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 …
N.R. Narayana Murthy, the legendary cofounder and retired chairman of Indian tech giant Infosys, has recently proposed the idea of 70-hour workweek to boost India’s productivity. Here’s the follow-up message by Catbert, the Evil HR Director to clarify the doubts.
Everyone loves to blame others when things go wrong. We also enjoy judging others. So let’s play the game of judging and blaming and find the guilty behind the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, and the biggest since the 2008 financial crisis.
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.
