Recently one of my very close friends was involved in a car accident and he narrowly escaped. His car got hit from behind and it spun 180 degrees and he was facing the wrong way. He had the presence of mind to restart his car and turn his car around to avoid a head-on collision. […]
I had a chance to listen to Prof. CK Prahalad at the CII conference in 2007 and he was sharing his thoughts on how India can grow at double-digit. he was an amazing human being and a management guru. I am sharing key takeaways, which I remind myself in my prayers almost every day: His […]
I have been wondering if any institution has “Failure” as a core VALUE, despite most leaders of the new economy encourage people to fail and learn from that experience. I have struggled why Failure should not be a value, even though in order for us to be successful, we should never worry about Failure. Could […]
During my visit to Mumbai in October, I met with fund managers, most fund managers and some of the Gurus identified the price of oil (and $ /Rupee) as the single biggest risk to the markets. My experience of having seen commodity cycles and having been a trader (many years ago) was that Oil will […]
My first meeting with Ritesh Aggarwal of Oyo was 15 months ago, we have become good friends. I have tried to decipher his reasons for success, here are some takeaways from our interactions. Ritesh has a dream to get to 10% of the unorganized market in the hotel segment. He is very focussed on Growth […]
