Tag: Inspiration

Inspiration, Leadership

Hope and Purpose

One of the biggest challenges that we face as a generation is extreme polarisation, leading to a feeling of cynicism, despair and loneliness. Social media and an always on commentary about what we are missing out on (based on what people on social media are doing) only exacerbates these feelings. Add to that the current trend of business leaders mandating their employees to come back to office, albeit only for a few days in a week, is only adding fuel to the cynicism. On top of that is the layoffs that we see all around us is not helping. And […]

Ancient Wisdom, Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me: #3 Swami Vivekananda

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 […]

Ideas

How Do You Stay Inspired Everyday

I read a blog post today written by Robin Phillips with the same title and that got me thinking about how do I stay inspired and came up with the list below: Read I try to read a lot, everyday. My reading list is also very varied – from business blogs to design blogs to start-up news to innovation articles. The sheer diversity of what i read and the amount of creativity & innovation that i see happening in the world, through what i read keeps me motivated and inspired every single day. As much as it is important to […]

Ideas

3 Inspiring Videos

First video is an inspiring tale of someone who turned what many would assume to be a handicap into her strength and shows that if you really want to achieve something and are willing to pay the price, you can achieve anything in life. Second video is about a teacher who talks about the fact that every kid in this world needs someone who believes in the kid and what he/she can achieve. I believe this is true not only for the kids in school but for each of us at every stage in life. Third video is about how […]

Customer Engagement, Innovation

Targeted Advertising Vs Intrinsic Advertising

There has been a lot of interest lately in “Big Data” and how this will allow marketers to create campaigns that are targeted towards every individual consumer and hence will drive the consumption economy. I would like to differ on this. Though, there is no doubt that soon marketers will have the capability to be able to draw up and run such campaigns, I don’t believe that this form of advertising will be very effective. Our minds have the innate ability to mask everything that it does not want to see or acknowledge. Hence, the success rate of advertisement, however […]