Batting in the Foreign Pitch?

As product management is gaining ground in India, we are witnessing newer challenges than what we had a decade back. Glocal, Global Village, Multi-site sounds awesome isn’t it? Yes, but the product managers will know that it takes a lot more than just sounding awesome. Remotely managing products can in fact be a nightmare, far from being awesome. In this post, let’s look at …

Are you part of a professional community yet?

One of my uncle is a hardcore foodie. Once he overate this tasty snack of South India called “kodubale“. He developed severe gastritis and he had to be taken to a doctor. The doctor knew him and asked him in a very friendly way – “Mr. Rao, when you knew you were overeating, you could have popped an antacid tablet and things would not have been …

Upgrade yourself the ILAS Way

Ever since my school days, I always found myself struggling in exams. Even after spending hours together on studying a topic, I ended up scoring average in my written exams. I had tried various methods to score well, but all in vain. Ever since my EMBA classes started last year, I realised that the course demanded a slightly different way of learning. It required …

Why should you volunteer your skills to a start up?

Last weekend I met two of my friends, who are entrepreneurs and have their own start-ups. Each of them was in corporate jobs for over 10 years and has taken this leap in the last 2-3 years. We had good chat about their life as an entrepreneur, their journey from corporate world to being a founder of a technology start up and challenges that an entrepreneur will face. During these discussions …

Reinvent Film Certification Board

Narendra Modi Govt can really do well without unwanted distractions like the recent Censor Board Curse List controversy. These issues occupy media space for a long time, refuse to die down soon, and are unproductive for all the stakeholders. It is just lose-lose equation for everyone – Government, the Board and most importantly us, the citizens. They get etched in the memory of the people, derail the positive, development …

The Delhi Aftermath

Twitter and Facebook witnessed a troll fest on Feb 10th when the Delhi election results were announced. “Bhakts” had a tough time getting trolled by the “AAPtards”. The “Congis” were conspicuous by their absence in this space. Clichés like “Honesty Wins”, “New Chapter in Indian Politics”, “Common Man Won”  “Modi-Shah decimated” etc had a field day. The BJP supporters valiantly retaliated by saying “Kejriwal would …

The one extra degree

This is the first of a series of my posts on the key take ways from the recently concluded Project Management National Conference 2014 in Hyderabad, India. This is my interpretation of the concepts presented in the conference. Every time in the gym, when I am lifting weights and I find the last 3 or 4 of the 20 repetitions to be the most toughest …

The Trust Axis

When I bought a new car a couple of years back, I was very possessive about it. I did not like even a speck of dirt or a single scratch on it. The time for the first service came and the Service center promptly sent out a driver to pick up the car. Although it was me who requested for a pick up, I …

The PHONE Dilemma

The moment you grab the news paper in the morning, you are welcomed with full paged adverts of exciting offers on the latest and the greatest smartphone.  The deals are so enticing that you would just want to login to you favorite online store and order one immediately. I am no stranger to this situation. I already own a Samsung Galaxy Note from the …