This is an analysis of how to strategically think about adopting a new social technology – if you value your freedom that is. The DATA: I asked a lot of my friends about what isthe time they think that occurs between interruptions, if one has access to any of the social technologies listed below – and here are the results: (for all practical purposes “Boss” is considered as a technology) I assumed (as is us...

I came up with a formula for my reading speed long time back in school, and thought I would share it here. Conventionally reading speed is defined in words per minute but I don't see how that is of any consequence. How can you know before hand the number of words in a tome and come up with how much time you're going to finish it in? This formula does just that. Its like this: Time taken to read in minutes = [(No....

Growing political mayhem and economic mismanagement are turning India into a High Cost Economy. Read that as falling competitiveness, job losses and industrial emigration. On September 12th, 2005, Business week headline read : "Why the world must watch out for India and China". Alas, this very statement created in India a superego that is now hard to get rid of.  We are proud people. A little bit of praise thrown ...

Introduction: I recently did a survey  to emulate this speech by Rebecca Saxe. For actual survey and results please refer to end of article. The survey was given out to approx. 250 people (MBS Class of 2011, MBS Class of 2010 & my Facebook friends. Total people count = 580; Total approx. UNIQUE people = 250). The respondents represented a lot of variety -  nationalities, age groups, professions and a healthy ...

This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...

I often watch videos off the TED site, but some videos related to India, off late, set me thinking. Shashi Tharoor and the Power of Soft Power (referred to as ST from now on) Devdutt Pattanaik on East v/s West (referred to as DP from now on) Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Save the World (referred to as MS from now on) I couldn't help but notice and laugh (yes, laugh) at the commonalities that these speakers......

I came across this article on http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_happiness_genie/ Suppose a genie appears and gives you two choices. The first option is that he will give you $10 million dollars, but everyone else you know will get $20 million apiece. Choice two: You get $5 million, but no one else gets anything. As a bonus, the genie offers to erase your memory of having made the choice, so guilt will never...

After getting TONS of experience now for one year of researching GMAT and MBA stuff, I present prospective with MBAs some results of my research. In this post I shall be discussing only MBA degrees offered by colleges accepting GMAT and/or TOEFL scores for the same. Ok. Let's assume that you have already taken a decision to get an MBA. The reasons might be varied. You hate your job - want to switch an industry....

Analogy is often drawn between one, two , three and higher dimensional beings, and their behaviour, in one two or three dimensions , not respectively. I will try to express my views on one such analogy which everyone is so grossly mistaken about. The dimensions in increasing order are : zero, one, two, three, four….etc. The examples of figures in these dimensions are point, line, square, cube, tesseract… etc res...

The online landscape: Yahoo! wants to spread some cheer to Internet users around the world. A leading online portal, Yahoo! draws people to its network of Web sites with a mix of news, entertainment, and shopping, as well the revitalized Bing search engine (powered by Microsoft). The company also offers registered users personalized Web pages, e-mail, and message boards. Yahoo! publishes content in some 30...