If you are on any social media, in particular Twitter, you would have a lot of messages about the new craze/fad called Wordle. It's a word game created by a software engineer for his partner. Interestingly, the name of the person is John Wardle - so Wordle is (also) a wordplay on his name. I... Continue Reading →
When we think of strategic responses/options for any situation/scenario/problem, we often think of multiple ways to respond. However, many a times we forget that "Do Nothing" is also a strategic option. In fact it is Option #1 which is always available. And yet we do not give enough importance, thought to that option. We do... Continue Reading →
As part of my MBA I studied Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) in Cost and Management Accounting course. I liked the concept a lot! In simple words the ZBB idea is as follows: Our budgeting exercise is usually incremental in nature. We take this year's budget as a baseline and think about incremental budget required for... Continue Reading →
Swiggy, one of 40+ Unicorns India produced in 2021, is a food delivery start-up which is losing Crores of rupees, while adding tonnes of calories to Indians who order food at home and stuff themselves. The trend has picked up a lot since COVID hit us in 2020. By virtue of their business Swiggy (or... Continue Reading →
Don't miss this latest interview of Pratap Bhanu Mehta - India's foremost scholar and political commentator - conducted by Karan Thapar. Every word/sentence said by Pratap Bhanu Mehta is measured and layered. The outlook he paints is bleak and saddening; and hence alarming! Wake up, India! https://youtu.be/PcWYmM_7rw8
Of late my screen time has reduced considerably - not just laptop, but even mobile phone usage is much lower than what it used to be 3 months back. It's not by coincidence; I've been actively working towards it. One one specific day in August 2021 my Screen Time as per iPhone statistics was 7... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite comedians is Vir Das (in addition to Punit Pania, whom I watched live recently, and Varun Grover and a couple others). I like all of them because their type of humour is not just some funny nonsense story; it's a weapon to fight against the ugly things in our society; it's... Continue Reading →
Today is 8th October. Today marks the 5 years of Demonetisation Disaster. The biggest scam was unleashed upon whole India by the Prime Monster (or Moron?) at 8 PM on 8th November 2016. India is still recovering from that setback. It was not just a disaster or a bad decision implemented poorly. It was a... Continue Reading →
Recently I attended a leadership meeting where I had a brief discussion with Business Unit Head about the Strategy of our company not to diversify and focus on only one specific Industry vertical i.e. Banking and Financial Services (BFS). This was about Data and Analytics capabilities. I made a point with an analogy which was... Continue Reading →
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