Introduction As a small business owner, the hustle is real. Starting your own company is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride filled with ups, downs, twists, and turns. It’s a journey that tests your resilience, challenges your limits, and ultimately shapes you into a stronger, more determined version of yourself. This is not the first time I … Read more
Here are ten principles for achieving success. These are some of the lessons learned from my own personal experience. Experience is the best teacher. Takeaways: To your Success! #thoughts #success #kkrocks
Some thoughts, on Sales, Customer relationships, and Business in general: 1. One size doesn’t fit all. 2. Everyone needs to “eat” [read it as “buy”]. 3. They may need supplies today or someday soon. 4. Our job is to explore what the customer likes. 5. Presence of competition in the market proves that no single … Read more
My childhood & schooling were all in small towns. But when I started working, I found myself in a city that was [and is] a capital of a state. A few months into the job, I was told to get my own bike. If you are in sales, you need to have one. And you … Read more
I met a couple the other day in the elevator when I was coming back home after my morning walk. Let me first warn you. Don’t think that I go for a walk daily. I don’t. The couple asked me how long it had been since I had moved in here. Sometime in 2010, we … Read more
Entrepreneurship & value creation are two things that help you live your life to the fullest. It is nothing but pure magic. If you deliver value and if some people are willing to pay for it, your happiness knows no bounds. Not because you are making money. But because it is being valued. Wealth creation … Read more
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.” – Anonymous. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi. “The only limits you see are the ones you impose on yourself.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer “If your life’s work can be accomplished in your … Read more
Saravanan. That’s the name of the boy who worked as “Office Assistant” [called as “Office boy” in India] at our office. He was a true professional. He understood his job very well. He never wasted a single minute. He was always busy. He had to make coffee, tea, deliver products to customers, and get the … Read more
That was the time I was running a recruitment consulting business. I had a small team. We were doing sourcing & recruitment of niche skills. That’s when a friend met me in a supermarket store in the neighborhood one evening. All of a sudden, he asked me: How are you making your ends meet, Kannan?” … Read more
In Jan 1983, Steve Jobs along with Apple employees were at an off-site retreat in Carmel, California. Jobs, to motivate the developers. He offered a maxim: “It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy”. “Being a pirate meant being audacious and courageous, willing to take considerable risks for greater rewards.” The group was … Read more