Leadership

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 13, 2012

Five Paradoxes of building a successful Product Business

[I wrote this post on 27th Sep 2012, for ProductNation and Nasscom Product Conclave Blog] Building products is hard. Building a successful product organization is even harder. Start-up ecosystem is replete with ideas and prototypes. Few of them reach the market with a product and very few turn up as successful. And, a minuscule number of product businesses are Continue reading

Business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing

Best practices, Business, Business Models, Business Paradox, Business Strategy, Decision Making, Entreprenuership, Leadership, Lessons, linkedin, marketing, Product Business, Product Management, Start-up, Strategy Paradox
October 8, 2012

Content Marketing Strategy in Implementation, from Coca-Cola

The new business landscape demands for a different marketing approach. I’m an advocate of Content Marketing strategy (where fit), and have been often asked to explain what it is, how is it different from other stuff the company may be doing, and most important, how does it translate into the difference in implementation in a… Continue reading

Innovation, Leadership, Marketing

Best practices, Business Strategy, Coca Cola, Content Excellence, content marketing, Content Strategy, Hubspot, Inbound Marketing, Jonathan Mildenhall, Leadership, Lessons, linkedin, marketing, Social Media
April 30, 2012

Top Game-Changer Trends You Can’t Ignore

I’m no crystal gazer, and this is no crystal gazing. The reality is upon us already. Certain keywords and phrases have kept popping in my head for sometime now. I see them everywhere. There’s plenty of evidence already that the world is going through disruptions at various levels. These trends are touching everyone’s life. Well, I’m Continue reading

Business, Cloud Computing, Design, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Technology, Trends

Business, Business Models, Careers, Disruption, Leadership, linkedin, Mobility, Social Networking, Technology, The Future, Trends
March 31, 2010

Bridge Those Silos with Incentive Alignment and KPIs

Silos within the organizations boil down to plain WIIFM (What’s In It For Me?), the way organizations measure performance and the type of behaviors they encourage. There’s a relationship among KPIs, Objectives, Expectations, Inspection, and Incentives. We can bridge the silos by understanding this, and effectively using the technology and tools available to us once… Continue reading

BPM, Business, Leadership, Management, Technology

Best practices, BPM, Business, Business Objectives, Collaboration, Human Behavior, Incentive Alignment, KPI, Leadership, Lessons, linkedin, Management, Organization, Performance, Performance Measurement, Technology

Leadership

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

Five Paradoxes of building a successful Product Business

Content Marketing Strategy in Implementation, from Coca-Cola

Top Game-Changer Trends You Can’t Ignore

Bridge Those Silos with Incentive Alignment and KPIs