#Bitcoin -#Cryptocurrencies -The Digital Gold or Hyped Bubble
Thursday, 08 February 2018
Bitcoins first caught my fancy when some of my friends revealed the huge profit they were making by trading in them. Being a speculator at heart (the heart gets reigned in by the brain mostly) this got me interested. My interest further shot up when I discovered the returns were like 25000 times in three
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Has the #success of #Redmi (#Xiomi) sounded the #death knell for Brick and Mortar #channel
Monday, 01 January 2018
Being a sports fan if I switch on to any sports event whether it’s the IPL or the cricket series or the kabaddi or badminton leagues you find mobilephone manufacturers like Samsung , Oppo , Vivo or LG as one of the key sponsors and their advertisements keep screaming at you during every break..If I decide
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#Bengali #Rasogollas to #Darjeeling #Tea- The #Influence of #Geographical Indication(GI)
Saturday, 09 December 2017
Am very fond of sweets and Rasogollas have always been one of my favourites and hence when I saw this article in the newspapers of Bengali rasogollas being given Geographical Indication(GI) and Orissa disputing the same citing that rasogollas have been offered at Puri Jagannath temple since 12th century Geographical Indication immediately caught my eye So
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#Artificial Intelligence…#Cyborgs to replace #smart #phones
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Was a great fan of the Star Trek series when I was a kid and was so fascinated with all the high tech stuff in the show …like data coming up as required right in front of you…you being transported to some distant place…having those small earphones on your ears through which you talked to
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#Indian #Consumer #Durable Industry – Growing to the 5th largest in the #world
Monday, 25 December 2023
When was the last time you went from shop to shop to check out different brands and models or colour and pricing of a TV or refrigerator that you wanted to buy… Long time ago wasn’t it? The Indian consumer durables industry has been growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 17% for the
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Will #Netflix enjoy the same success in #India as it did in the #US
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Will #Netflix enjoy the same success in #India as it did in the #US Netflix, Inc. (Netflix), the world’s leading provider of subscription video on demand (SVoD), launched its Indian platform on January 6, 2016. Due to its huge population, India represented a lucrative market. Furthermore, the younger generation in India had dynamic consumption patterns
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#Past #Conditioning -How it affects our #Attitude and #Behavior -and hence #Habits
Saturday, 06 February 2021
All of us respond differently to different situations that we encounter on a day to day basis. At times we even respond differently to the same situation depending upon with whom the interaction is happening with. Very often we aren’t even aware about these differences. Is there a particular pattern that we follow or is
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How Small Habits Induce a Tsunami like change in Routine and Productivity-The Alcoa Case Study
Sunday, 31 January 2021
Am sure we have all come across small trivial activities that we do on a daily basis which radically changes our energy level and improves our productivity levels for the day. We would have woken up with a lower back pain, but a few front stretches and bends makes the pain vanish and you are back at your productive best. Or you leave your home with a small headache in the morning, but by the time you reach your office after your morning drive and your normal office calls in between, the pain has suddenly vanished.
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How wrong #habits take root in great institutions .The #NASA #Columbia Mission Case Study
Sunday, 24 January 2021
In the last series of articles on converting New Year resolutions into habits we had seen how habits get formed in individuals. As companies and institutions are also made up of groups of people … are they also susceptible to develop habits there as well? I have taken a series of events that have happened
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#New Year Resolutions into #Habits #3 -The #Habit #Loop
Sunday, 17 January 2021
During the last two articles of this series of converting New Year resolutions into Habits I had discussed System 1 and System 2 parts of the brain and what functions each of these influence. Particularly, how little improvements daily leads to compounded benefits in the long run and some of the problems and bottlenecks that
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