Its been a little more than a year now, since I moved from a company where I sold products, to a company where I sell consulting and other services. Its been an interesting learning experience, and the differences between the two industries are quite a challenge for a salesperson. In some ways though, they are [...]
October 30, 2006
Categories: Personal Experiences, Workplace . . Author: apu . Comments: 2 Comments
OR – Should they have a role at all?
I‘ve never felt discriminated at work in any tangible way, because I am a woman. No one has ever denied me a promotion on account of my gender. I don’t think the pay varies in my industry. Even on less obvious things, for e.g. allotment to a [...]
October 14, 2006
Categories: Workplace . . Author: apu . Comments: 12 Comments
Business Line has an interesting piece today, on how Indian lanterns are finding buyers abroad, becoming hot-selling “antiques” or curios. It’s a good example of how value can be measured in terms of what a product or service means to someone, not necessarily something, or anything to with its cost.
Apart from this, what stood out in [...]
October 10, 2006
Categories: Marketing . . Author: apu . Comments: Leave a Comment
With the kind of crunch that there is at middle managerial levels today, in many industries, finding the right person is increasingly becoming a tough task. To do this now, companies are setting up processes in many areas – how to identify the good resumes, how to conduct background checks in industries where experience is [...]
October 7, 2006
Categories: Workplace . . Author: apu . Comments: 11 Comments
For some time now, I have been feeling the need for a place where I can place my non-fiction writing, talk about my professional experiences, about the marketing world to which I belong, how I perceive the Indian workplace. I overcame that laziness today and finally started on this one. The look and template is not completely [...]
October 4, 2006
Categories: Workplace . . Author: apu . Comments: 7 Comments