Around nine out of ten startups fail. Why? A startup is prone to failure because to be called a Start-up, the prerequisites are innovation (testing new tech, products, or markets) and potential for exponential growth. But what if despite a successful offering and exponential growth, it fails? This can be better explained through a live case study of Byju’s in the form of an equation. Why Equation? In this era of short attention spans, no one has time to read long stories. So here’s an attempt to cut Byju’s long story short and express it in the form of an …
There’s an old saying that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. When we talk about the entire planetary ecosystem, human stupidity is the most important constraint in the way of sustainable progress. Stupidity is a pervasive human condition because we are fundamentally stupid creatures. And unlike intelligence, stupidity knows no bounds. So here I present an animated discussion about the tyranny of the bounded rationality and the unbounded stupidity. This witty conversation between Santa Singh and Banta Singh is about the past, the present and the future of mankind.
The art of designing business strategy is also about discovering the vast grey ocean which lies hidden somewhere between the red and the blue ocean. There actually exist myriad ways of doing business beyond the ordinary; however, it’s quite difficult to fathom their existence without using your sixth sense. To implement it in life and business, one needs to have a grey ocean mindset. Here’s the lowdown on the grey ocean strategy.
Height means measurement of something from base to top. It also means extreme or ultimate of something. For example, the height of heights is Hillary on Tenzing and Tenzing on Mount Everest. Corporations are scaling new business heights with each passing day. The point is not how do they climb and reach those dizzying heights, but rather how can we reliably measure it. That’s a silly question. Isn’t it? No, it’s not.
Our small actions can have far-reaching, unintended and unforeseen consequences. Here’s a business case study to prove the butterfly effect in the economic and business world. Let’s see how a court judgement impact reverberated far beyond the capitalist world with unknown repercussions.
