Sales, Marketing or Business Development?
Sunday, 30 June 2024
For someone who has spent his entire career in Sales, Marketing and Business Development I often struggle when in casual conversations people swing between these three terms with their own definitions to understand what I do or to explain what they do. The situation is more critical with people who are from different backgrounds and
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Scaling Dilemma…Growth amidst Tradition and Change
Sunday, 23 June 2024
In today’s world, where technology has made market entry much easier and scalable we see multiple products and services entering in different categories. Most of them come with their own unique value proposition which ensures that they stand out from the existing list of service providers. Sometimes these new value propositions create new customer segments
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Bill Grant Study on Long term Success-Learning Conversations & Deep connections.
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Bill Grant was a successful chain store owner and had made a fortune through his 25 cent stores across the US where he mainly specialized in selling kitchen supplies and household wares. In 1937 he approached Harvard University to help identify ways in which he could identify the best store managers and employees for his
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Yes is nothing without a How?
Saturday, 01 June 2024
A few weeks back I accidentally started watching a movie called Captain Phillips in one of the English movie channels. The movie is based on a real story of a freight ship which is boarded by about four determined young pirates and how the crew led by their captain manage to get things back on
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Mood and Energy to decipher your Emotional State – how does your Brain connect?
Sunday, 12 May 2024
I had written earlier about what happens when you are travelling particularly by train in India. Since the seats are facing each other, your eyes will invariably connect with the passengers sitting opposite to you. 99.9% of the times the person sitting opposite to you will not be known to you. But if you smile
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OKRs…The secret sauce to Google and Intel’s market dominance …
Sunday, 28 April 2024
We are again at that part of the year where we work out our goals for the year. These are called by different names in different geographies and different organizations. But the basic purpose of all these is to ensure that individuals and teams are aligned to the overall goals of the organization. Organizations, particularly
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The different mindsets which affect our everyday actions.
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
If we think back into our day-to-day interactions and various actions associated with it, we can identify different patterns that we generally follow. These patterns which we could call as our mindsets could alter or change even during a conversation or any other action that we are into. It could also alter based on a
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Mentoring Relationships – Much more than knowledge transfer
Sunday, 17 March 2024
In operational and customer-facing roles particularly and in others there are hundreds of day-to-day decisions that people must make to ensure that the overall goals are met. While most of these decisions will be based on the overall goals or SOPs laid out by the organisations there will always be several unique learnings which will
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Mindset Shift: Product Sales vs Service Sales
Sunday, 10 March 2024
Until the time I joined an organization that was a service provider, my career had mainly been in in companies selling products. Product companies sell tangible goods, which customers can see, touch, and feel. This allows for demonstrations and physical product trials. Service companies sell intangible offerings, such as expertise, solutions, or experiences, making it
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Big Data – The Real Benefits
Sunday, 25 February 2024
With the way technology has taken over everything that we do, so also is everything being captured at some data source continuously. Whatever we do on the smartphone or on our laptops are captured, the cars we drive are tech enabled and capture a lot of information. We walk out into the streets or go
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