While the connection between product sales or revenue and corporate performance is obvious and better understood in the world of business, the connection between brands and company performance is not so clear. This is because it is not a direct one. A recent post on LinkedIn and a comment to the post – to which… Continue reading Exploring the Connection Between Brands and Corporate Performance
As the United States of America votes in this most historic and significant of elections in recent history, perhaps we will get to see once again just how divided and polarised the country is. Because it is once again about two competing visions for America, as have the previous two US presidential elections been. Because… Continue reading US and Global Economy on the Brink
As I shared on LinkedIn and Twitter, sorry X, sometime ago, I am busy reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace these days, that my aged father gifted me in Goa for my birthday this year. I am on the second volume of the three-volume set, and since I don’t have a book to write about… Continue reading Cancel Culture of the High Low-Brow Kind
We’re into the last quarter of 2024, the year of anticipated slowdown in the global economy. While we’re still awaiting the September quarter GDP growth figures for major economies around the world, it might be safe to say that the worst has been averted. That there isn’t a recession waiting around the corner. A few… Continue reading Reading the Slo-Mo Global Economy
When I last wrote about the Israel-Hamas War, it was about ordinary Gazans being hounded out of Gaza. That was five months ago. In a mere 5 months, how much the war in the Middle-East has escalated and spread into a wider regional conflict is unbelievable! It is now a year since the Israel-Hamas conflict… Continue reading Free-for-all Wars with No End in Sight
In India, our festive season got off to a start last month with Ganesh Chaturthi and Onam, and there’s plenty more to follow. We always hear of companies talking about their plans for the festive season and how they intend to boost sales of their products through festive discounts. Even otherwise, we always hear businesses,… Continue reading The Festive Season Economy: Bargains, Bling and BOGOF
I finished reading two more books in my aged father’s home library in Goa, this time on religion and spirituality. Actually, I read these before the two Gandhi books that I wrote about last month, but decided to write about them later. Needless to add, both these books on religion strike me as complete mischief… Continue reading Mischief In the Name of Religion and Spirituality
It is a couple of years since the world said goodbye to the Covid-19 pandemic and made an attempt to get back to business and revive economic growth. Admittedly, from all the reporting on business and economic news, we are still in a tentative soft-landing phase, and monetary policy is still in a wait and… Continue reading Pivoting To the New Economy
Having concluded the marathon general elections in India just a few months ago which threw up a split verdict, one expected that the nation would quickly get down to business. To matters such as unemployment and inflation that need immediate attention as well as policies that will help revive private investment. Instead, we find ourselves… Continue reading The Circus-like National Discourse in India
When you consider that the Indian advertising and marketing industry is exploring a new system of consumer classification based on ownership of consumer durables according to Rama Bijapurkar who has written about it in her new book, Lilliput Land, which I have reviewed on my blog, it makes sense to look at the state of… Continue reading How Consumer Durables Can Avoid Commoditisation
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