Soar in what ever you do, just like Mordecai

20 April 2012

A baby Blue Jay named Mordecai was sitting in his home… a small branch, lower down a big tree. Every now and then he looks up and see’s bigger birds sitting on bigger, stronger branches. Not only that, these big birds were doing some crazy flying manoeuvres and catching some seriously chunky European Crane Flies […]

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How to communicate ‘value’ to our prospects

13 March 2012

Why do we struggle to communicate value? We are ‘DO’ers. Hence we communicate what we do. The conversation in our head is all about ‘what we do’ and why our prospects ‘cant really see it’ or ‘wont get it’. Have you considered this? Have you considered leaving the conversation in your head and joining the […]

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How simply changing the order of two words can impact your motivation

27 February 2012

Whether we are aware of it or not, we are always talking to ourselves. This ‘self-talk’ has been heavily discussed in personal development circles. We are all encouraged do positive affirmations’ (like “I can do” X …). Here is an interesting twist… Ibrahim Senay and Dolores Albarracin, at the University of Illinois conducted an interesting […]

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How Google ‘Quality Rates’ web pages

11 January 2012

I am in possession of a Google Internal document meant only for their ‘human review’ team. It contains 125 pages of instructions and guidelines on how to ‘quality rate’ websites chosen for human review. Why is this of interest? Few months back Google made some radical changes to how they rank web pages. If you […]

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How we imagine objects

14 December 2011

A researcher named Palmer asked people around the world to draw a cup of coffee and this is what he got. What do you notice? Barring one or two,most of these cups are drawn from a perspective. The person who drew it, draws it as if he/she is looking down on it at an angle […]

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How to use pictures of people

23 November 2011

Most of us use images of people on websites and printed materials without really understanding how the subtle nuances of these images influences people. We use clichés like “a picture is worth 1000 words” and phrases like: ‘image needs to blend in’ ‘adding to the corporate image’ ‘being consistent’ and so on.. But how is […]

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The art of making big profits as a small player!

11 November 2011

Let’s start with the worlds biggest retailer. Walmart. They have 8970 branches turning over $422 billion last year. What do they sell? Everything an household could ever want. Electronics, clothing, food, toys, leisure and so on… Apple stores worldwide make 13 times more money per square foot than Walmart! Yes 13 times more! You have […]

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Did you understand the question and the answer in this video?

19 September 2011

I neither understood the question nor the answer! Come to think of it I didn’t even understand the language 🙂 Can you make sense of this video?         + Ravi Peal-Shankar

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Hire for skill fire for attitude?

18 September 2011

In the recent past few of my clients had to let go of some employees. The main reason: Their Attitude My clients spent considerable about of time and money in the selection process. However most of the assessment process was based on testing the candidates skills and experience and hardly any on their attitude. So […]

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Who accomplishes more? A person with passion or a person with commitment?

13 September 2011

Who accomplishes more? A person with passion or a person with commitment? Passion does not produce commitment! Want proof? Simply look at the divorce rates! In any endeavour look at starters who don’t finish! Passion can help Passion can help when you start something. A business, project or an adventure.But passion is like a taking […]

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