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You can be a woman, be ambitious about your career and be unapologetic about it! Who do so many girls top their classes at school and college and yet so few remain in the workforce a decade later. What results in women dropping out of the workforce before they reach management positions? A McKinsey report …
4 categories of Moats that drive the biggest companies A business moat is a key competitive advantage that sets a company apart from its competitors. It is what keeps has helped the biggest companies build and defend their markets From Amazon and Tesla to Starbucks and Coinbase, here are the common types of moats. #1 …
“When the Black Death plague entered England in 1348, the Scots up north laughed at their good fortune. With the English crippled by disease, now was a perfect time for Scotland to stage an attack on its neighbor. The Scots huddled together thousands of troops in preparation for battle. Which, of course, is the worst …
Appa oft said there are two types of folks – one, who let life happen to them, and the other who try to get the most out of it. Whom do you want to be? Great discussion with Brij Sethi on what it takes to live and not just exist. I love the passion he …
[Podcast] – How to get into the driving seat and stay there Read More »
How do you describe your brand? We did an interesting 10 min branding exercise recently at a Leadership workshop. “If you were a known commercial brand, Which one would you be? What 3 adjectives would you use to describe the brand? Who would be the primary customer type? What would be its differential value?” Each of …
Have you seen MIT Tech Reviews’ 10 breakthrough technologies of 2021? #1Messenger RNA vaccines #2GPT-3 large natural language computer models #3Lithium metal batteries that cuts the high price barriers for EVs #4Remote everything #5Multiskilled AI Twenty years ago, MIT Technology Review picked 10 emerging areas of innovation that we promised would “change the world.” This list marks 20 years …
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“You are so ‘lucky’ to have such a helpful spouse. You should teach him how to change napkins too”, piped in a relative, 2 weeks after I had my kid. “I don’t think the childbirth included a manual that taught me how to change one and missed my husband’, I retorted. Much to my mom’s …
Book # Title 1/52 The Psychology of Money 2/52 The Midnight Library 3/52 The Promised Land – Barack Obama 4/52 The Kabuliwalla – Rabindranath Tagore 5/52 The Henna Artist 6/52 The Last Queen 7/52 Tiny Habits 8/52 The Push 9/52 Greenlights 10/52 The man who solved the market 11/52 Think again, Adam Grant 12/52 Alchemy …
Ranjani Mani 2021 Read List – 52 Books I read this year! Read More »
Don’t set goals for 2022! Set Systems instead The man behind the Dilbert series, Scott Adams puts his success down to an alternative approach to goal setting. Setting systems vs goals “The Problem with goals is that they give you something to work toward, but accomplishments are fleeting. What’s more, if the goal is particularly …
“You cannot right click and save a community’ That is a brilliant analogy I was just thinking about the astounding pace at which tech around us has grown – wait, not in a decade – but just over the last 4-5 years. Nothing short of magic. ************************************ Ranjani Mani #NFT #reviewswithranjani #technologiesofthefuture