Tesla – Regulatory Credits Story ?

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Tesla Regulatory credits story

Tesla had to earn US$ 401 Million of regulatory credits in Q4 of FY20, for net income of US$ 270 Million. Best part about regulatory credits is that, they get directly added to the bottom-line. Tesla has secured almost US$ 1.6 Billion in these credits, till now.  Why regulatory credits to Tesla ? Many governments across world incentivise auto manufacturers, to...

Bitcoin – Roller coaster ride !

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Bitcoin

Emergence of Bitcoin in explained in Introduction to Blockchain blog.  It is a secured online system, for direct payment from one party to another without an intermediary, such as banks, etc. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate, with no central authorities or administrators. Managing transactions and the issuing of Bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network of nodes,...

R-value below 1 now! A sign of situation getting under control?

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pandemic

In last couple of months, cases of Covid-19 kept rising. They peaked above 4 lacs, in early May. Now, there is a good news. First time in few months, the R-value, i.e. the rate of spread of Covid-19, has fallen a notch below 1, on 15th May. It had touched 1.32 in March. This will bring sigh of relief...

Heroes of Pandemic

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Pandemic

In year 2020, the world faced the worst pandemic in 100 years. No Government,  NGO or smartest of the people were prepared for this. It brought almost the entire world to standstill, for better part of 2020. Resulting in economic crisis for millions of people and most countries. The year also witnessed world coming together to fight Coronavirus. These...

Book Review – From Wealth to Power, The unusual origins of America’s world role, by Fareed Zakeria

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From wealth to power by Fareed Zakeria

I was intrigued more with the subtitle of the book and I wondered what makes America a great nation that the countries around the world have influence not only on their economies but also social fabric of the society. I wondered what makes a few centuries old civilization an economic super power having impact on daily lives of people originating...

Miraculous survival of baby from airstrikes in Gaza

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Baby survived in air strikes at Gaza

The conflict between Israel and Palestine surfaced again, after many months. As usual, the civilians are suffering in this mini war. Till 15th May, 147 people are dead. Among them are 23 women and 41 children. Amidst, this relentless bombardment, there was an incident of miraculous survival of a baby. In Gaza, during the rescue operations, paramedics found an...

Samudra Manthan

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samudra manthan

Most hindus know that during Samudra Manthan, Amrut, the nectar of life, emerged from ocean of milk. All the devas consumed it and they attained immortality. Samudra Manthan is one of the most important stories of Hindu Mythology. It has mention in Bhagvat Puran, Mahabharat & Vishnu Puran. Lord Vishnu played most critical role in the episode. The story of Samudra...

Book Review – 10 Lessons for post pandemic world – by Fareed Zakaria

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Book review -10 lessons fareed zaharia

Fareed has brought uncommon rational approach in examining the world impacted by novel CORONAVIRUS. His narratives are original and grounded in reality with scientific approach. Here are nuggets and takeaways from the book that I personally found of great value.       "Ultimately, countries are on their own. There will be time of war, peace, pandemic and economic growth." "The difference between domestic...

Impress yourself and win others!

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Impress yourself and win others

Don’t impress others, impress yourself! For Audio-Visual experience, click You-Tube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wa6JRwWdUY There are so many different people that we deal day to day. They have different perspectives about what we do, they will judge us any way. If we try impressing each such person, by considering his or her perspective, we will get tired. We will be living their...

Getting over cold calling jitters

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getting over cold calling jitters

Cold calling is not a sales activity, it is an art, useful in every walk of life and which I have learnt over the 3 decades of my business development career. I am sharing some insights from my experience in this series of videos. Hope it helps you people, who are striving to increase sales in these turbulent times. As...

Blockchain Opportunities & Challenges

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Blockchain opportunities

Opportunities $ 10 trillion is the potential size of Blockchain technology ecosystem consisting of Cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and decentralization – says Royal Bank of Canada report. Mark Cuban has announced that his basketball team Dallas Mavericks will begin accepting Cryptocurrency during next season.  Companies, the owners of the logos in this picture, along with likes of 1800-flowers, Bloomberg, etc have...

Nobody is loser !

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nobody-is-loser

Nobody is loser. A person is winner or a learner. Still, many a times we hear people referring to someone as a loser. He is laughed at or looked down upon. Actually, he is a not a loser. It was the situation, that he couldn’t win in. For Audio- Visual Experience click the YouTube link https://youtu.be/PWtkDgjmdUs Imagine, if Lionel Messi was asked...

Life always gives second chance

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Life always gives second chance

Life always gives second chance in most aspects of life, off course not all of them. If you break an egg, you can’t join it back, but you can always have another egg. For Audio-Visual Experience, click YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiNcUBHiU5c An Ideal person doesn’t lose opportunity, but such an ideal person doesn’t exist. There won’t be a person on the earth,...

India’s state of innovation through Power Distance Index

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Power distance index

Power Distance Index measures willingness of employees to be subservient towards authority, in India the PDI is 77 which is significantly high and compelling enough to construe that positional power trumps above all . This can even be couched as problem of impact of national culture on innovation. How does it relate to innovation? Positional power in hierarchy has a tendency to...