I am again (!) reading Straight from the gut by Jack Welch. With many contacts with present and former executives from GE what amazes me is that these variety of executives sing the same song as Jack Welch even ten years after Welch retired. And guess what – they have not really read Jack’s books-Continue reading “Jack Welch and the “Buy-Make-Sell” sell for non-profits”
Category Archives: Globalization
Apple makes computing friendly, offers tangibe products and overtakes Microsoft
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BP Oil Leak and Marketing Myopia – the upstream product recall
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Overcoming the mid-career, mid-skill problem – Part-II
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What’s next for American mid-careers with globalization and the recession?-Part-I
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Reducing cycle time from theory to practice- Yale 2010 Consumer Insights Conference
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-857684-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} The Yale 2010 Consumer Insights Conference turned out to be wonderful.This was the first time that I was at a conference that had an equal mix of academicsContinue reading “Reducing cycle time from theory to practice- Yale 2010 Consumer Insights Conference”
100 years of Mark Twain- 4000 words a day with an ink pen while at Hartford !
Today, April 21, 2010 is 100 years of Mark Twain one of the most interesting denizens of Hartford,Connecticut. If you ever pass through Hartford do check out the Mark Twain House on Farmington Avenue. Here Twain spent many of his most productive years as a writer.
On the passing of CK Prahalad -core competence and bottom of the pyramid
Professor CK Prahalad passed away last weekend on 16th October, 2010. He was one of the most influential business thinkers of our time and has influenced me a great deal.I think two of his ideas are particularly fascinating. These are core competence of the corporation (co authored with Gary Hamel) and Bottom of the pyramid (with Stuart Hart).
Slow recovery or fast recovery? depends on tapping into global innovation
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Innovation and Seth Godin’s “Linchpin”
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-857684-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} I am about halfway through Seth Godin's new book Linchpin. Seth does a very interesting analysis of the way education has developed to support the Taylor notion ofContinue reading “Innovation and Seth Godin’s “Linchpin””