Start a movement in three minutes

Who helps a movement succeed? A great leader of a great follower?

Here is a potent 3 minute video that portrays how to start a movement.

This is by far the best TED video I’ve seen.

The business of Business – Nov 10 – 10am

Here are a few quick reads for tomorrow’s meetup on Business Consulting.

These are very preliminary reads and are not extremely insightful on consulting for businesses, nevertheless they provide some simple and effective tips on doing a better job at running and growing businesses.

Me and Jingjing Long will be discussing them at our 30-min get-together 10am, November 10 at Room 125 in Cornell Hall.

5 Steps To Make Sure Your Business Can Thrive Without You
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220630#ixzz1dG0BK23Y

How to Maintain Clients’ Trust While Managing a Crisis

From Harvard Business Review:
Reinventing your business model

From Entrepreneur.com
Need More Time? Wait Just a Minute, Here It Comes

We also will be taking a fun quiz:-
Quiz: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur? - http://www.entrepreneur.com/personalityquiz

 

Media Business Consulting – Dilemma

So I want to graduate from my program to become a management consultant for media businesses. I know what I want to do and I know why, and so I love it.

Awesome!

But I don’t know what to do next, that is, I don’t know how to get there. Need help, advice and guidance, any. I google searched media consulting and all I found was the overrated “social-media consulting”. That’s not what I want to do.

I want to help media businesses to grow and prosper. I want to look at their business models, their revenue streams, their key processes and advise them on how they can improve their business by making a few much-needed changes.

Hmm.

Still can’t figure it out.

I’m traveling to South by South West in Austin, Texas, March 2012 (SXSW). I don’t know how much that would help me, but SXSW calls itself the global capital of new media and some claim it is the ultimate hub in media innovation. A Reynold’s Journalism Scholar, Dan Oshinsky, recommended I sign-up for it. I am looking forward to it too.

I know what I want in the long term, but I don’t know what to do now to get there gradually and to get there well-prepared. Maybe I’ll ask someone from the legendary J-school. Maybe I’ll ask Dan.

Happy Birthday to you too :)

Every year, on my birthday, I try to put together one message from my life that I feel my friends need to be made aware of.

The fact is, I have 989 friends, all of them may not wish me, but at least a few visit my Facebook profile. So I receive the highest views in the year on this single day. I thought to myself, why not direct all these quick visits from all friends who took out two minutes from their lives for me, towards a thought/cause that can be of greater long-term benefit.

So last year when my friends dropped in to say ‘hpy bday 2u’ i thanked them and directed their attention to a photo. This year I decided to do a video instead.

I uploaded this video a few hours back. Hope to get as much traction on this as I did for this photo I uploaded on last year’s birthday.

Birthday wish for Kashmir