Aug 20, 2012 So, when the dotcom boom of 1998-99 was going on, there were Indian dotcom business models based on advertising revenues, copied from US dotcom models. That the US had a 100bn$ advertising revenue and India had 1bn$ at that time was something these companies were not looking at, at all. Anyways, I … Continue reading The advertising industry – some disparate stats..and emergence of Online !!

July 25, 2012 And here’s my humble attempt at simplifying the recipe for success in the corporate world. Since people love bundling management formulas by using words with the same starting letter, I shall call my 4-I (one more than Lord Shiva’s...must be powerful). So, what I am saying is that if you want to … Continue reading My 4-I formula for corporate success

July 1, 2012 An interesting article in the Economist on diversified businesses of Africa. Sounds suspiciously similar to the Indian environment 25 years back. Looks like African businessmen are getting into 5-60 businesses each, six being the average for the top 200 groups. The reasons for doing these are as follows : Talent is scarce … Continue reading African businesses – the next big thing ?

June 15, 2012 One of my friends from b-school had told me 18 years back that he used to plot every person he met on a Sincerity-Competence 2x2 matrix. That was one of the top ten lessons I have retained from going to b-school (different from studying in a b-school – a full article on … Continue reading Attitude – the under-rated “Y-Axis”…(and other 2×2 matrices)

May 21, 2012 So, I was invited as a “corporate figure” to help out in the candidate selection process for the MBA course of one of the leading b-schools of Mumbai. 4000 kids were being interviewed over 4 days, 1000 each day. Group Discussion (GD) followed by Personal Interview (PI), followed by a psychometric test … Continue reading The new b-school generation…changing scene