upon a short animated video which did such a great job of showcasing the kind of leadership and a learning culture that will be needed to succeed in a workplace – which operates in a volatile business environment, has a multi-generational workforce and wants to thrive by moving forward. Before we can continue, pls take the two or so minutes to watch the video below.   I hope you enjoyed the video, without having to think about and trying to learn something from the video. In this video: The younger one represents the younger employees in your organisation. The Older […]

Ideas

Is Surge Pricing Coming of Age?      

Uber, Ola and AirBnB all are known to have surge pricing in place. So do cineplexes. They increase their prices anytime a new movie of a superstar hits the theatres. Hotels, airlines are known to have done this for ages and done well. In a press release yesterday, the ministry of Railways in India announced that they are “Introduction of Flexi Fare system for Rajdhani/Duronto and Shatabdi trains“. Though they refer to this as Flexi fare, this indeed is a move towards surge pricing or is it. What has changed is that Toronto International Film Festival did a similar thing […]

Business Model, Ideas, Innovation, Strategy

The Future of Banking –  Promises and Threats

The past decade has already seen a lot of industry structures being redefined with leaders going bust and new age companies taking their place. One of the industries that seems to be on the cusp of going through a similar upheaval seems to be the banking industry.  If you look at what a bank does at its core, it is only two things:  Collect money from parties (individuals, businesses and governments) and keep them safe and pay them whenever they need the same back. Banks in most economies pays a simple interest (and in some countries, charge a fee to […]