Announcing a shift

I am in the process of shifting this blog to my website, http://jeev.in. Plan to finish this job of shifting by the first week of March, 2010. Jeev.in will be a single point where all the social media, consulting work, and blog posts will converge. Hope it will be a better experience for readers and more convenient too. The site will get renovated. Meanwhile, You can always contact me here.

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The ten new management gurus to know

Here is a set of ten new gurus for management lessons of the time: With Web 2.0, social networking, enterpreneurship on newer heights - we have some new lessons. These lessons tell us if a charismatic CEO is enough to make a company successful or about new global regulatory frameworks.

The names are: Fogg | Lencioni | Khurana | Casey | Sull | Podolny | Roubini | Benyus | Ariely | Canner

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A few good books to read

 

A Business and its Beliefs Thomas J. Watson		Art of War Sun Tzu		Art of the Long View Arie de Guis
Built to Last Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras		Beyond Entrepreneurship James Collins		Catalyst Code Evans & Schmalensee
Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore		Competitive Strategy Michael E. Porter		Economics of Strategy Besanko et al
Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner		Good to Great Jim Collins		Innovation & Entrepreneurship Peter F. Drucker
In Spite of the Gods; The Strange Rise of Modern India Edward Luce		Inside the Tornado Geoffrey A. Moore		Intelligent Enterprise James Brian Quinn
Made in Japan Akio Morita and Sony Corporation		Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove		Select Essays on India Economy C.Rangarajan
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators Vijay Govindrajan & Trimble		The Google Story David Vise and Mark Malseed		The Road Ahead Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson
The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen		The New Argonauts; Regional Advantage in a Global Economy AnnaLee Saxenian		The World is Flat Thomas L. Friedman
The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki		Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell		Wealth at the bottom of the pyramid CK Prahlad
Winning Jack Welch and Suzy Welch

 

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Garfield Gyan

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8th Semester Entrepreneurs

The story of dotCORD IT Solutions. Full story here.

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Being Yourself

From a previous blog of mine
Going in the right path, when all around yourself are free to do whatever the hell they want to do, is a bit difficult but not impossible. We know we have to keep pace with this world but it does not mean that we are supposed to change the values that we have. If we are convinced of our values, they should be given the first preference while deciding on the factor of changing oneself to suit the world.

Changing without losing your own distinct identity is the key to a successful change. Keeping pace with the world, while folowing our own ideals is an art. One of the first things in this direction is to be positively assertive. Don't take anyone's opinion or remark too seriously. Secondly, identify, upto a certain extent, what your core values are. Is honesty a part of your character or you are a person who fits the situation? Or are you a totally dishonest person? Is taking risk your nature or you are always one who'd prefer a safer path. Identify who you are and what are your best qualities. Do not compare with others. It may be that you are best at doing house work. But the friend near you who is too popular in your workplace is some one different: think twice before emulating her blindly. Be yourself. And for that you have to know what are your best qualities. One of my friends is best in keeping quiet and that helps her in her life.

Continuous progress is an untold things that we always want. I said progress. Not change.

Let us believe that continous change is mandatory. You cannot stop it. But continous progress is what is under our control.

Progress continously. Follow your own values.

This world is a very funny place. You cannot ever say for sure what the world wants. But it is an easier task to decide what you want. Focus on few things at a time. (You may wish for hundreds of things!)

The following is a quote I had seen long back - repeating it - it is by Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

 All  my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.

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He trains India's poorest students for the IIT

From Rediff.com: Read full article here. His father, a post office clerk in Bihar, couldn't afford private schooling for his children. So, Anand Kumar studied at a Hindi medium government school where, at an early age, he fell in love with mathematics. During graduation, he submitted papers on Numbers Theory that were published in UK's Mathematical Spectrum and The Mathematical Gazette.... (Read full article here.)

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HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume

Link from Sharethis.com: HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume

Social media resumes are important for attracting hiring managers directly to you, without you having to submit your resume, blindly, to them. The problem with submitting your resume online to job postings is that most job postings aren’t (read more...)  Posted using ShareThis

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Process of transformation.

