http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay Just another Blogs.adventnet.com weblog Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:24:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tom Peters on Love Thine "Enemy"! It's Good Business! Quote: Oddly enough, I've run into two situations in the last 24 hours where someone wanted to restrict the activities of a competitor relative to seminars I was giving or products I was developing. It's a position that I ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2006/12/12/love-thine-quotenemyquot-its-good-business/ ...the market often belongs to the first person who brings you the right story on the right day. get the story here>> AJ http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2006/03/07/is-there-a-first-mover-advantage/ Theodore Levitt had once said "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!" A powerful statement that underlines the importance of paying attention to the 'utility value' of a product. Everyone in the business of running a business need to have this quote stuck on ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2006/01/30/who-calls-the-shots/ The 2005 Global 500 companies list : http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/fulllist/0,24394,1,00.html You know what :?: Most of the companies in this list are brick-and-mortar companies :idea: http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2005/12/11/2005-global-500/ ...you must be suffering from CONTINUOUS PARTIAL ATTENTION . I came across this term a few weekends back, when i was skimming the colorful (the reason i read it :wink:) Economic Times - Corporate Dossier. This term was coined by a former executive of Microsoft, Ms. Linda Stone and refers ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2005/10/14/information-overload/ Dear Mr Dell is simply great, its about the importance of customer support, power of blogs and the need to ship quality products.Go read it. Quote: Jeff Jarvis says: But you didn’t just lose three PC sales and me as a customer. Today, when you lose a customer, you ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2005/08/18/dear-mr-dell/ " What Business Can Learn from Open Source " is a beautiful article from Paul Graham, this article has been founded on the comparison between Open Source and Blogging and moves on to talk about how its literally changing the corporate 'boardroom-culture'. If you are inspired, then the logical next ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2005/08/09/quotwhat-business-can-learn-from-open-sourcequot-paul/ This with reference to two security news item that i came across more or less at the same time frame. 1. Cisco, ISS file suit against rogue researcher Quote: "We don't want them to further discuss it," said Cisco spokesman John Noh. "This is about protecting our intellectual ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/ajay/2005/07/28/disclose-or-hide-or-responsibly-disclose/