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By Rajesh Setty on Mon 12 May 2008, 6:22 PM - Leave Comment
I couldn’t stop laughing after watching this video. It is to the point and hilarious. Have fun!
Note: For other 34 posts in the same series, please visit my Squidoo Lens on the same topic. Here is the link:
Squidoo Lens: Smile Please
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By Rajesh Setty on Mon 12 May 2008, 4:22 PM - 2 Comments
“If Only We Knew What We Know” is one of the best books on Knowledge Management that I have read. I am re-visiting that book because the concepts there fits nicely with what we are offering with Rawsugar.
One of the chapters talks about the research findings of Gabriel Szulanski (from Wharton) on what are the barriers to knowledge transfer. Here are four reasons:
1. Ignorance: Those who have the “knowledge” don’t realize that others may find it useful. At the same time, those who could benefit from that “knowledge” have not idea someone in the company has it.
2. No absorptive capacity: Even when employees were not ignorant of the knowledge or best practice, they lacked the money, time, and management resources to pursue and study it in enough detail to make it useful.
3. The lack of pre-existing relationships: People absorb knowledge and practice from other people they know, respect, and – often – like. If two managers have no personal bond, no tie or link which pre-establishes trust, they’re less likely to incorporate each other’s experiences into their own work.
4. Lack of motivation: People may not perceive a clear business reason for pursuing the transfer of knowledge and best practices.
Now
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Regular programming continues…
Posted under Business Models.
By Rajesh Setty on Mon 12 May 2008, 10:16 AM - 1 Comment
Last week I was at the EO San Francisco event. Ken Blanchard was the keynote speaker. In his engaging speech, Ken talked about one topic that resonated with many in the crowd. It is the concept of “ducks” and “eagles”.
Ken said it’s easy to notice ducks. They are always quacking. Examples
“The computer says that quack quack”
“It’s in the rule book quack quack”
“I don’t know quack quack”
“quack quack quack quack…”
We had a good laugh and remembered our own experiences with ducks in the past.
Actually, we didn’t have to go back to our past.
Next day Paul and I were in Los Angeles to meet with our potential partners and customers for Rawsugar and we got to see ducks in action. Paul had booked a rental car with Avis but unfortunately had forgotten to get his Avis Membership Card. We wanted to get down at the Preferred Member counter but the shuttle car driver wouldn’t stop the bus. When Paul requested him to stop, his response was
“I don’t work for you. I work for Avis. I am told to follow the rules”
Really, fresh from Ken’s talk, I heard it as:
“I don’t work for you quack quack. I work for Avis quack quack. I am told to follow the rules quack quack”
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Paul and I ignored it and moved on to our meeting. The same evening we returned the car and for the next fifteen minutes there was no sign of a shuttle car to take us back to the terminals. One person was getting anxious (probably because she was getting late for her flight) and asked one of the Avis employees about the shuttle car. The response, as you can guess
“I don’t know”
and I could hear
“I don’t know quack quack”
I had read about the positioning genius of Avis “We try harder” and now it all makes sense to me. With shuttle car drivers and employees like this, they HAVE to try harder 
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By Rajesh Setty on Sun 11 May 2008, 9:08 PM - 6 Comments
Always insightful Dan Pink (no his name is not Dan Think) makes us think again by asking us to come up with a six-word memoir.
I took a shot at my six-word memoir. Here it is:
Improvising accidental discoveries and loving it!
What is yours?
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By Rajesh Setty on Thu 08 May 2008, 8:41 PM - 1 Comment
I don’t use twitter but if you do are planning to do so, you will enjoy WebGuild’s Beginner’s Guide to Twitter.
Here is the link:
WebGuild: Beginner’s Guide to Twitter
Also, in the comments section (over there) you will end a few more links for twitter fans.
Enjoy!
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By Rajesh Setty on Wed 07 May 2008, 10:48 PM - Leave Comment
We would all be geniuses if we were just graded by the brilliant ideas we come up with. It’s just that we don’t know how to execute on all these brilliant ideas.
The Entrepreneur
It was the third time in four years. His idea was already implemented even before he could start working on it. Someone was stealing his ideas. A question from a long-time friend nailed it – “Do you know how many OTHER people had the same idea and didn’t execute?”
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1. A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words. Not 49 or 51 but exactly 50.
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By Rajesh Setty on Wed 07 May 2008, 7:59 AM - 11 Comments
Simple and profound. How are you preparing today for the “wins” that you badly want in your life?
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win”
- Bobby Knight
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By Rajesh Setty on Mon 05 May 2008, 10:25 PM - 1 Comment
What you see is typically a very small part when compared to what you don’t see.
Let me take an example of a Kannada song – Jothe Jotheyali (means Together)
(Since most of you may not understand the language, please only look at the first minute of the song in both the clips below)
Here is the clip from the movie
The above is what you see in the foreground.
Now, let us turn to the background. I will take just the “music” part of the movie. Here is the same song in a studio with the complete music gang in the background
As I said earlier, this is only the music part. You can add the camera crew, costume designers, director, assistant directors, make-up artists and so on..
Life is the same way. There is only so much visible in the foreground. So much more is in the background. Unless you have the maturity to “see the background” without actually seeing it, you may have missed a large part of what is in front of you.
What you don’t see is equally or more important than what you see sometimes.
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By Rajesh Setty on Sun 04 May 2008, 10:39 PM - 4 Comments
If only everyone understood the lesson from this gem, there would be more caring and love on this earth.
”Life is a long lesson in humility”
- James. M. Barrie
Have a great week ahead!
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By Rajesh Setty on Sun 04 May 2008, 8:19 PM - 2 Comments
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