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Protected: Summer of 2024: Changes Everywhere
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Us, Them, The World, Comparatively Speaking
It is in the spirit of this age and our times that we resort to making comparisons all the time. About anything and everything. In the 60 and more long years of my life, I have never encountered so much of this, as in the past couple of decades. It’s something about the 21st century… Continue reading Us, Them, The World, Comparatively Speaking
What EU and UK Elections Could Mean for Their Economies
With large parts of the world going to elections this year, it’s worth looking at some of the political shifts that could signal changes in economic policy as well. India has just concluded a mammoth 7-phase election and I have written about its implications for the Indian economy in my previous blog post. Parliamentary elections… Continue reading What EU and UK Elections Could Mean for Their Economies
Reviving Hundred-Year-Old Brands and Making Them Relevant
Even in today’s fast-changing, tech driven world, we have several brands that are over a hundred years old in our midst. Often, we may not even realise they are that old. Brands age just like we do. Some manage to stay up-to-date and relevant to today’s consumers, while many others fade away or disappear from… Continue reading Reviving Hundred-Year-Old Brands and Making Them Relevant
Protected: Reading In a Fragmented World
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Can We Change the Direction of The Coming Wave?
Just finished reading an absorbing book on AI by one of its leading practitioners, and I was hoping it wouldn’t be one of those rapturous, ra-ra kind of books on the subject. Thankfully, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, founder of DeepMind which Google acquired, and Inflection AI, isn’t one of those kinds of books;… Continue reading Can We Change the Direction of The Coming Wave?
What It Means to Be a Network of Professionals
In recent years, social media has come under a lot of flak for being platforms to spread hate and discord, bigotry and indeed, even misinformation. From Russian meddling in US elections and in Brexit through Facebook, to our own elections reaching a feverish pitch on social media and allegations of a child-lifting racket spreading like… Continue reading What It Means to Be a Network of Professionals
How Popular Car Brands Can Maintain Their Edge
Since I have written about luxury car brands – Jaguar, Land Rover, JLR corporate brand and Porsche - on my blog before, I thought I’d turn my attention to mass-market popular car brands this time. Mass market and premium cars ought to constitute the most crowded of car segments in any country, I would reckon.… Continue reading How Popular Car Brands Can Maintain Their Edge
Protected: Understanding a World Divided
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The Global Economy According to The IMF and The World Bank
In my previous blog post I wrote about how changes in politics and geopolitics the world over can impact the global economy this year and the next few years at least. Now that the Annual Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank have concluded, I thought I’d write about how they see the world… Continue reading The Global Economy According to The IMF and The World Bank
Peripatetic Perch 