Each startup or business should now have a Chief Review Officer. The Chief Review Officer will need to look after all reviews that the company gets in their websites, social media pages, and any other public platforms. The officer will need to correspond with the right person/department as needed and address the customers’ concern/queries. As…
Category: strategy
Not an underdog story
What’s it feel like to win your first championship? Listen to Kyle Lowry talk about his team, Toronto Raptors winning its first championship. It’s insightful, introspective and inspiring.
Realize
You prepare. You take action. At times, the results do not come out as you hoped. Realization of what you could have done better is a very important skill. Failure is a great teacher. It teaches us so much more than winning (not to say winning is not important). When the results are not good,…
A future beyond traffic gridlock
Kathmandu faces an acute traffic congestion problem. As thousands of people face this problem on a daily basis and more vehicles being added to the capital’s roads, I’m researching how cities around the world are managing their own traffic congestion. I found a related/useful video on Ted which is worth listening to: Bill Ford talking…
Celebrities speaking up
When celebrities speak up on contemporary issues, is it good or bad for their “personal brand”? Do all celebrities have the luxury to speak up on contemporary issues and voice their opinion(s)? What current or potential sports endorsements would be affected for the athletes if they speak up (or not speak up)? Do consumers today…
Traverse Nepal : The Home Coming
Choices and customers
In a good business environment, the customers have a lot of product/service options to choose from. Whether customers are shopping for groceries, fashion, gadgets to cars, houses, boats, there are a plethora of product/service providers. As choices become abundant, the customers make decisions based on many things. Some things that make customers choose your brand…
Soft skills never go out of style
57% of senior leaders today say soft skills are more important than hard skills. Strengthening a soft skill is one of the best investments you can make in your career. Plus, the rise of AI is only making soft skills increasingly important, as they are precisely the type of skills robots can’t automate. –LinkedIn Soft skills…
A learning organization
To stay relevant in the market, be ahead of the competition, and to attract/keep talent, the company’s members’ need to be continuously learning. If the members are not learning, they are not growing. Most companies know that the employees are its biggest asset. What they know and how they act can differ greatly. Learning has…
Dashain Tihar – Sugam Pokharel
Happy Dashain and Tihar 2076!!!
Career Expo-2019
Sagarmatha Engineering College and Sagarmatha College of Science and Technology organized Career Expo 2019 at Hotel Annapurna. I talked about the current tech scene in Kathmandu, qualities to have in a fresh graduate, and skills that will help in career growth. Some glimpses of the Career Expo:https://www.facebook.com/college.sagarmatha/videos/483207845856159/UzpfSTEzMTc5NzM1MzU1MjgwOToyNDEwOTU3NzY1NjM2NzQ1/
How Bill Gates reads books
Insightful, interesting, and inspiring!
Experienced learner
The saying goes “Experience is the best teacher.” With experience, comes confidence, knowledge, and a good sense of intuition. When you get hired, you get paid for your “experience.” Can you tell us about your experience managing teams or projects is a common question at job interviews. Employers’ believe that a new hire with relevant…
re:Work
re:Work is a collection of practices, research, and ideas from Google and others to help you put people first. re:Work is organized around ways you can make an impact in your workplace. I love this part “Learning & Development – Empower your employees to grow and develop by making learning part of everyone’s job.” I’ll…
Is there such thing as too much press in business?
Yes, there is! I used to believe that getting a lot of press coverage for any business would be good. It would be great to create more buzz, more people would would know about it, more people would be ready to purchase the product, and ultimately there would be more sales. What could be wrong…
Improving Nepal’s education system
We can improve Nepal’s education system. If there is one thing that I strongly believe will improve Nepal’s educational system, it would be improving the quality of the teachers. The foundation of an excellent education system is the teachers. Students spend majority of their time at school/college with the teachers compared to other stakeholders (admissions,…
Secrets of Himalaya | Nepal in 4K
Pure. Calm. Peaceful. A video by Sergi Martínez Miró
Managing vehicle traffic in Nepal
Kathmandu faces an acute traffic congestion problem. News of traffic congestion worsening are not rare. The population density is increasing, more vehicles are being added on the road, construction happening almost everywhere etc. We can’t just wait for Dashain holidays to be able to drive comfortably in our capital when most people go to their…
just be YOU!
The best way to build a personal brand is to be yourself. Being authentic is the most prized asset in today’s world. For people who want to become a personal brand or have their company connect with the customers, the decision is simple: be authentic. Your audience can easily see right through when you are…
Startup Weekend Kathmandu
What did I gain out of participating in Startup Weekend Kathmandu 2013? Frankly, I got so much out of it. It’s hard to put it in words everything that I got out of the three day Startup Weekend but I will try to summarize it. The first Startup Weekend Kathmandu happened in early February 2013….