Image Credit: CareerDevelopmentPlan.net

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Ethics and leadership - a personal event to recall

While being a student's leader during graduation, I discovered a racket that conducted free blood donation camps and then illegally sold the units collected. On the one hand, I found them saving lives and on the other hand, a cancerous culture of bribing, fraud and illegal trafficking of medical blood-units was thriving. Ethics was getting murdered, though lives were being saved selectively (by those who had money). I decided to campaign against this racket. At times I got life-threats and even faced the ire of needy patients (who could give anything for a few units of life-saving blood). Taking support from the ADM (Additional District Magistrate), plus the Rourkela chapter of the Red-Cross Society and fellow students, we could counter hordes of unofficial agents who illegally traded blood-units.

The integrity of a professional reflects in his daily work. Although this was just one incident of many that I have faced, the nature of lessons learned are applicable everywhere. Today, I have conducted numerous camps for eye-care, met numerous influential people who trade favor with values and once, I have had to decide between hiring a meritorious candidate vis-a-vis a less apt one but relative of my boss.

In life, we will continue facing similar ethics (or the lack of it!). But when we look at the bigger picture, we always can understand the right direction to go, even if it is seemingly difficult or temporarily unpopular. I believe that if we are determined and courageous to go ahead with the better path, any hurdle (be it government machinery, public misunderstanding or personal loss) can be constructively overcome.

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Supervising the Board

What is the best way to advise the advisory - probably a board that controls another board? See how this system is a new model to discuss and adapted. Indonesian business culture is already one with this arrangement. Indonesia’s two-tier board system works well and could be a model for other countries.

Quoting Tanri Abeng of PT Telekomunikasi:

“The board of commissioners cannot just say, ‘I’m non-executive, so I’m going to play golf.”

What are the pros and cons of a two-board system? Does it handle the issues raised by a single board system? Is it a good idea to ward-off (or nullify a bit) board politics?

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Launching LinkedIn From a Living Room

The founder of Linkedin opens up in an interview here. From 350 personal invites to 4500 within one month, and 50 million users today, this is a story to read! Click here.

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"How do you manage business objectives and social objectives?"

HEC Social Business Conference: Our Decision Today, Our Impact Tomorrow
Keynote speaker: Emmanuel Faber, Co-Chief Operating Officer, DANONE.

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Blinds.com - Periodic table of marketing

Credits: Blinds.com
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The Zero Carbon Car

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A different reason for this recession

Why are we in a recession? An NBER paper by Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor, Ernst Schaumburg.

In quotes:
"Arguing against conventional wisdom about the causes of the recession, the authors say that the inability of existing financial and legal institutions to cope with the huge increase in the world’s labour supply in a very short time period, led to the recession."

This paper is available as PDF (741 K) or via email.

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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of 'SixthSense' technology

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Turning the underprivileged into successful entrepreneurs!

Rediff.com: An effort inspired by the Prince of Wales, by Lakshmi Venktaraman Venkatesan, founding trustee and executive vice president of Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust, is the daughter of former President of India, the late R Venkataraman. The idea behind Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST) is (Read more..)

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Dismay and Delight

Though I was officially briefed about it before embarking on my visit (in June '09), but it did little to alleviate my astonishment during my stay. The way they look at life, reactions and behavior, mannerisms (with specific ways to sit/stand/talk/wait), honesty, discipline and ultra-politeness (at times, artificial), ultra-cleanliness, addiction to work as well as video-games and cell phones, pervasiveness of electronics in daily life, with folks in trains either engrossed in their mobile phone or reading something or just with eyes closed and ears plugged to media players, the variety of food (preparation and eating manners, thanking everyone from the farmer to the fish being eaten), their handling of extreme stress  and their lovely music - it was a series of observations. My stay in the US was not that shocking even though the culture is very different from India. Also, it was not just differences but even similarities in culture that surprised me in the land of Fuji-san. My parents, my spouse, and myself have been brought up in different states in India and I am not new to culture diversity, but in Japan, I was impressed, awed, and fascinated at things - made me think deep about the global evolution of humans and how  values of a society reflect in the norms of the land. I discussed these with my spouse staying in the UK and compared this with my previous experiences with US, Indonesian and Burmese friends. My daily interactions with my Japanese teachers only strengthen my awe for a culture built on philosophies and thoughts of the highest good. And after all, there is so much similarity between the Indian aspect of higher thoughts and the Japanese aspect.
How thin is the line between dismay and delight!?
Life is a beautiful amalgamation of everything nature can provide us and the notion of right/wrong, and culture dismay/delight looks so relative to our thoughts!!

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A 'green' entrepreneur's success story

It has been 25 years of entrepreneurship for Pramod Chaudhari. A successful entrepreneur, he describes his experience as an exciting journey full of ups and downs. Read the complete story here.

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