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Come September when the calendar year re-tells that the months are passing away faster and autumn leaves will make the nature once again vibrant and beautiful. Its also time to relook at those resolutions made during the begining of the year. A tradition quiet fashionable in current times,  where a person resolves  to change undesired trait or behavior  to accomplish personal goals or improve their life. SMART WORK = SMART MANAGERS USING SMART TOOLS to increase ROI. And Smart managers also in an ideal world are good Team-Players. The Team that works towards a single goal, achieves it faster, better, quicker. In the Information-age, Smart is when one does not spend time chasing information. If you ’ ve used Post-Its then you know the Kanban board too. Humans are visual creatures. It is easier for us to process information with a visual aid than without. For this reason, a Kanban board is the perfect tool to help teams instan...

Condense, simplify and speak as briefly as possible. Have the courage to speak in grade-school language. Carmine Gallo talks on the benefits of brevity in communication.  Reason, in short attention span very few things could get read and understood because time is money.  Now the giant corporates while speaking in public follow a separate measure and in practice its different, as monsoon meltdowns were well pronounced this July.   The UK PM’s resignation and the no deal of Musk and twitter, had the social media at buzz. Sharper focus and more hunger are the key words in current situations. As Sundar Pichai remarked Scarcity breeds clarity in his Google meet before announcing the job cuts.  Well indeed everyone in these dispiriting times are looking forward to not worsening climate change, war in Europe, record inflation and deadly political polarization and job cuts. But to better economic times, where companies streamline and consolidate initiatives which are...

Readings and observations leads to an understanding which enables to form insights. Super Bowl is a game in which a team of large Americans in green beat up equally huge men in silver. Beyond sporting it's a biggest cash night for advertising usually in American TV. And an opportunity for new product launches.  This year the streaming audience measure reads 2.02 millions. Is this the final send off for TV or the Digital media will continue to play along with TV? How one views it, is always a choice for the audience. With apps on a mobile screen or enjoying the game on a bigger screen with friends and associates. Which allows  space for media bookings and choice for clients as per their budgets.

An year short of a century, Jallian wala bagh massacre is a writing on the wall. The Date: 13th April 1919. The event: Gandhi's first civil disobedience campaign in North India. Which culminated in the holocaust of Jallianwala bagh at Amritsar. The action: A detachment of Gurkhas & Baluchs arrived in two armoured cars under the command of Genral Dyer. They fired a total 1,605 rounds into a densely packed crowd of men, women and children assembled for a political meeting. Official estimates placed the number of killed at 379 & the number of wounded around 1,200. It was later learnt that Dyer's troops, according to his own account fired the rounds until the ammunition was exhausted. Emotionally Jallianwala Bagh marks a more durable watershed in the relationship between Britain and India than any of Gandhi's non-cooperation campaigns. The bubble of imperialism was pricked. By the way imperialism is, when it cannot rule by a system of s...