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7 Habits of Effective Early-stage Entrepreneurs that are counter-productive to scale
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management, Marketing on December 14, 2012
Entrepreneurs & Start-up leaders that are successful in the Jump-start phase are so because of certain effective habits that they either have or have developed during the initial phase. However, the same habits, if carried forward too long become counter-productive to scale for their business. The main reason being that once the business is off the ground, it’s not about the entrepreneur any more, but about the engine that propels the business. Here are seven such habits that are very effective for entrepreneurs in the early stage, but can potentially become counter-productive as business scales. […]
Dear LinkedIn, Rethink the Endorsements. You’re not Facebook or Twitter!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Technology on October 4, 2012
LinkedIn is a professional network. LinkedIn should want to improve credibility of the professional credentials & demographics that are recorded on LinkedIn, for the growth of their money-making businesses of “Jobs”, “networking”, and even “Ads”. Alas, Endorsements are targeted to something else altogether. Traffic & social plug, it seems. For the sanctity of professional credentials of millions of professionals who made you the leading professional network, LinkedIn needs to rethink the implementation of endorsements. This is net-net negative value right now!
When Ideas have Sex. Of Development Kingdoms and Developer Kingship.
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Architecture, Business, Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior, Innovation, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology, Trends on September 25, 2012
Apple App Store has 700,000 Apps. Google Play has 450,000 Apps. Number of Apps submitted on iOS App store alone nears a 1000/day. Any statistics in terms of Apps is astounding in numbers – millions & billions. And to imagine that none of this even existed few years back! What’s amazing here is not just […]
Think again. Social Media is not a Job, it’s a Skill!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Marketing, Technology on September 18, 2012
If I started off with saying Social Media is important for Businesses, I’d sound time-shifted backward by at least 2 years. Everyone knows that already. In the last year or so, I’ve not heard a single serious business that’s not trying to “do” some social media. They typically start with a Twitter Account, an FB […]
The “Left Brain v/s Right Brain” Fallacy & The New World Order
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Technology, Trends on July 16, 2012
Our Left Brain tells us – based on reasoning – that, Left Brain deals with the Science & reasoning while the Right Brain deals with Art & Creativity. Therein lies the fallacy of the “Left Brain – Right Brain” dichotomy that has developed over time and frozen into over minds. For a long time, I […]
The Eclectic Zone Makeover…
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Life on July 7, 2012
A change of theme, little bit of structure, but that’s not all… Most of my posts in past 2 years have been long, pretty long — What comprises the Definitive Core of BPM? The new role of IT – from Cost Center to Business Platform Provider Defining BPM and State thereof – The Perspectives at Play However, I’ve […]
To B(log) or Not to B(log)? A Year of Blogging. Or Not!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Entertainment on April 6, 2012
This is weird. My last post on this blog is dated a year ago! :O Weird, because I didn’t think this could happen. Weird, because looking back one would feel that in those 365 days I would have easily had few minutes to write about something, anything – there has been plenty I have felt […]
Incentive! What Incentive?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Human Behavior, Leadership, Management on March 19, 2011
There are many employees (if you want to call them that) that love their job so much that they just don’t care what the incentive is. They just want to excel at what they do. They just love the work they do. And that’s the kind of employee one should ever want in their team for the right job. No incentive ever helps if the person you employed doesn’t love doing “what you expect them to do”.
Systems Today, Culture Tomorrow. Don’t Tweak!
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management on June 15, 2010
Not all organizations may realize that some of the tweaks in policies and systems actually end up as the key determinant of the longer term direction that “organizational culture” takes. When tweaking systems and policies for shorter term goals, do not lose sight of the longer term effects on culture and mindset of people working in the organization. Systems and Policies of today are the organizational culture of tomorrow!
What’s in a Shopping Bag?
Posted by Ashish Bhagwat in Business, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management, Marketing on April 28, 2010
Post the ban on plastic shopping bags, many retailers have resorted to selling bags made of alternative materials. What they do not realize is that a decision to not offer it for free or for an amount of sale hurts their business more than they realize! Huge price to pay for few thousand bucks on shopping bags.
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Ashish Bhagwat
Scholar for life.
A graduate in Engineering and Business Management with interests in Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Technology, BPM and Cloud Computing.
The Eclectic Zone 