The phrase ‘personal branding’ still makes a lot of people queasy. I had a conversation with a tech. industry veteran yesterday and he said the first thing that comes to his mind when he hears ‘personal branding’ is ‘vanity’! He’s not alone,…

I follow Surendhar on Twitter for his South Indian films related updates. Occasionally, he also started tweeting a lot about Airtel. The first one I noticed was on November 2, 2018. This one: I thought that looked unusual. It sounds like a…

I was invited to moderate a panel for the CII-conducted conference on new-age facility management. The event was titled, ‘New age facility management enabling business outcomes’! Now, I honestly have no clue about the facility management function at all. I have been…

Earlier this week, I stumbled on an ad. in the Deccan Herald, by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. This unassuming one! The ad actually calls out a Samsung branded fridge for failing the energy efficiency test. It seems the fridge was being…

Liam Wildish is my hero! Who Liam Wildish, you ask? Liam is a 21-year-old from Retford, Nottinghamshire. He runs a window cleaning business called . One way he promotes his services to win new business is to go around cleaning road/street signs…

That headline is an exaggeration/creative liberty… to make a point. Read on, for the point 🙂 Tata Sky’s official handle on Twitter makes for an interesting note. At the surface, the handle and its activities seem normal enough. Tons and tons of…