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Understanding a Story – The Vivékin Way

Posted on March 28, 2012 by sreedevi

Almost all the houses in the community I live in have solar water heaters installed on their terraces. For most of these house owners, while the logic behind doing this has more to do with considerable savings on the monthly … Continue reading →

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Frameworks and Hierarchies

Posted on March 13, 2012 by vivekinadmin

The response to my recent op-ed in The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2967567.ece) was overwhelmingly positive. But about 1% of people misread my message. This small percentage of responders thought that my op-ed was against western frameworks and theories, and that I was … Continue reading →

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Communicating effectively in every day scenarios

Posted on December 6, 2011 by sreedevi

What is the power of the spoken or the written word? Churchill said, “We are masters of the unsaid word, but slaves of those we let slip out” and Jean-Paul Sarte claimed “Words are loaded pistols.” All of us have, … Continue reading →

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The danger of being purely strategic….

Posted on September 5, 2011 by vivekinadmin

Or Why We Need Operational Leadership Intelligence From a book my 12-year old daughter was reading: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

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A Pygmalion approach to pricing a service

Posted on December 30, 2010 by vivekingroup

Pricing is always a tricky problem where a service like training or teaching is concerned, because marginal price (i.e. the price to serve one additional customer) is almost zero (as with most informational goods). How much more does it cost … Continue reading →

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What Matters Now: Leadership Intelligences

Posted on November 26, 2010 by vivekingroup

Seth Godin brought out a free e-book titled, What Matters Now (download it here). It’s a fascinating collection from many thought leaders. Each writer elaborates in one page on a theme s/he has chosen. It is a must read.I am … Continue reading →

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Scott Brown&the Massachusetts Election: Leadership Lessons for Obama

Posted on January 21, 2010 by vivekingroup

Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts elections may have put health care reform in jeopardy, but it holds some important leadership lessons for President Obama. Despite Barack Obama being a great communicator, he is demonstrating a tremendous lack of communicative … Continue reading →

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Understand your customer

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Prasad

On a Saturday some weeks ago, I was driving from Chapel Hill to Durham along a commuter-friendly back road. The car in front of me suddenly turned its hazard lights on and stopped. Luckily I was some distance and I … Continue reading →

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Warren Buffet, Goldman Sachs,&Leadership Intelligences

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Prasad

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that as recently as in March, Warren Buffet wrote to his shareholders expressing disdain for Wall Street firms, “You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out–and what we are witnessing … Continue reading →

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Innovation Value Chain

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Prasad

Along the lines of Michael Porter’s value chain in strategy analysis, it is possible to conceptualize an innovation value chain. Often companies get stuck in a rut by confusing innovation with ideation and not moving beyond idea generation.Recently, researchers at … Continue reading →

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