The High Cost of Poor Communication: Why Most Leaders Fail.
Let’s be direct. Leadership is not about your title. It’s about your impact. Yet, businesses are hemorrhaging money—over $1.2 trillion annually in the U.S. alone, according to one study—because of a single, chronically misunderstood issue: ineffective communication....
How a Startup Scaled Without Paid Ads (And What You Can Learn From It)
If you’re building a startup, chances are you’ve heard some version of this line: “You need to raise money to scale.” It’s become gospel. Funding = growth. Ads = reach. That’s the formula, right? Wrong. One startup I worked with turned that thinking on its head. They...
Why Most Digital Transformations Fail (And What To Do Instead)
“Digital transformation” might just be the most overused—and misunderstood—phrase in today’s business vocabulary. It evokes visions of cloud-native tools, AI-infused operations, and sleek dashboards that turn every manager into Tony Stark. But scratch beneath the...
The Hidden Cost of Over-Automation
Why automating everything isn’t always the best strategy In an era where every SaaS product, agency, and guru preaches the gospel of “automate to scale,” it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that more automation automatically equals more growth. After all, who...
Scaling Smart: Why Growth Isn’t About Complexity
Growth is the goal for every business. But in the race to scale, too many companies make one critical mistake: they equate growth with complexity—more tools, more people, more processes. The reality? Growth isn’t about doing more; it’s about doing better. Before...
Six Reasons You Should NOT Deal With Amazon India
Have been having the worst service from @amazonIN for the past six months. Today was the straw that broke the camels back. Am deleting the account and I feel that people need to know the kind of shit this large as hell company put paltry mortals like us. Lack of any...
10 Security Mistakes You Are Making Online
The online world opens up many doors to great things, but it also lets in some less pleasant elements. From malware to spam, to scammers, to phishing and identity thieves, they are all to be avoided online. However, they are always lurking, and you may not always...
Valdaar’s Fist and Vance Pumphrey
I was recently given the opportunity to read and provide honest feedback for any book I get through a network of book curaters called the Booktasters (on twitter as @booktasters). When I discovered the service, I was quite intrigued at the prospect of finding some...
Five Bits of Advice You Need To Hear Before Buying Smart Home Products
Where do you start? There are so many products to choose from. But, before you get carried away by the hundreds of online retailers. Here are 5 things you need to hear before you buy any smart home products. Just To Recap Before we dive into the advice....
Technology for Fitness
Fitness - the one thing that tech-dependent world really needs to focus on, given the sedentary state that people are slowly being pushed towards. And, what better way to promote a healthy lifestyle to technophiles than using technology instead. With sensors to...
Review: Parrot Bebop Drone
It is truly a lot of fun seeing different drones flying around on the beach (just the odd one or two at a time). I always wanted to fly one of those toys around just to see what they are like. I was given an opportunity to use a Parrot Bebop with Sky Controller for a...
Intel-ligent Computers – on a stick!
If you have seen Jeff Dunham - then you know this reference. If not - I recommend this search "Jeff Dunham on a stick" Anyway, this is a review of a device I have been using for some time now. Intel recently made public, a little device called the Compute Stick....
On the radio: SBS Australia asks my view on Apple posting huge profits last quarter
A Hindi radio show in Australia and an online podcast host, Pallavi Jain, from SBS Australia called me the other day and asked me to comment on the reasons why Apple have been able to post US$18 bn in the last quarter and I shared my opinion on this. The recording is...
Combined Review: Alienware 17 and Asus G751
Monsters. No, really. The worth-every-penny-you-spend-on-them gaming laptops these days are absolute monsters. Monsters you can tame to do your bidding. In the past two months, I had the opportunity to play with two such machines that came bearing a legacy of gaming...
Review: Oppo Find 7
I was always wondering what this brand, "Oppo", would entail in terms of their devices and despite seeing all the various videos seen on Youtube, and all the photos of leaks and stuff, I was still curious to know what this company would bring to the market. When they...
Public Relations
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Social Media Marketing
Social Media- the BUZZ word that is part of EVERY Marketing mandate today. Don't fool yourself, you have it on your list too, somewhere. I can help you: STRATEGISE - Identify what sites will work and how you can create content that will work on these sites. In...
Through the Line Marketing
Through the Line Marketing Strategy is necessary for every publicity campaign, and I have access to various solutions and concepts that can be easily adapted to any industry vertical - whether product, service or event.