Tuesdays with a farmer -- Instinct, Intuition and Fear

Student: How do we distinguish between Instinct and Intuition?


Farmer: The way to look at this is your life!  Don’t look at some books you have read or what people have said.  All points of reference have to be finally connected with your life. Don’t look for an intellectual answer. It will make people feel that you are smart. But it really doesn’t move anything far. Find a reference point close to your life. You get straight into the point from there.  

Tuesdays with a farmer -- Science and Technology

Technology cannot go ahead of what there is. Technology is an application oriented thing. It doesn’t know how to do good for the society. It wants to do good for itself. People have been talking about having a connected India for around seven to 10 years now.

“Social Media Strategy” – Couples in nuptial bliss or strange bedfellows?

Few days back, I attended Global Youth Marketing Forum 2011 at Mumbai. The growing prominence of Social Media in the year 2010, thanks to facebook mania triggered by The Social Network et al, has injected Social Media Steroids into every marketer’s veins. It was clearly evident during the seminar as every Social Media consultant and Marketer talked of Social Media Revolution, seducing the audience (comprising marketers, aspiring marketers and enthusiasts) with voluptuous statistics, ranging no less than millions, of followers for every brand that rode the social media wave.

Before I go any further, let me put few disclaimers.

Tuesdays with a farmer -- Old Vs New Business

You may be good in your business and yet be out of it
One of the ways to success in the Old Era was that you had to be good at your business. You cannot be out of your business if you are good at it. Whatever the prerequisites were, if you are able to fulfill those, you will be a leader in your business. Twenty years back, Crossword  should have been runaway success amongst book stores in India. It would have become India's Barnes and Noble. While, it is doing a good job,we wonder 


What’s happening???

Tuesdays with a farmer -- Networks and Hierarchies



Farmer: It was just a funky idea. In the Early 2000s, one daring chap from a small country posted on the Web, “If anybody can host me for free, I will come there”.  Believe it or not. He actually went across the world without paying a single penny. People thought that it would be great to have somebody from a small country where he was from. Somebody paid for the airfare. Somebody said, “I would pay for the bus ride ,say, from Zurich to Luxembourg”. He went across the whole world for free.