Category Archives: General

Hi-Tech labor (Part III of III)

Published in 2005 The first part of this series can be read here and the second part in series can be read here.  In this third and final part I will focus on leadership. While the government incentives can encourage innovation for the simple reason that it directly leads to profits, leadership is a different… Read More »

Break the tigers free (Part II of III)

Published in 2005 This is the second in the three-part series.  To read the first in series click here.  In this article I will focus on encouraging innovation. On my way from hotel to the airport in Shanghai I pulled out the departure card and started filling in the details. I was able to fill it… Read More »

Our Enemy’s Best Friend

Published in 1999 I have always wondered – why does India not make progress like the rest of the world? Almost all nations in the world started off at the same or similar level after WWII. Given India’s rich history and knowledge we should have leapfrogged the world and should have been one of the leading super-powers… Read More »

E-governance

Published in 2001 Lately it seems that India is waking up to the concept of e-governance. The irony is that our government has yet to understand what governance is and they are already moving forward with automating whatever we have in the name of governance. When President Clinton visited India, he proudly proclaimed that India… Read More »

For your eyes only – The art of Personalization

Published in 1999 The other day when I visited Amazon to order additional books, I was happy to see that I was welcomed by name and the page listed some recommendations based on my previous purchases. So, I thought of browsing the list of recommended books but to my disappointment I already had all of… Read More »

New economy, new rules

Published in 1999 That is what everyone hears these days, mostly from the executive staff of dotcoms, that the ‘old’ rules of business no longer apply. It is being said that the e-commerce and e-business is so different from bricks & mortar business that we cannot measure, be it stock price or other indicators, with… Read More »

theLie Llama

“The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,” said Lao Tzu. It took me almost a decade from the time I had the idea of ‘theLie Llama’ and it took my co-host, Gunjan, and I about six months of deliberations to take the first step. Then it took us about four months… Read More »