While seeing Luck By Chance yesterday at the PVR Phoenix, there were two film trailers that I saw, Billu Barber and Dilli 6. The former releases next Friday. A Friday, the 13th release – wonder how that will affect its fortunes! The latter releases a week later on Feb 20th. A week’s gap is enough [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Recession? What recession?? An evening at the Phoenix Mills..
Posted: February 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Business, consumer, lower parel, phoenix mills, Recession, retail, shopping
I had spent the whole day at IIT Mumbai, at the Entrepreneurship Summit (more on that, in a separate post later). I had heard entrepreneurs talking about the recession and the tough times, and survival and cost cutting and what not. And then, in the evening, I went to Phoenix Mills, to see a movie [...]
State of the economy: the hoardings say it all
Posted: February 2, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: advertisements, hoardings, state of the economy
Hoardings and press advertisements have a story to say, about the state of the economy. You know which sector’s booming and shouting itself hoarse. We cannot forget the many dot com brands that stared you in your face, in 1999-2000. We know what happened to them after the bust. In recent months, we have seen [...]
“Who will cry when you die?”
Posted: February 2, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: compare infobase, Management lessons, teamwork
My dear friend (and I’d rather call him friend than ex-boss!), Simar referred to the book by this title, few times. I never managed to read the book, but the title intrigued me, and stayed with me. Events of Saturday brought back this phrase to my mind. As I walked the four floors of the [...]
