Category: Ideas

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Does Google really need Sex ?

Paul Krugman wrote a post titled “Google Needs Sex” which was interesting to read. Lately, Google bashing has become fashionable. Everyone is complaining about the issues that Google has and why it is in its decline. I am sure that this will increase in ferver and quantity. Everyone has been complaining about the quality of results of search being the trouble at Google. My personal opinion is that the actual culprit is Google’s business model based on the Adsense program. It is because of this business model that the entire SEO industry cropped up and created a mess of their […]

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Meetings, meetings and more meetings

We all have been through a lot of meetings and know that a lot of these meetings are Mis-managed Kill time Reduces organizational productivity Boring Yet, we can’t do away with meetings completely as they are also required to do business. There are many ideas to improve the effectiveness of these meetings. Seth Godin in his blog talks about Making meetings more expensive which will ensure that there are less of meetings and would be more productive. Some un-conventional ideas to make meetings interesting and little more productive could be Have stand-up meetings. No place to sit down. No meeting […]

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Best sales and Business books in 2010

I read a post by Erica Stritch on the best sales and business books for 2010 and was impressed by the books that made it to her list. Among other books, she also mentions the following books, which I have personally found both interesting and inspiring for a sales person:  SNAP Selling – Jill Konrath The Little big things – Tom Peters Linchpin – Seth Godin Mojo – Marshall Goldsmith Drive – Daniel Pink Do you know of any other book which is interesting and in the same league as the one’s I found interesting? 

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Google on it’s way downhill?

Google has had a great run till now what with their innovations on monetizing their biggest strength – Search. There also has been a lot of talk on how the last slew of products coming out of Google have not hot the bull’s eye (maybe with the exception of Android and Chrome). We also have seen an exodus of talent from Google to its rival FaceBook and the lengths Google has gone to stop it. Does all of this indicate the start of the decline of Google as the internet superpower ? Is there someone already in the making who […]