Human Behavior

December 14, 2012

7 Habits of Effective Early-stage Entrepreneurs that are counter-productive to scale

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… Continue reading

Business, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management, Marketing

Best practices, Business, Business Growth, Crowing the Company, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Entreprenuership, Genetic code, Heroism, Jugaad, Leadership, linkedin, Organization, Ownership, Small business, Start-up, Startup company
October 4, 2012

Dear LinkedIn, Rethink the Endorsements. You’re not Facebook or Twitter!

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… Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Technology

Business Strategy, Facebook, linkedin, marketing, Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter
September 25, 2012

When Ideas have Sex. Of Development Kingdoms and Developer Kingship.

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 Continue reading

Architecture, Business, Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior, Innovation, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology, Trends

Amazon, Apple, Application Development, Azure, BaaS, Backend as a Service, Business, Cloud, cloudmine, Collaboration, Enterprise Architecture, force.com, Google, J-I-T, linkedin, MBaaS, OrangeScape, PaaS, rackspace, SaaS, salesforce, ShepHertz, stackmob, Technology, Trends
September 18, 2012

Think again. Social Media is not a Job, it’s a Skill!

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 Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Marketing, Technology

Business, Business Strategy, Digital Marketing, Facebook, Human Behavior, linkedin, marketing, Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Trends, Twitter
July 16, 2012

The “Left Brain v/s Right Brain” Fallacy & The New World Order

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 Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Technology, Trends

Black Swan, Business, Business Strategy, Chris Anderson, Divided Brain, Free Business Model, Ian McGilchrist, knowledge economy, Left Brain, left brain right brain, linkedin, Long tail, Right Brain, Technology, Trends
March 19, 2011

Incentive! What Incentive?

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… Continue reading

Human Behavior, Leadership, Management

Best practices, Human Behavior, linkedin, Management, Motivation
June 15, 2010

Systems Today, Culture Tomorrow. Don’t Tweak!

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… Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management

Agility, Business, Human Behavior, Lessons, linkedin, Management, Organization, Organizational Culture, Performance, Policies, Processes, Systems
April 28, 2010

What’s in a Shopping Bag?

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… Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Leadership, Management, Marketing

Business, economics, freakonomics, grocery stores, Human Behavior, linkedin, retail, Shopping bags, Strategy
February 4, 2010

The Charity Dilemma: Serving Self To Serve Others

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] My sister & her colleagues are part of a charitable NGO-NPO (Non Govt – Non Profit org) at Indore, somewhere in central India. An easily excitable bunch of people, and actually very excited about the work they do. She mentioned about a pretty successful outing they had with a seminar covering the Continue reading

Business, Human Behavior, Leadership

Business, Charity, Management, NGO, Non-Profit, NPO, Professionalism, Social Cause
February 2, 2010

Answering nature’s call? Why not just take a P!$$?

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] It really intrigues me how certain words become taboos, while some other (with the same meaning, mind you) remain acceptable in our civil society. How is it that a certain word “sh!#” is a strict No-No, while “crap” is still acceptable? How about “Damn it” v/s “Darn it”. Both are just words Continue reading

Human Behavior, Philosophy

Euphemism, Human Behavior, Taboo