• book review , Business Thinking , change management , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Organization Transformation , People Management , Problem Solving , Sales ,
• Tags: buy in, HBR Press, iim bangalore, John P. Kotter, kotter, Lorne A Whitefield
• 28 Jul

During past couple of months the library at IIM Bangalore got a large set of books from HBR Press. Last week when I walked in, I picked up ‘Buy*in’ by John P. Kotter and Lorne A Whitefield. Kotter is an authority on change management and has made significant contribution in ‘speeding up’ change management in

• Breakthrough Performance , Business Model , Business Thinking , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Managing Growth , Operations , Organization Transformation , Problem Solving ,
• Tags: business model canvas, Business Model Generation, business model innovation, dilemma, leverage point, LongTail, operations, rationale of business, thinking process
• 15 May

Costly mistakes are not necessarily made in complex terrain. We find it repeatedly that organizations make simple decision making errors that have catastrophic impact on their business. This post connects to a caselet that gives a glimpse of such a simplistic error, that is not uncommon. It then, tends to expose a larger issue of

• Breakthrough Performance , Business Model , Business Thinking , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Investment , Startups ,
• Tags: dilemma, entrepreneurship, Funding, leverage point, prime responsibility, prime rules, rationale of business, thinking process
• 27 Mar

The entrepreneurial ecosystem is quite abuzz with activities. When one talks about business, one talks about achieving an objective and for which, one of the necessary conditions is that the business must make money now as well as in the future. The amount of money that is available today in the system is such that