Tag: Ideas

Innovation, Recommendation

Best Among What I Read Today, The Corporate Edition – Jan 2nd 2017

This is a collection of posts that I loved reading today and I hope that you will like as well. How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life In this HBR post, Paul Leinwand & Varya Davidson share the importance of the alignment of culture and strategy in the success of an enterprise. It is clear to any leader who has tried to create and execute on a new strategy, how difficult it is to get people to change the way they do things (culture). I strongly believe that the culture comes ahead of strategy. So, if you have a strategy that requires your teams […]

Ideas, Innovation

7 Ways You can Train Yourself to Get Creative Ideas

We all live in a world where our ability to come up with creative ideas and run with them is one of the biggest competitive advantage that we could have in our professional and personal lives. So, if you agree and think that you want to hone this skill to become someone who is good at this, the following 7 practices will be of help: Travel & Experience: Travelling to new places forces your mind to become aware of things around you. You start noticing things that you would otherwise not notice in your home town. Travelling also exposes you […]

Ideas

40 + 15 Alternatives to College

The value that college education brings to a student has been questioned for sometime now. I had earlier written about this challenge here, here and here. The increasing amount of student debt combined with the rising unemployment rates are a testament to the fact that the conventional education system is not currently broken. In this situation, James Altucher has listed down 40 alternate ideas to a formal college education (which comes with the debt) in a slide deck that he shared on slide share. [slideshare id=35097363&doc=40alternativestocollege-140525100902-phpapp02] I would like to add my own list of alternatives to college education as below: […]

Marketing, Sales

How (Not) to Demo

Last week I attended a conference, where during the keynote, a cool new product was introduced and someone asked to show a demo of the product. The presenter lost the audience in two minutes flat, not due to the product not being cool, but due to the way the demo was run. I learnt the following from the demo about the art of running demos. I learnt that Talking and showing features and functions does not work anymore. Context is the key ingredient. Ensure that the demo is visible to everyone in the audience. In this case, the people sitting […]

Ideas, Leadership

Simple but not easy

The solution to most complex problems that you could ever encounter are almost always Simple, but not easy! You want to increasei your profits; Solution is to grow your sales and reduce your costs, together. Simple, but not easy. You want to increase your sales; Keep your existing customers happy so they buy more from you and keep adding more customers to the system. Simple, but not easy. You want to reduce your costs; reduce and eliminate all activities that do not contribute to either acquire or service a customer. Simple, but not easy. You want to transform yourself from […]