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Startups often struggle to find a healthy balance between becoming and staying relevant, with marketing and sales, and competition and growth. Their efforts and struggle, while not necessarily always logical, is usually understandable. However, one…
Here in India, we citizens as consumers don't quite take customer feedback as seriously yet, as they do in some other countries. In my first job for a short stint at a BPO in Bangalore,…
Once I started noticing contrasting oddities in our human nature and behaviour a few years ago, a bulk of them ended up in the book 'Main Batata Hoon'. The thing is though, once you start…
The beautiful tri-colour waving at Connaught Place, Central Park, Delhi. It’s 75 years since India got Independence! A proud milestone for all of us Indians. Also one to reflect on and carefully choose the…
India - More highways or Better National & Public Transport? This is an email I had sent to our Minister for Road Transport & Highways in January this year. Of course I am still…
Image source: here Dr. Faqir Chand Kohli passed away today at the age of 96. Founder & 1st CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (India's largest software consulting co.), he is considered the 'Father of the…
Is it possible to fall in love with a company? Not the kind where you are loyal to a company or brand or product line and refuse to buy anything else.But truly revere a company…
Ava and Dr. Jimmy Patell, dear friends of mine, were extremely kind to gift me a poem that they wrote about my book on design thinking, Design the Future. The poem itself is more priceless…
Lose Your Illusion Sometime last year, I had an interesting conversation with a friend's girlfriend who is a psychologist. Between drawing inferences from my handwriting to discussing human behaviour in general. She also mentioned the…
A Pad Idea! Once upon a time, there was is a man named Arunachalam Muruganantham from Coimbatore in India, who could not bear to see the discomfort and embarrassment that his wife had to go through,…
Actions With and Without a Face Even today, you can see people of some races cringe or gasp at the sight of the swastika, the symbol of Hitler's party. Even though the swastika has much older…
A Session on Innovation, Design Thinking & The Future of Work Earlier this week, I was invited to conduct a session around 'Innovation, Design Thinking and the Future of Work' at the Indian School of…
Design Thinking - Shelters for the Homeless [3.5 minute read] Here's the next post, towards sharing stories and incidents around design thinking in daily lives, towards a better collective understanding. My earlier post was about…
Democracy has rested on four pillars. The legislature, executive, the judiciary, and arguably the most important, the press. All the pillars need improvement, some far more than others. The world press, for instance, has really…
India has seen an almost meteoric rise in the number of SUVs and compact-SUVs in the last few years. Perhaps the size fits in well with our gradually growing economy, disposable incomes, and egos. Among…
