A lot of people aspire to become entrepreneurs. They plan for the following: Choosing the field they would like to be in Conceive the business idea Draw up a business model Partners (Whom to build the business with) Competition (if any) Leadership Team Promotion, Marketing and Sales/Revenue generation Investments Risk Management Operations (Day to Day…

Great start for Monday, No obstacles for Tuesday, No stress for Wednesday, No worry for Thursday, Smile for Friday, Party for Saturday, Great fun for Sunday, Have a beautiful week. This is the wish I received recently from my friend Pratheep after getting introduced to Start2Lead. This is wishing an ideal week! The question is…

We say ‘Journey is the reward’. My reward during a recent travel was a wonderful question asked to me by SriLekha. She wanted to know which among the 2 was important Doing Different Things or Doing Things Differently. It was an interesting question and majority of the people think ‘doing things differently’ is important for…

One common refrain we hear in the modern times from people is that they are very busy. Everyone has one thing in common, that is 24 hours a day. How each individual uses the same number of hours is what matters. Hard work is not an option to achieve something in life, but smart work…

“Efficiency” and “Effectiveness” are the two common words/terms which are used in daily work life. If you observe they are interchangeable in a speech and it still make sense. But they are not exactly the same. I once heard a speech and the orator explained the difference between these two terms in a very simple…

A saying ‘learn to walk before running’ is very well known and it is very obvious that ‘learn to stand firm before walking’. That’s the maturity process to RUN and it’s important to ‘learn running fast before flying’. Let me apply my startup experience with the above analogy for running a business. When we analyze…

‘The Depth’ as the third dimension adds more life into the flat world with two dimensions. Let’s go little deep and see how this concept is applicable to entrepreneurship. Ambition is the third dimension which adds depth to the other dimensions The Intelligence and The Emotion. Some of the qualities of these dimensions can be…

Last week, I had a wonderful opportunity to visit Puttaparthy after a long time. There, I heard a speech by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, which was very enlightening. After the speech, all assembled there got an apple. That reminds me of a famous proverb “An apple a day keeps a doctor away”. It is said…

This is my first post on a new series called ‘The Inseparable Twins’ These posts would focus on the subjects which are like 2 different sides of one single coin. The first inseparable twins are ‘Idea and Execution’. Thoughts come from a beautiful mind and your IDEA is a part of creativity. A good IDEA…