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		<title>Learning from Obama &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/learning-from-obama-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I wrote a post about learnings from Obama&#8217;s election for startups &#8230; I am now compelled to write the second part of that observing what appears to be dissapointing presidency of Barack Obama. Here are some lessons for startups &#8230; Long term vision, scalability are all great but with out short term tactics <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/learning-from-obama-part-ii/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=260&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 good reasons why CWG were messed up intentionally</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May be Mr.  Suresh Kalmadi and his team are smarter than they look. Remember Pointy Haired Boss and Evil Dogbert? Here may be 5 good reasons why they intentionally messed up CWG preparations. #5. To embarrass the Queen and the British &#8230; To tell them that even this last colonial relic of the British empire <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/5-good-reasons-why-cwg-were-messed-up-intentionally/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=243&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easy lies this head with a crown &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Instant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokia OVI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare wrote &#8220;Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown&#8221; &#8230; but Google wears it&#8217;s crown as the undisputed leader of online search quite easily. After dominating the space for years, it seemed as if new threats would shake their monarchy. Real time search, decision engine type search, Bing, mobile search etc. But they seem to <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/easy-lies-this-head-with-the-crown/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=236&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still in Awe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am still in Awe of the World Trade Center twin towers that used to be. The twin towers. My job at Deloitte got me the opportunity to live next to, near and work by them. I went up the elevator reaching the top of the 105 floors in 59 seconds. I even worked in <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/still-in-awe/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=227&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not listening to customers can be fun</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/not-listening-to-customers-can-be-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, all of us believe one must listen to customers. But there are times (may be in creating disruptive innovation) it&#8217;s hard to rely only on what customers say. May be you must listen to their problems but not rely on customers too much in finding the solution. I bet no one ever they said <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/not-listening-to-customers-can-be-fun/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=213&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immortals of Meluha &#8211; A Review</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/immortals-of-meluha-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read &#8220;The Immortals of Meluha&#8221;. Kept me entertained adequately on a long road trip. It&#8217;s written by a 35 Yr old IIM-C MBA marketing executive from an MNC in the process of trying express his true passion. More than the book itself, that author&#8217;s scenario fascinated me &#8211; being one such 35 Yr <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/immortals-of-meluha-a-review/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=199&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deny all and lie low</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/deny-all-and-lie-low/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google Buzz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Yahoo, then facebook and now Google Buzz &#8230; every one wants to be twitter+facebook+mail+everything &#8230; they want to grab all our contacts and content &#8230; and force us to share with default settings, complex privacy controls, hard to follow &#8220;follows&#8221; etc. The way Google Buzz automatically added friends and enabled public access to <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/deny-all-and-lie-low/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=196&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great speech &#8230; so what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great speech by US President Obama receiving the nobel prize. Something like &#8230; &#8220;I believe in peace, but need to wage war when it is just&#8221; &#8220;I closed Guantanamo to uphold values&#8221; &#8220;Reducing n-arms is center piece of my foreign policy&#8221; &#8220;US will lead the way for climate change&#8221; YAWN. YAWN !! Except for the <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/great-speech-so-what/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=177&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buyer Beware</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/buyer-beware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAT Exam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The silver lining about the CAT mess is that it exposes lack of management skills in the IIMs across domains equally &#8211; strategy, operations, finance, marketing and systems. The story out in the news is not even tip of the &#8220;dirtberg&#8221;. Talk to actual applicants and one hears horror stories of mismanagement in the centers, <a href="http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/buyer-beware/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=172&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Internet in India not taking off?</title>
		<link>http://sridharturaga.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/why-is-internet-in-india-not-taking-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sridharturaga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do you think Internet in India has not taken off (as yet) compared to all the hopes and projections? Take this poll on my blog and share your opinion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sridharturaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5449135&amp;post=169&amp;subd=sridharturaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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