The death of Convoy has been one of the biggest stories in both tech and freight media over the past week. While the freight market has suffered a number of major shutdowns, few were as sudden as Convoy’s. After all, Yellow was a much bigger company, but it died a very slow death, and because it was a […]
Leading with low prices is anything but smart. Any businesses trying to lower their prices or advertise their low prices to build differentiation for themselves. The first starter consumer has when they see low prices is that you are likely also providing lower quality. Leading with price is generally a bad idea. Spend your marketing […]
The debate on remote work continues. There are merits to being at the office and working from home. There are two forms of work – I firmly believe in the the goodness of people. We are all generally responsible. We all have personal lives and WORK is a part of it. worklife balance???. Honestly, I […]
The debate about Remote work stems from the different perspectives that employers and employees have. Remote, hybrid and in-office each have pros and cons In-office is great for synchronous time. Collaboration, meetings and social engagement all happen well in the office. However, working out of the office isn’t great for asynchronous deep work. A lot […]
Answer the 3 questions — real quick. Each participant needs to succintly speak to the following questions: (keep it to no more than 90seconds. Succinct, To the point, no wandering off)(1) What did you do yesterday? (2) What will you do today? (3) What blockers stand in your way? End — Close out the daily […]
We all want to pay the lowest price for the best service, irrespective of what we are buying. My team at Gozo Cabs has established a massive network of taxi operators and is at this point the largest taxi services provider for travel to and from anywhere in India. In the past few years building […]
MANY OF YOUR ARE MANAGING PEOPLE – focus on a team’s efficiency, not just their work-rate. (Its not enough to know what we are getting done. Are we doing it efficiently?) – don’t begin a task if you can’t finish it or add value to it (know the end goal first) – don’t be passive […]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-01/ending-the-tyranny-of-the-open-plan-office Google approach seems interesting. Mixing the opportunity to collaborate with also being able to do deep work Have an open office when you want. Book a secure thinking room for thinking/deep work. Book a meeting room or collaboration room for team work. Cal Newports Deep work is interesting book but somewhat boring. Too much […]
Every organization wants to be a high performance organization. But not everyone gets there. When shaping your organization, use this grid to evaluate your greatest asset – your people. Its just one of the ways to shape & fine-tune your organizations potential High performance people who exhibit a high trust quotient can be pillars to […]
I started out with the thought of getting more out of my time. Ever since this pandemic has started, we are all working from home. While there are a lot of pros in working from home, it can tend to get to you sometimes. Work time has little boundaries and it tends to spread into […]
All startups are young upstarts. But not all young upstarts are startups. So think through a few points before you call your new business a startup. In all my time working with startups in various capacities including as a founder, an advisor, a consultant or a mentor to founders I start with asking the following […]
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