THINK TWICE – Harnessing the power of COUNTERINTITUTION by Michael J. Mauboussin is a sharply focussed book. What makes it interesting is the way it shows you the possible reasons : why you must THINK TWICE?. Then follows it with sharply defined MISTAKES you could be making in reaching your decisions inferences. At the end… Read More »
Tweet Follow @S_kotnala It was my second year in Lintas. It was like any other usual day. I was in my small little cabin on the 8th floor of e Mohandev building. The phone rang and that was the beginning of a small interesting episode. RECEPTIOIST AT DELHI OFFICE : Sanjeev call from PREM MEHTA’s office, shall I patch… Read More »
‘ I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find that there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is ‘ : Albert Camus ( 1913-60) At Dainik Bhaskar group. Pradeep Dwivedi picked the book ‘For God’s Sake: An adman… Read More »
Continuing with the brand GILLETTE and WILKINSON SWORD blade, I share with you something that I would not recommend to be copied in the era gone by and the era to come. This is a good revenge story. Simplicity is the key to being effective and efficient. This takes me to a time when RANJAN… Read More »
This is somewhere in the early part of 1996. I had moved from HTA to LINTAS Delhi. I was servicing WILKINSON BLADE account at GILLETTE. SAMIR VERMA was my boss and RANJAN my junior. It is tough to imagine the science, technology and the quality test for a simple Rupee one blade. I was fortune… Read More »
Continuing from the last episode I share another episode involving brand HERO HONDA . It was a life and death situation – hilariously funny in its way. With hindsight I can now appreciate the humour in it. SO, WE START AT THE END I was on phone from PALAM AIRPORT sometime in early part of… Read More »
MISSING TAPE CLIENT: You never sent those tapes – a tape is missing I: We sent all of them- I checked with my team CLIENT : Who would you believe- me- your client or your team? I: MY TEAM CLIENT: You are lying I: Don’t say that CLIENT: NO YOU ARE LYING I: Say sorry-… Read More »
I must have some Masochist tendencies picking books interesting enough but needing deep involved reading. Thank god I am no longer part of the 50 Book Challenge. NUDGE is the FIRST BOOK I have read this year. Book 1 in 55 Days !. FOR YOU READING THIS REVIEW WILL SUFFICE. So this read cover book… Read More »
A POINTED VIEW FROM MY NIECE and definitely different. The new generation raising questions. A Facebook post by BHUMIKA CHANDOLA Having audienced ‘Highway’,what revolves in the mind the most is IMTIAZ ALI; unlike the movies we have grown up on which leave only a hero and a herione or at the most some story if… Read More »
Let me get the basics out. All reviews you may have read do not do justice to the film. No it’s not something extraordinary. It’s just different. And that makes it click with me. This is the sleeper surprise. What would you expect with ALIA BHAT and RANDEEP HOODA- only saving grace was the directors… Read More »
