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Crisis What Crisis? A review of the last one…
This year begins not unlike the spring of 1998 – a looming financial crisis across all Asian markets in 97 had mushroomed into a full blown meltdown by the fall of that year and by spring of 98 any of...
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Big Dreams, Big Plans, Small Money, No Commitment – How Not To Market in Asia...
Watching someone’s dreams go up in smoke is never easy, especially in business. It makes you wonder why they were dreaming such things in the first place. This happens often, especially in developing...
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Econsultancy’s CEO on Innovation & Social Media
We spent some time with the Econsultancy folks in London during our recent visit, which included a series of roundtable discussions. Here’s a piece on their blog which touches on innovation through...
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Hagel & Seely Brown on U.S. Economic Trends, Talent and Passion
Tuesday night at the San Francisco’s Wharton School on Howard, Kevin Werbach moderated a discussion with John Hagel III and John Seely Brown about The Big Shift: measuring the forces of change. In the...
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Sports, celebrities, politics & recession top Google trends list
The local Google branch, this side of Africa, have certainly been very communicative. And this time they’re giving us insight into the country’s Zeitgeist. As part of its year-end Zeitgeist trends...
View ArticleYou Have To Be Joking… Steve Case Ridicules AOL’s $850m Bebo Buy
I couldn’t believe this: Steve Case, the former head of AOL Tweeted: “AOL buying Bebo for $850 million and then selling 2 years later for $10 million doesn’t seem like a winning strategy.” Is this a...
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If You Don’t Need It… Don’t Buy It
Artist Unknown. Made in 1942. If you don’t need it…. don’t buy it. With all the struggles and tribulations people went through during the Great Depression and now with the current recession, it is good...
View ArticleThe Fear Of The War
It is to fail to share experiences of the war between different generations August 15th was the 65th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War Ⅱ. Most of the television channels broadcast war...
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On the streets: Ireland’s people voice their discontent
Countries all round the world have suffered at the hands of the recession. However, one of the worst hit has been Ireland, who last week accepted an $89 billion ‘bail out’ from the IMF in order to...
View ArticleCharlie Munger’s Parody of the Great Recession
Charlie Munger, my hero, handed out the following parody at ” A Morning with Charlie” in Pasadena, California on July 1, 2011 (formerly, this annual gathering with Charlie was known as Wesco Financial...
View ArticleIn Times of Recession, Rani Martin’s Story
In my last post I wrote about one restaurant owner in rural Tamil Nadu who said that most people in India have been unaffected by the economic downturn. His point was that rural people — most of...
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In Times of Recession “Indians Will Always Survive”
[Note: This post was originally written earlier this month.] KARAIKUDI, Tamil Nadu – Karaikudi is the small capital of Tamil Nadu’s Chettinad region, a place renowned for its spicy cooking. Chandra...
View ArticleYou Have To Be Joking… Steve Case Ridicules AOL’s $850m Bebo Buy
I couldn’t believe this: Steve Case, the former head of AOL Tweeted: “AOL buying Bebo for $850 million and then selling 2 years later for $10 million doesn’t seem like a winning strategy.” Is this...
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If You Don’t Need It… Don’t Buy It
Artist Unknown. Made in 1942. If you don’t need it…. don’t buy it. With all the struggles and tribulations people went through during the Great Depression and now with the current recession, it is...
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On the streets: Ireland’s people voice their discontent
Countries all round the world have suffered at the hands of the recession. However, one of the worst hit has been Ireland, who last week accepted an $89 billion ‘bail out’ from the IMF in ..... The...
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