To be a good and competent employee – learn to close a deal. There is a lot to ‘closing a deal’ but a lot depends on multiple things  which are NOT common sense. 1. Don’t try to sell hard: It is never that your customer is impressed by the urgency in your voice. This just [...]

Ancient chinese strategist , Sun Tzu, explained three approaches to planning and its consequences: 1. Meticulous planning: Before engaging, you have already won the war. 2. Careless planning: Before engaging in battle, you may have already lost the war. 3. No planning: Your defeat is certain. In other words, planning is key to success. Gather [...]

Simple man – Powerful Thoughts “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within” “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” ” Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.” Mahatama Gandhi

My first book is almost complete. Here is a video of ‘yours truly’ giving a presentation introducing the book to the ‘Asian Professional women in technology’ (APWT). This is video series that I have uploaded in 4 parts on Youtube. For this post, here is the first part….Enjoy!

Last night, I was at an event with VCs and entrepreneurs where the classic battle began. Entrepreneurs wanted to create cool stuff and help consumer to democratizing content. Their argument was that if people want to express themselves – digital content is a wonderful way to do so. Content is King. Technology is only a [...]

Women just because you like shopping it is easy to guess that you are marketers dream audience. And this is true to some extent. But it is so obsolete that I am truly bored about all this hype about the spending potential of women. Here is new approach to what marketers might want to consider: [...]

“How well you know the world around you is directly proportional to how well you know yourself“. Everything in the universe in connected. Look at the current situation. Banks can’t lend to other banks. The small business cannot borrow money. Employees are getting pay cuts. And all these transactions are connected. Because everything flows from [...]

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill “Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a [...]

There is so much entropy in our environment and it is so easy during these times to get distracted and lose sight of the goal. Especially in these uncertain times, it is hard for us to keep our minds at peace. There are many people who have lost jobs, people who are not able to [...]

What a novel idea? If you like handbags, jewelery and sunglasses, you know it is hard to budget for them. And then for every occasion, you need to find the right accessories to go with your dress.. But no more. YOU can now feel like a celebrity and have access to accessories that you might [...]