Author: Ankush

Celebrations in the Order – First Anniversary

It’s 1st March 2013 today. This blog was started on 28th Feb 2012. It has been a complete year now since I greeted the blogging world with Hello World. I am thoroughly excited about it. The irony of my first post being on the last day of February is not lost on me. For a

MBA Almost Done. What lies ahead?

When I logged in today and saw the hit counter had crossed 2200 hits, I was content. In past few weeks, I have managed to get an average of 7 to 8 views each day. Though it was on back of my mind, but now that I gave it a thought, I realize it does take time […]

Valentine Day – A Day to celebrate Romantic Love

Valentine’s Day went by a few days back. Enough has been said about it being not in our culture to celebrate it in India; it’s a western culture day and blah blah. But what one can surely say is that everyone can relate to it in some way or the other. For the people in […]

Is the World Fair?

It’s a big No. World isn’t fair enough. Whatever one tries to do, world cannot be fair. It’s by inherent design. Newton’s third law that ‘Every action has equal and opposite reaction’ leads us to believe that what we sow we reap. Now this phrase even literally

Rules make things efficient not effective

Whenever any process is repeated over time, each transaction and each problem is solved similarly using the same set of assumptions and logic. Over time, they become rules which govern the solution dispensing methodology.  But once in a while, a case or a transaction comes which defy the previous cases that have been handled by […]

Window Of Opportunity

Why is Steve Jobs so revered? What did he do that none other could? Did he have any extraordinary skills, any intergalactic, out of the world powers? May be, may be not. He’s dead to pitch in his veto vote anyway. So what I can put forth is a theory.

What it takes to become an effective market researcher?

Today is the last day of my two month long summer internship programme I underwent at an industrial market research firm based in Pune as part of my two year Post graduation programme in management (in short, for my MBA). I learnt a lot here and have made some observations. I had tried to compile them here […]

The Calcutta Chromosome – Book Review

Book Title: The Calcutta Chromosome Author: Amitav Ghosh Approx Leisure Read Time: 280 – 320 min Review: Okay, I finished this book about two weeks ago and as I write this I am STILL not sure what do I rate it. This book has to be among the unusual novels I have read. The book […]

Fish Tales – Book Review

Book Title: Fish Tales Author: Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, Harry Paul & Phillip Strand Approx Read Time: 140 – 160 min Review: Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to […]