Leadership – begins with self leadership

I took an introductory session on Leadership for the new Magneteers on Friday. The session was superb. I myself was amazed at the results we produced and the impact it made on the team. I have learnt a lot of leadership from Landmark and Robin Sharma, so I based my session on the learnings from […]

Reliance’s new logo – thumbs down

That’s the new brand identity of Reliance Infocomm / Reliance Communications. I saw it first on a big billboard near my house. The first impression I had was: “uhh.. why are they using that emboss effect? That’s so 1999’ish.” And I wanted to rant about it for a while, but got the time only today! […]

BarCampMumbai – Mahesh Murthy’s talk

Mahesh Murthy is talking about online advertising, marketing and mathematics right now. Pretty interesting concepts. The idea of buying ad words for phrases that are not so common, but still relevant, is great. The money search engines make, the money an advertiser would end up paying if he choses wrong ad words, and the methods […]

Apollo 13 – Leadership lessons

We had a screening of Apollo 13 yesterday. This was the first movie in the Leadership workshop, and everyone enjoyed it. I was thrilled to see the various types and perspectives of leadership in the movie. Right from the flight director – Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell (the commander) and everybody else. The different moods of […]