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It all started from 2004 with the birth of Orkut and Facebook in same year. In initial days everyone were tilted more to Orkut and with time Facebook gained popularity and finally Orkut had to face its natural death like any other product.  Social media earlier started as platform to share your recent vacation, functions etc, but today has kept most of us 'busy' on to our smartphones. When I say 'Busy', it's according to comScore 2017 Future in Focus report, which measured an average person spending time on Top 5 social media which covers (Youtube, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter) a person spends close to 2 hours on these media with 66% of interactions happening through smartphone and remaining of interactions over desktop.      Photo by  William Iven  on  Unsplash Average daily Time spent on Social media :  Above clearly means we spend around 1 hour 56 minutes on top 5 social media, when you furt...

India is to overtake China in population growth. We are expected to grow faster than the world growth rate, according to National Commission on population.   The scarier part is not the growth of population with limited resource, it is also the growth in technology. With the growth in area of Artificial Intelligence , Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a top voice on tech in China claims that Artificial intelligence will replace half of all jobs in the next decade. This means we have more population with lesser jobs and wider gap in societies. And History has taught us well on what happens when there is wide gap in society.  Its time for us to start thinking. Comfort or necessity ? Share in your thoughts 

One of the most important aspect for an organisation is to be in regular touch with customers / vendors / accounts through various ways and what they believe the most productive being the official face-face meetings.  But as companies are expanding their markets, targets, reaching out to different level of contacts, with existing resource. This increases the travel time of employees and will only bring down the productivity level of each employee. This is more applicable to Sales, Marketing, Service, Purchases departments who are always on the move. Too much travelling will drain out the ' physical ' and ' mental ' energy of your employees. Many times the objective of the visit gets diluted due these drained out energies. According to a survey carried out in US with around 2,000 Americans, where 91% of the respondents agreed that too much time away from work had consequences on work productivity, also 70% of the respondents said i...

The Vice President had lost his audience mid way of his speech with a montonous and uninterested content. Noticing this the Managing Director of company who was next to address the employee at the half yearly event wanted to get back the audience. So he started with an aggressive start. "Good morning my dear colleagues, i am sure the canteen services have improved and we get the best food here. I see that in all your eyes." Sarcastically started the MD.  "As many employees here are future leaders, let me start this speech with a short story. There were a group of young soldiers who were lost in peaks of Alps, Swiss. It was getting dark and they wanted to get back to their base camp. A young soldier in group who was carrying some food in his bag, emptied it and suddenly realised that there was a map stuck to the bag. He took the map and gathered the other soldiers to lay out the route to the base camp. They all laid out the map and started moving in the dir...

Traffic signal is one of the most spent time for an Indian commuter and recently when i was passing through the signals i happened to notice a defined pattern by the beggars / homeless For them we are customers and i noticed that they were quickly able to identify who would lend them money and who wouldn't. They had a quick 120 seconds only and covering maximum number of vehicles would maximise their earnings too. Higher coverage of vehicles -> Higher would be their earnings                                                   Having observed the same at few more traffic signals, i realised that it is indeed important for us too in organisations to spend our time with right customers. Customers who were interested, customers who would provide us with the orders. After all, we all have same amount of time and its effective " TIME MANAGEMENT " which...