Category: Ideas

Ideas

Why promoting your people is a bad idea

It is that time of the year, when most of the organizations are conducting their annual performance review and hand out the rewards (promotions, bonuses, share options, etc). Employee promotions play a very important part in the entire cycle. This is how, companies recognize and reward high performers. This is how people move up the ladder in organizations. Early in the 20th century, most of the labor was physical and repetitive and was individual in nature. It was in this era that rewarding individual performance was a way to improve organizational productivity. Then came an era where team work started […]

Entrepreneurship, Ideas

It takes a team to win!

Building a team Tell me o Sir, when is the time to go looking out And get a team who would work it out He says: ” That’s a great topic that you have brought up One that’s most difficult for a start-up The best time to build a team Is when you are getting started-up Delay it a bit and you might not have a start-up Get it wrong and for sure you will not have a start-up This is one of those things that could either destroy Or give a new-lease of life Hmm, I understand this now […]

Ideas

Gaming & social concepts applied to make test drives fun

I bought a car last month (Skoda Fabia). The entireexperience of buying the car was less than satisfactory on many counts. I wasonly able to take a short test drive (2Kms) around the showroom. This was thesame case with all the dealerships. When I asked that I would like to take a longertest drive and in different road conditions, I was always indicated that itwould be difficult to manage & turned down. The sales folks went on ranting about the car technology, engine capacity and all the other features of the car not bother to even understand my needs. For […]

Ideas

11 things you could do to beat the stress due to traffic jam

Build a playlist of your favorite music, one thatpumps you up and listen to it when stuck in a traffic jam. Use the record voice mode on your phone (most phoneshave it) to record your thoughts on any topic. You could even record your to dolist for the day on the phone. You could also record a love note for your hubby(or loved one’s) and send it to them as a voice message or play it to them onceyou reach home. Keep a book handy (for all you book-lovers). Read wheneverstuck in a jam where the traffic does not move […]

Ideas

10 things Kingfisher could do to save itself

Limit the number of check-in counters at allairports to one or two. Build and use self-service baggage check-ins. Discourageuse of the counters by charging customers who still use the counters tocheck-in themselves and their baggage. This will help reduce their employee countand also the rent that they pay for the real estate to the airports. Instead of providing a 5 course meal on the flight,provide vouchers to all passengers redeemable at either the originating orarriving airports to buy fresh food. This will help reduce their cost of servingthe customers and also enable customers to have freshly made food and offers […]