Something that happened at home earlier today reminded me of my very first full-time job, which I had ended up literally running away from barely two months after I’d started. I like to call this the “slavedriver sandwich”. The basic problem is this – you need to get someone you normally have no influence over…
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata principles
An army of monkeys can’t win you a complex war like the Mahabharata. For that you need a clever charioteer. A business development meeting didn’t go well. The potential client indicated his preference for a different kind of organisation to solve his problem. I was about to say “why would you go for an army of…
Should you have an analytics team?
In an earlier post, I had talked about the importance of business people knowing numbers and numbers people knowing business, and had put in a small advertisement for my consulting services by mentioning that I know both business and numbers and work at their cusp. In this post, I take that further and analyze if it…