IndianMaze

This article is all about what we know! Insight is to know it fast enough.... This is an article by Dr Moorthy Prof. at IIM Bangalore "Have breakfast "or" be breakfast"! Who sells the largest number of cameras in India? Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones. Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note. Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours). Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscri...

I think I am a fairly straight jacketed person. Two experiences that make my ears go red but had to be polite..... A distant cousin of mine was given an opportunity to do a summer job in a sister concern. He completed without even calling me up (not expecting thanks but just a statement that summer job is over). Silence for a year and then all of a sudden call last week to say that he would seek my help in getting an assignment in X industry and in Y place....... Another call from a person I have not met/spoken to for the last 15 years. Unknown number and the first question is if I have recognised the voice? Obviously not! Help for getting a job to a brilliant son of her's with 9 years workex and his current organisation is hell bent on retaining him!!!! Why does he need a change? Why he needs my help when he is brilliant? Such is the social network in India.

Saw Indian Awards at NDTV. The moment to remember "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist"

Over the long weekend, one wandered to watch a few things on Youtube. Must say was a great experience with what can one do. I ended up listening to longing but not listened to music, watch my childhood icons, delve into war history of India, cross border exchanges of freindly and not friendly kinds and last but not the least an interview of Dean Dipak Jain of Kellogg school fame. I am a great fan of Dipak for a multiplicity of reasons. Apart from the usual great mind, great achievement (first non American Dean and all for 10 years), mastery on the subject etc what makes him even greater is his firm feet on the ground. I can go on as I have had the pleasure of meeting and interacting with him on a few occassions but the key purpose is to take on from what he said in an interview with Chicago Business School. Before people trust you, you must trust them. Once you trust them they cannot got haywire. If you are not able to trust then somewhere you are insecure. Micromanagement is one such ...