A fantastic article " Journey to the Center of Google takes one through the journey of Google’s success. " Ignoring Conventional wisdom is one aspect which google has done consistently . It has also executed all the unconventional steps with great diligence. What the google founders have done differently: 1.Inventing a search engine when everyone knew search was dead 2.Building a business on Internet advertising when everyone knew it was impossible;

Powerpoint is a tool whose power comes in to being depending on the presentor. If the presentor has cogent thoughts and presents in a concise manner , then ppt is a wonderful tool that complements his task . Alas! thats not the case usually. Pretty bad speakers/ presentors hide under the garb of technical gimmicks in the tool that the entire audience is awestruck by the techy stuff in the presentation OR bored by the whole stuff.

The story of Ron Popeil (great inventor and marketer) is a classic rags to riches story. One of the reasons he attributes to his success is innumberable interactions with the customers. Demonstrating his products in front of real live people who asked silly questions and broached objections, he was able to learn what the silly questions and objections were and build the answers and counter-arguments into his pitch. The same he carried over to television for selling Veg-O-matic which was a great commercial success.

Chess: If one looks at the game of Chess, each piece moves specified by different rules and the player knows the difference between each of the piece. The player leverages on the strengths of each piece, deploys a strategy using the pieces at various stages of the game.Playing Chess is much like managing a team. One needs to note the similarity between chess pieces and team members. Every piece is important for the ultimate aim, the victory.

Nowadays, it is rare that any website does not have rss feed . Hence most of the times I tend to subscribe the feed so as to track it forever. This works well for dynamic content. However there are umpteen number of instances where we want to keep track of few static pages. The solution ,generally followed is to store it in browser favorites. There are 2 drawbacks with this approach: