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So, what are you looking at?

….If a simple, elegant, easy to read and easy to display number that’s most important to your business can be quickly established and then communicated to everyone, it helps a lots of things to fall in place…..So, it’s important to decide what metrics you adopt so as to measure your success internally and externally…..

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ALWAYS miss the Woods for the TREES..

The effort to be ‘special’ is a never-ending process. Big trees that stopped being special and tried to grow new avatars of themselves have suffered badly. Sony to me was the best ‘music machine maker’ out there – Music systems and Walkmans was Sony’s signature. Not any more. They got distracted making lots of other gadgetry and Apple’s iPod just lumber jacked them. Continue reading

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Can you solve the mystery of PRICE?

During this process, I stumbled upon an amazing insight – the price of Baby Socks for new borns (as young as 3 months) were the same as the price of Men’s socks as large as shoe size 12! When I dived deeper, I realized that it was mothers who buy socks and they were equally attached emotionally to their newborn child as they were to their husbands and hence didn’t differentiate the price of baby socks vs. men’s socks. Continue reading

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How silly Entrepreneurs like me interpret STRATEGY..

Measure, measure, measure everything. I say even how often you use the restroom. And then analyze, analyze, analyze ( ps – maybe u will realize that a latte makes u go 3 minutes sooner than an Americano). Continue reading

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Why have all become Farmers (Farmville) and Hit Men (Mafia Wars)?

In the past few weeks, if you haven’t received requests in your in-box to help your friends on their farms on Farmville or help do a few con jobs in Mafia Wars, then you’ve probably moved residence from planet earth. … Continue reading

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