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Malcom Gladwell on “Why we dont give our best”

One of my favorite sports writers - Bill Simmons of ESPN has op-ed his weekly column this week with Malcom Gladwell of “Blink” and “Tipping Point” fame. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060302 they talk about why some athletes perform Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:16 PM by paddys | 3 Comments

World Economic Forum - Davos

The importance of the World Economic Forum cannot be overstated. Over the years it has become one of the major podiums for CEOs whether it is simply to take a gloabl stage or if it is to lobby international governments for special interests or if it is Read More...

Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 10:40 PM by paddys | 1 Comments

Emerging Markets Prophet

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968089.htm The article talks about C.K Prahalad - the motivator behind the push to the "bottom of the pyramid". this topic has been well publicised so I wont go into the details but here are a couple of Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:36 PM by paddys | 0 Comments

Online advertising - Business model

I am not a financial analyst, I don’t play one on TV and neither did I stay in Holiday inn express last night but I would like to ponder on the valuation of a certain business model. There is so much clamoring for a piece of the advertising pie that I Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:41 PM by paddys | 2 Comments

The science of "Long Tail"

Ever heard of the "Long Tail of the market" ? This phenom is ringing bells recenlty in discussions around the residual value of content aggregation businesses and how content providers like goog derive value etc. I found this useful in thinking about Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:51 AM by paddys | 0 Comments

Top ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

Guy Kawasaki writes about the mistakes Entrepreneurs usually make Here are a couple I thought were funny - “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.” This is not isolated to startups. We see it every day in valuating new business opportunties. A corollary Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:27 AM by paddys | 0 Comments

10 things I think I learnt writing a book

1. Writing is much harder than "thinking" 2. I have a much more acute problem of attention disorder than my friends and my wife give me grief on 3. MS Word can be "very" annoying 4. "Search" technologies are in their infancy 5. It *does* rain a lot in Read More...

Posted Monday, December 26, 2005 12:03 PM by paddys | 0 Comments

Holiday book list

Here is a quick list of books that I am either currently reading or have just read in the last 6 months or so: 1. The Next Global Stage: Kenichi Ohmae 2. The 86% solution 3. Blue Ocean Strategies 4. The World is Flat 5. The Competitive advantage of Nations- Read More...

Posted Monday, December 19, 2005 3:11 PM by paddys | 4 Comments

RSS, VOIP, Speech etc.

I am doing some research on how RSS can be used in non consumer scenarios. For ex, Can RSS be used to create an alarm management platform in a process control system or can it be used to deliver information to financial services clients from content providers. Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:48 PM by paddys | 2 Comments

$100 Laptop from the MIT lab

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html From the Economist - "The idea is as audacious as it noble: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest parts of the world. The first step to making that happen is whittling Read More...

Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 9:19 PM by paddys | 1 Comments

The Math behind Career Potential

I just witnessed someone in my company move from being a Group Manager to a Director to a Senior Director to a General Manager all in less than 3 years. This prompted me to think about what might the secret recipe to corporate success and here is my shot Read More...

Posted Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:05 PM by paddys | 3 Comments

Blue Ocean Strategies

The book I am reading right now is called "Blue Ocean Strategies". It talks about how companies should focus on developing new markets and fundamentally change the game rather than focus its energy on "Red Oceans" which denotes existing market place where Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:42 PM by paddys | 3 Comments

Recruiting and retaining talent

good article on business week on retaining talent. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_41/b3954001.htm They use Schlumberger as the primary example for good practices in encouraging a global workforce. I have worked with SLB for a long time Read More...

Posted Friday, September 30, 2005 11:11 PM by paddys | 3 Comments

The New Silk Route - Software for Emerging Economies

I am working on a book called "the New Silk Route - Software for Emerging Economies". This book is intended to raise the awareness of the market opportunity for software companies in the emerging markets. The book will serve as a catalyst to companies Read More...

Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 3:03 PM by paddys | 1 Comments

Open Soure and Microsoft - Harvard Study

Fascinating study done by Harvard Business School on economics behind the Open source movement and its implications on Microsoft – unlike other partisan reviewers, the authors are accomplished professors who look at the issue from an unusual angle – formal Read More...

Posted Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:59 PM by paddys | 2 Comments