Simplicity and the Hedgehog! what a subject to blog about. As I am going through the best performing CEO’s in the decade by HBR, I kept wondering about the single utmost important thing these CEO’s mastered, which put their names there!. What’s the difference between HBR 100 most performing CEO’s and CEO’s in the rest of the world,...

As I am refereshing the news feeds in my favorites RSS Reader in iPhone: iNews, I came a cross a BusinessWeek article by Arik Hesseldahl which he called: Apple’s iDecade. It’s amazingly to see the progress of Apple from a totality of Irrelevance in late 90′s to a world class giant in 2009; the year it maximized on its iPod and iPhone sales. Arik...

Very interesting recap of the most evolving business and management Ideas!. HBR brought into spotlight what struggled businessmen and leaders for the last ten years. Though nothing new about shareholders value, IT value or Behavioral Economics, however, Open Source or greenery businesses or IT investments are new evolutionary landmarks for the last decade. A...

The three horizons of growth from McKinsey is a must-keep framework of practice in organizations in today’s economical turmoil. Though people would argue that it’s a common sense, nonetheless, McKinsey asked for structured focus and disciplined investments allocation to current and future investments vehicles. McKinsey 3-Horizons are summarized as...

During the journey of reading one of the best ever published business books; bestseller of its type; Good To Great by Jim Collins [and subsequently How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins also], I had received Harvard Business Review report on the “The 100 Best-Performing CEO’s in the World“. Well, not so much amazing! isn’t it! Actually it does...

“George Orwell wrote: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” Insincerity is also the enemy of branding. Too often organizations bring in branding experts to come up with a new image rather than facing important flaws or dealing with underlying problems in what already exists. Brands that capture the essence of a product or service are...