Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, Quotes, TV, tagged MTV, Splitsvilla, Zorban Irani on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Have been kinda watching this on and off (and with MTV repeating it every evening 9 PM, its kinda hard to miss, when you are looking for music). After Guys taking it a little too far last week with Zorban Irani (that girl has s**t loads of attitude and I like her), the show had [...]
Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, tagged Central African Republic, Congo, Mugabe, Zimbabwe on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
If Only Mugabe Were White - Editorial - NYTimes.com
A really nice article on why at times being the color you are affects how people decide to deal with you! I am not really commenting on what should be done with Mugabe. It will have to be something that the biggies need to decide. You need [...]
Posted in Gyan, Life, tagged Afghanistan, Khyber Pass, Pakistan, Peshawar, USA on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Taliban Imperil Pakistani City, a Major Hub - NYTimes.com
It was only time before something like this happened. US has used Pakistan as a base for its fights for more than 2 decades now. It has, over time turned a blind eye to various failures by successive governments to put into place or destroy existing essential [...]
Posted in Gyan on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
For something I have been thing should I be writing this blog? If yes, what should I write and why should I write about the same?
After a lot of thinking the answer to the first question is yes I should be for a simple reason that I like writing. Now what should I write about? [...]
Posted in Gyan, Management, Quotes, tagged 7e7, A380, Airbus, Boeing, Carbon Fibre, Dreamliner, Jumbo on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Today the large commercial passenger carrier market is mainly Boeing and Airbus. And for the last couple of years both of them have been interested in the making sure one is one up on the other rather than making there planes work… latest being the another 4 month delay for the dreamliner… touted as a [...]
Posted in Gyan, Human Behavior, tagged BCCI, Cricket, ICL, IPL, Money, Power on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With all victories comes a feeling of immense power and invincibility. We forget that for where we were yesterday, someone is there now… and tomorrow someone else will be here… BCCI has exceptional amounts of money and immense power with it. BCCI believes that with all the money that is there in the sport, we [...]
Posted in Gyan, Management, tagged Co-opetition, Google, Yahoo, Yodel on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
During my MBA, we had read about co-optetion, basically meaning cooperating to compete. This is out of choice and may just be a good way for all stakeholders to win. A lot of companies do this.
But, looking at a today’s internet market, most of the companies do it and they cannot do without it as [...]
Posted in F1, Gyan, Management, tagged Extremistan, Gyan, The Black Swan on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Just finished reading ‘Black Swans’ NNT and saw the first application right away.
Looking at the first half of the season’07, nobody would have thought that a rookie - Hamilton at McLaren, would at the the doorstep of creating history and may just become the first rookie champion in the 57 yr old F1 history. This [...]
Posted in Gyan, tagged Books, Extremistan, NNT, The Black Swan on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
My first post on another one of my passsions: Books. I am crazy about reading; Have read innummerable books on various topics. As of now I am reading ‘The Black Swan‘ - A book on extremely low probability - high impact events. NNT has a excellent understanding of extreme events and their impact. Will try [...]
Posted in Gyan, Management, tagged Gyan, Problem Solving, Quotes on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Finished a small conversation with Sebin on one of the issues he had. Just asked a few questions regarding what the issue was. And the moment he had the answers to those, he knew how to solve the same. So, as my boss says,
More often than not, Defining the problem correctly almost instantly leads to [...]
