• Business Model , Company Profile , Entrepreneurship , Managing Growth , Marketing , Sales ,
• Tags: downturn, engineering, precise engineering, prototypes, sales, scaled down models
• 27 Feb

Budget cuts are allover and the economy is not turned up as yet. Spend on promotions has not been encouraging for last few quarters now. Space in Tradefare and industrial exhibitions are going vacant despite heavy discounts. The ad spaces on the way to Hyderabad and Bangalore Airport are faceless for several months. Somehow organizations

• 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 Thinking , change management , Entrepreneurship , Focused Execution , Focusing mechanism , IT Industry , Managing Growth , Marketing , Organization Transformation , People Management , Sales , Software Industry , Startup Profile , Startups ,
• Tags: built to last, business fundamentals, business growth, business rules, capacity building, dilemma, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurship, first generation entrepreneur, neu-entrepreneurs, operations, product development, promoters, rationale of business, sales, sales process, startups, techie, technology entrepreneurs, transition, valley of death
• 12 Sep

The resistance of entrepreneurs to participate in sales process is, often, appalling. We find a large number of entrepreneurs keeping itself over occupied in  technical and operational activities, even when sales becomes the key constraint and business inches towards disaster. A majority of successful startups, is primarily due to the salesmanship of its entrepreneurs. External