My foray into building materials and interior infrastructure industry was in 2007, when I joined one of the leading interior infrastructure brands at Delhi as the Country Head of decorative division.
Checkmating Competition at the Point of Sale.
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Subir Palit 
Chief Strategist, Mentor, Member Management Committee, Certified Independent Director. NLP Practitioner
Managing Perceptions
“I don’t care what others think about me, I just want to get on with doing a good job only”, well good job and hard work surely matters and there is nothing wrong to have such attitude, but such attitude may not be enough for achieving the desired career goals. Personal branding has a key role to play in the development and advancing of one’s career. Creating yourself as a brand at work can often be the deciding factor for a successful career.
Enabling Strategic Collaboration: Vendor or Partner ??
Today only a few organisations have all the resources & infrastructure to tackle new market opportunities or competition independently, maintain economies of scale, cost efficiency and deep network penetration. Going it alone only, may lead to unreasonable investments and an infrastructure which may require dismantling afterwards. Business partnering can actually be cheaper and more flexible than a merger or acquisition.
“Strategic Business Partnering”, here is in context to an organisation which have manufacturing facilities but still enters into an alliance with another manufacturer for mutually beneficial goals, viz, capacity utilisation for one and for the other catering to the market demands without additional infrastructural fixed investments.Here we are not discussing of relationships viz, of a manufacturing company with trade, financial institutions or a venture capitalist.
Organisational Coma
There is a phrase in Buddhism, “kill the Buddha”, it means that the ideas you have learned to bring you to this point of clarity need to be let go of, if you are to go further and step into your power.
But, why exactly would we want to let go or unlearn?
Does what we already know prevents us from knowing more?
Right from our childhood we are programmed to answer every day at home or school,
What did you learn today?
On Boarding The Trade Partner
There’s a saying, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future” – Chaplain Ronnie Melancon
Repurposing this quote and using this in business context to understand the importance of trade channel partners one may rephrase it to “Show me your trade partners and we can predict the future of the organisation”.
What Will I Unlearn Today??
There is a phrase in Buddhism, “kill the Buddha”, it means that the ideas you have learned to bring you to this point of clarity need to be let go of, if you are to go further and step into your power.
But, why exactly would we want to let go or unlearn?
Does what we already know prevents us from knowing more?
Right from our childhood we are programmed to answer every day at home or school,
What did you learn today?