Rory Sutherland is one of the interesting people I discovered in 2025. I guess he might be the only person this year. I have posted some of his videos on this blog before. His insights are amazing. His style is very casual, engaging and ffiendly. And most importantly he is British! I love his accent... Continue Reading →
Latest Podcast of Kunal Shah
Kunal Shah is a controversial personality. I can say so based on my personal experience. Once I criticized him on Twitter and then he sent me DMs on Twitter and started arguing with me and psycho-analyzing me. I realized at that time that he is deeply insecure and vulnerable inside. Or he considers others as... Continue Reading →
Rory Sutherland on How Human Behavior Defies Logic & Data | The Power of Outthinking the Machine
I had shared Rory Sutherland's talk/interview before on this blog. I really liked him for his insights; and the British accent was a cherry on the cake! Here is one more recent interview of his which is worth watching. Unfortunately the video quality is poor. But sound is good. Do check out! Rory Sutherland on... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on Meraki
My organisation's HR head launched 2 years back an organisation wide HR transformation initiative with a lot of suspense and hype. There were posters and teasers released 2 weeks before the launch. Information was revealed in parts, and the name was not revealed. Then during the annual offsite at a resort the HR head announced... Continue Reading →
Stop Decorating The Fish and Illusion of Progress
"A problem is worth solving only if it blocks us from achieving our goal" – from "Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter" by Kristen Cox Kristen Cox lost her vision when she was 11 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqSMp8jc3CE&t=21s Seven Solutions that give us the illusion of progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma212_LUeL4
Choice Overload aka Problem of Plenty
Source: My friend's Linkedin post Choice Overload is an interesting phenomenon that's been known and researched for decades. Here's an interesting encounter I had with it in a completely different scenario The term was first coined by entrepreneur Alvin Toffler in the 1970s, though Princeton academician George Miller had already alluded to the idea as... Continue Reading →
Trust Is A Core Value…
I liked this tree diagram! Source: The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
Campaign in Poetry. Govern in Prose
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." - Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of New York Modifying this quote suitably to apply to the Corporate world: Marketing/Sales/Business Development/Advertising pitch to their clients in "poetry". However, Product Development, Project Management, Service Delivery, Fulfillment, Operations etc. departments have to finally deliver in "prose". Poetry can do... Continue Reading →
Thinking out of the box
An old man who sells watermelons had his pricelist read: 1 for $3, and 3 for $10 A young man stopped by and bought 3 watermelons one by one paying $3 for each As the young man was walking away, he turned around and said: "Hey Oldman, do you realize that I just bought 3... Continue Reading →
44th Chess Olympiad and Clever Marketing
44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
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