Many tips on how to (and how not to) finish your meal in a formal setting
It is interesting to notice how people finish a meal, in different parts of the world. Styles and systems differ, like the eating process. In the Western format, you are expected to move your face forward and eat over the plate. If any morsel of food falls, it will be on the plate—and not on your skirt or trouser. It...
In the mid-1990s, Manish Shukla was a corporate executive looking for fresh merchandising ideas. For this, he was scouting around for a merchandising consultant who could tell him how to make a brand speak to the consumer and convince him/her to buy. “Since I could not find a person who could provide me with the right merchandising advice, I thought, let me give it a shot,” says Manish Shukla....
The team included neither a scientist nor an IITan. Neither were they ever caught dismantling a watch and putting it back; but the three-member team always had the aspiration to do something different. In 2001, at the age of 37, A Rabindranath led a team of 17 drawn from his colleagues at Ernst & Young to start a consultancy company C2e Technology Labs. “All of us were engaged in onsite...
