Some key fundas from an interview with Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix. The next big wave in studio and Netflix profits is not downloading. It’s high-definition DVD. The hardware industry wants it to succeed because they want to sell another 100 million high definition DVD players. The studio wants it to succeed because [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Next Big Wave for Studios ? Downloading or HD Format
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Who is Ricardo Semler ?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2005 | 1 Comment »
For nearly 25 years, Ricardo Semler, CEO of Brazil-based Semco, has let his employees set their own hours, wages, even choose their own IT. The result: increased productivity, long-term loyalty and phenomenal growth. Semler’s a CEO-who- manages-least- manages-best approach. Can his radical approach work for you? One afternoon, while touring a pump factory in Baldwinsville, [...]
Something Cool : Failure and Feeling Lucky
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2005 | 3 Comments »
On the Google site please search for failure and click on ” I am feeling lucky “. Enjoy!
Tip of the Long Tail
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Brij Kishen in front of Gandhi’s Funeral Pyre My good friend Ankush’s granduncle Brij Kishan was secretary to the great Mahatma Gandhi. During family dinner conversations, Ankush’s mother recollected that Life magazine had covered the assasination and funeral of Gandhi. The article had a photograph of her uncle, Brij Kishan next to the burning funeral [...]
Computers impact academic performance
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The use of computers in education has been debated since personal computers arrived. Apple did a wonderful job by dominating the classroom with superb software. In one of the best analysis I have seen to date, Lowell Monke observes students who frequently use computers perform more poorly academically than those who use them rarely or [...]
Microsoft CTO gets it
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Article below talks about Craig Mundie, CTO Microsoft, giving a very factual evaluation of the software engineers, India is producing and the local software eco-system that exists. India’s techie pride is very quantative in nature and not qualitative. The CEOs of companies who produce local software products and internet businesses who service the Indian market [...]
Divinity in Work
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
(via Indian Express) Sudheendra Kulkarni talks about lessons in the divinity in work from a woman stonebreaker. Even in corporates good managers always try to connect the relevance of each individual’s work to the bigger objective of the team or the company. In reference to a lecture on citizenship by Swami Ranganathananda. ‘‘No work is [...]
