Guess what is common to these examples listed by management guru CK Prahalad in his new management volume?

iGoogle co-creates personalisation of experience. Google provides the platform. Individual consumers decide how to use it (personalise it) to suit their particular needs, that is, for fun or learning.

The Ponds Institute asks you how you want to look and feel and your personal skin-care...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb was born in what he archaically calls Levant – a collection of cities in the eastern Mediterranean seaboard also known as Syria Libanensis. The Levant is a short distance away from principal centres of several older civilisations – Sumerian, Babylonian, Ottoman, Persian, Greek and Roman. For more than 13 centuries, Levantine cities were mercantile in nature where...

To be on the same wavelength takes hard work – in observation, learning, experimentation and implementation

Some time back, we talked about the first of the 12 golden rules in effective communication – ‘Plan and Organise.’ The second rule is ‘Be on the same wavelength.’ This is a big challenge for all communicators. It is a challenge in the family – where parents and children are often on...