Many startups fail to scale up, though they have great business ideas and the founders don’t lack either intelligence or passion. Here are the top reasons that are so obvious but neglected. First, mental resilience provides the magic sauce of high adversity quotient and breakthrough innovation. What are you doing to build and preserve your […]
In my previous post, I shared with you the six fundamentals for small businesses to survive and scale up their business. Many of these small businesses are or aspire to be family enterprises. Let us now look at the family dimension. Forbes says ‘70 % of the family-owned businesses fail or are sold before they […]
We must not miss the fact that all large businesses were medium, small, micro and startups at some point in the past. Interestingly 20% of enterprises fail within the first year, only 50% survive beyond 5 years, and only 30% survive beyond 10 years. Here are 6 fundamentals of survival and business growth of a […]
Would you buy a badly designed mobile phone or a badly designed piece of furniture or a badly designed car? Product design is critical to the success of a product in a fiercely competitive market. Companies invest millions of dollars in getting their product design right. Same is the case with service design which is […]
UN Women news says ‘Women are overrepresented in many of the industries hardest hit by COVID-19, such as food service, retail, and entertainment. Projections from the ILO suggest that due to COVID-19 women’s employment is 19% more at risk than men. As quarantine measures keep people at home, close schools, and day-care facilities, the burden […]
The Covid pandemic in the year just gone by was a huge 'black swan' event that most of the people didn’t see coming. In these 15 months, vulnerabilities were exposed in every sphere of human existence. Some have perished, unfortunately; some have survived, and some have thrived. At the end of 2019, I decided to […]
