What’s the secret of a truly successful organization?. Its a cliche – Its all about hiring great people. I have a simple rule. If you hire a great team member, you dont have to manage them. We tried to solve the challenge of “how to hire a great candidate” while we were building a product company. We quickly learned a lot of lessons on why, what and how of “recruiting A-class players”. Everyday in Ameri100 we are working hard to …
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Recently I read this book by @JamesCarville,@PaulBegala. Even though I may not agree the authors political angle, they have done a great job of identifying what are the key factors that will make a political campaign or business a success. See the attached pdf BUCK UP, SUCK UP summary …
All techies could visualize a scenario like this one below. Hillary was approached by Obama to be the secretary of state. She accepts and comes back to her office. Her “IT Team” walks in and asks “Madam – Would you like 2 blackberrys one your personal and one state department”. She thinks for just a second and says “I want just one – its so easy to carry one blackberry”. IT team goes back. Sets up a server in the …
https://next.ft.com/content/c8f8176c-5285-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef It’s easy for anyone to criticize someone for failures. I think Marissa Mayer @marissamayer was right on so many things that happened at Yahoo. But in the brutal and ruthless tech world, you need to get everything right. Not 90%, not 95% …its 100% correct all times. Timing is everything. Watch this Ted Talk below… Lets take a look a few years back. As late as 2008, BlackBerry was the king of smart phones and Nokia was ruling the …
Google’s Leading Futurist Predicts Humans Will Start Living Forever by 2029 http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/google-s-leading-futurist-predicts-humans-will-start-living-forever-2029 Why would anyone wants to live forever? Ray Kurzweil, thinks many people would want to live. May be the science will reach such peak. But should anyone live forever? Isn’t the beauty of nature is life and death in perpetual cycles? The process of renewal…if that stops, whats the fun? I had always thought, everything is irrelevant and so is everyone in the long march of time. Noting should …
EY announces Finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2016 in New Jersey PR Newswire ISELIN, N.J., April 26, 2016 ISELIN, N.J., April 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — EY today announced the finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 in New Jersey. The awards program, which is celebrating its 30th year, recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Award winners will be …
Here is the list of top 7 California tech companies (excluding defence/bio tech and unlisted companies like Uber etc as well as Tesla’s ) Collectively they hold $500Billion in cash!! Yes its right Billions (500,000,000,000) Apple (AAPL): $226 Billion 2. Google (GOOG): $85 Billion 3. Cisco (CSCO): $75 Billion 4. Oracle (ORCL): $57 billion 5. Facebook (FB) : $22 Billion 6. Qualcomm (QCOM): 20 Billion 7. HP (HPQ): 15 Billion Just these companies added together make it to the top 20 list of …
Did Steve wanted the whole society to be addicted to seeing the handset 24X7? http://www.medicaldaily.com/cell-phones-make-sleepy-screen-addicted-socially-awkward-students-their-grades-dont-stand-300562 http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2016/04/13/Eight-in-10-teens-nervous-when-separated-from-cellphone People see their iPhones more than 270 times per day!! Will this addiction ever reduce? Only time will tell. Cheers, Giri Devanur …
2 months back on Jan 20th , I wrote that Markets will recover My logic was 3 things will happen. China issues will be solved by their market regulator. They brought in a new administrator. Problem postponed:-) Oil prices – I had written “Its a supply side problem. It will get resolved, and should reach around $35-$40 by the end of the year”. Oil is back to $40. Fed & interest rates – Fed did NOT increase the interest rate. So, …
For the last few months I am developing a framework, which I call ‘APPS’, for corporate executives. Every job and every role, in any company, comes with 4 simple measures. Here are the 4 fundamental questions every professional must ask themselves: Am I Accountable for my actions, my project, my company, my team and, above all, myself? (alternatively, at the company level, is the responsibility of a P&L unit really Accountable?) Is the work/project/initiative I am working on, giving Predictable results, which can be measured, and …
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