21st Century Journalist & Consulting

Job description of a 21st century journalist
a. Highly intelligent filter of information
We consultants also have to be sharp at sifting useful information from noise.
b. Expert in reputation and reliability systems, able to know who the reliable sources are since there are so many sources.
We consultants also have to use discretion and link to only selected few reputed, reliable and quality sources of information. Seriously there are too many sources!
c. Community manager, managing a community of people who have knowledge and interacting with them, not only networking with the right people but also working efficiently with large groups of people to synthesize information.
We consultants also have to tap into the knowledge and experience of highly resourceful community of colleagues and networks. The future is in collaborative problem solving!
d. Demand manager, able on taking knowledge coming from how people use internet, what they are doing, understand the clues to demand and produce into that demand.
We consultants also have to look for clues of demand from the change forces impacting our customers’ businesses and create the right products and solutions for them to efficiently respond to the change forces.
e. Accepting that their audience knows more than they do and treat them not just as a readership but as participants in the creation of journalism. Treating the collective knowledge of the readers as an important asset and be able to get some of that coming in, filter and synthesize it into something worth putting out. This is going to be hard to accept!
We consultants also encounter situations where some of our customers know more than us. This can make us nervous and hard to accept! We will probably see these situations more often in the future, We will have to accept this as a natural thing but show our value by taking what our customers have, add our own knowledge and experience and give them a product that is of worth and value.
We will see knowledge becoming more and more accessible to everyone. Knowledge by itself will gradually cease to be of competitive advantage. The key differentiator will come from quality of knowledge and integration of knowledge from various sources to create products of value addressing the real needs of the customer.
We consultants will have to be adept as facilitators, integrators, knowledge brokers and innovators.
Future winners will own a problem space and productively build and orchestrate an ecosystem of resources to address that problem space!
For those interested in the interview, the full video is available at http://video.economist.com/?fr_chl=1257fd4a3f457735719f845205531ed840915d9c

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Random Thinking - 3

•Investigate
•How to work with people of different IQ s especially when the gap is perceptably large?
•Challenges of an everyday consultant -survival tips
•Working with a slippery client

Random Thinking - 2

•Induction pack to a consulting engagement
•Principles of consulting
•Rectangle of constraints
•Sponsor n his concerns. Firsteeting with sponsor.
•Reestablishvthevproblem
•80:20 rule
•Decisions paper- document n communicate all decisions. Each decision eliminates confusion and brings you closer to the solution
•Stakeholder dossier- strategy to address each effectively
•Communications - decisions, solutions, direction cheching
•Kick off meeting - sponsor missing?
•Team building - forming, storming, etc, know each other well, all are equals different experience to the table learn from each other
•Consulting kit - blue tac, post it's etc
•Ulterior motives. Key stakeholder behaviours
•Pragmatic solution to the customer environment
•Use common terminology
•Support each other
•Level of experience n iq
•Expectation mgt- meet at least the cust expectation, do not overdo
•Flexibility on work
•Recovery time

Random Thinking - 1

•Rectangle of constraints - quality, excellence, world class, nonpareil
•Razor sharp focus
•Traditinal thinkers, evolutionary thinkers, innovative thinkers - dishas education
•I should not need to sell. The product should sell itself.
•1 3 5 10 rule
•3 offices
•Acid tests of ideas
•Krishna is the guiding spirit
•Pre requisites - health
•Goals, principles, as is, to be, roadmap, metrics, value, fine tune, projects, acid test
•Risk taking. Don't bet the whole life. Create a channel of revenue that will fulfil my minimum needs - rent, bonds, etc
•Be online with the long term need of the world as well if possible
•Read a book a month
•My office
•My clothes
•Make ap model itsel as Israel
•Worried about land n space - think japan, vertical farming, even Israel
•Scaling up. Google apple only after the small scale thing succeeds do I go to bigger things
•Does india do any one thing that is número UNO world wide like iPhone or google
•My shirts exclusive premium going to place where the service is. Why not bring a service the brings in people from any part of the world for this exclusive service.
•Prople n compatibility test. My companys values n ethos. Create a mckinsey don't create a Wipro. Not qaintity quality not numbers but
•Why do I need to go to india?
•So that I an we can spend more time n have more meals together with our most intimate people - parents, siblings
•We think westenets rchappy but they look at india as a model for some of the values ESP the family values. Adopt the best things of this world.
•World governance
•Special countries Netherlands israel japan new Zealand
•Idea - 7 cuisines bring clients to you. Thai, Mexican, nandos, Japanese, lebanese, Spanish, Indian. This can be similar to the bar in dhoom 2
•I can use kishores skills well, he is like a quality contrl correction. Giving more objective opinions. Arthi n her Sindhi people may also be an asset.
•I need to reinforce these thoughts. Make them congruent.
•This seems like the treasure trove for me.
•As if visiting 7 countries
•A good weeks holiday
•It's an experience
•Open day to common pepl
•Mathuradam
•Location in ap
•Stress buster
•Tourist place
•Start small
•Be like steve jobs don't reveal anything until it is concrete
•Highly confidential
•What is that I would give my customers. They do not need to Italy to Experience Italy.
•The final success test is that Italians should get interested I'm coming down to this place.

Business Ideas Brainstorming

- Restaurants country themes
- Resorts country themes
- Financial Investments
- World class services to chosen towns & villages; challenge of infrastructure; challenge of frugal Indian customers
- Education
- Operating from a chosen location
- Bringing customer to us
- Customer needs, preferences, market segment, vision, focus, strategy, challenges, macro and micro environment, SWOT, etc
- Broad themes of climate, pressure on natural resources, infratructure, energy, health, happiness, time, etc

Tenets of my personal life

Happiness
Time
Health
Focus
Simplicity