June | 2016 | thebengali

I, the Common Beast

June 30, 2016 by thebengali

Some time ago, I was reading an article on some great leader at some great company, who spoke about the two strategies to retain employees: provide them meaningful work and provide them with an environment where they collaborate with quality people. It was profound and genius and … bullshit. This is the kind of stuff kings, rulers, governments, religious soothsayers and leaders have been spewing for centuries to meet their ultimate goal: tame enough of the human spirit in volumes […]

Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: Community, India, leadership, Learning, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, Strategy, thebengali, Work

Communication

June 30, 2016 by thebengali

I miss my friends. Some of them are right here in Pune, but they might as well be keeping my other friends company in Mumbai, Delhi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Frisco, among other cities. Was a time when my friends were around the country, but I could write a letter to them. We would likely meet once a year, maybe once in two years, but I felt close to them. Today I can pick up the phone and call them any […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Self, Society • Tags: Communication, Communication Technology, FB, Sanjay Mukherjee, Social Media, thebengali

Truth

June 29, 2016 by thebengali

And I now stand here looking back at then Then when I was Me, with a different belief. And a Then When I was also Me, with another belief. And all the Thens When I was Me with different beliefs in different Times. And in each Time? The belief was Truth. It was Truth for I acted upon them. And I lived by them. And I fought for them. And I loved for them. And so it was with every […]

Categories: Learning, Self, Society • Tags: Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali, Truth

“Fear has no place in success anywhere”

June 27, 2016 by thebengali

Jaisurya Das (@jaisurya_das) is a media professional, who is considered a marketing guru, especially strategies centred around the concepts of #Neuromarketing (strategies based on market research that study audience behaviour including cognitive and affective response to stimuli). His illustrious media career spanned very successful stints with Bennett Coleman & Company’s #TimesofIndia brand and #TheSakalGroup. In 2003, he founded #XanaduConsulting Group Pvt Ltd (one of the premier media consulting firms in India). In 2016, he co-founded his first media company: #Pune365.

Categories: People, Society • Tags: Consulting, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, featured, Jaisurya Das, leadership, Media, Neuromarketing, Pune365, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali, Xanadu Consulting

Happy (having viewed an electric show from Bo Burnham)

June 12, 2016 by thebengali

In July 2003, after an exciting and invigorating stint with the local (Pune) newspaper edition of a global media giant, I decided to move on from day-to-day journalism. I was a sub-editor by day and by night: a commentator and critic on contemporary lifestyle matters, with specific interest in learning, and the performing arts, with a further focus on music. Over a duration of six years, I was grateful for the opportunity to have spent long, long hours with renowned […]

Categories: Learning, Science & Technology, Society, The Arts • Tags: Bo Burnham, Forbes.com, Generation Alpha, Generation Z, Generations Y, Huffington Post, Make Happy, Millennials, Netflix, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali

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Monthly Archives: June 2016

I, the Common Beast

Truth

“Fear has no place in success anywhere”

Happy (having viewed an electric show from Bo Burnham)