non interference vs interference

February 18th, 2010

If your house stinks, u can either clean it up, or ur neighbors will clean it for you (or tear it down). All depends on you.

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Small effective ways to vent your thoughts…

January 26th, 2010

There are small but effective ways to get your messages across. And Humors work !

just a crude and tiny example of how easily information are carried forward. A Video.

this is how your message gets carried across fast and heard around the world , not through the headlines of paper newspapers anymore

Just predicting the inevitability in Nepal where mobile penetration jumped 6% from 20% to 26% in the last 6 months

Ujw

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thoughts on startups (starting up your organization or ventures)

January 9th, 2010

Here are some quick thoughts I wrote up, for those of you interested in starting up your own organizations /ventures.
  1. Learn to Delegate – But learn everything still :)
  2. Regroup quickly after a crisis -the end is only when you end.
  3. Stop comparing . Do what you believe is right.
  4. Bet on your heart. But go slow.
  5. Improve your product/service each day.
  6. Make it fun.
  7. Write a blog.
  8. Maintain your relationships.
  9. Do small experiments often.
  10. Often say No.
  11. Celebrate small successes.
  12. Focus on creating “culture.”

For more on my thoughts, I invite you to visit “whynepal.com“

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need for a “patient systemic process”

December 16th, 2009

Acumen Fund describes “patient capital” as not to seek high returns, but rather to jump-start the creation of enterprises that improve the ability of the poor to live with dignity.”

Ashu (Ashutosh Tiwari) and I are both fans of Acumen Fund. And we believe what we are doing in our group, “Entrepreneurs for Nepal”, complements their efforts by setting up a “patient systemic process” that helps in the effective implementations of “patient capital”. In our frequent brainstormings, we found ourselves always coming back to this central theme, “being patient, being persistent, and  building organizations with this combination of patience and persistence.”

A “patient systemic process” involves spending time patiently but persistently building systems in place in your organizations, into your career or into your businesses. In the context of Nepal, we have got to invest more time and energy into learning how to make  resilient  systems with processes built by patience but persistence. This means building system of processes in almost every end goal in your business/organization, whether it is  dividends, team-building, organizational growths,  profits or career growths.

Once you have processes in place, the system will be resilient.

Please post your comments in whynepal.com and continue the discussion in our facebook group, “Entrepreneurs for Nepal”


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A better use of the old Royal Palace in Kathmandu.

December 13th, 2009

Want some creative use of the old Royal Palace! It is a huge space in the most lucrative business districts of the country and it now houses a stupid museum and a stupid bureaucratic hole. So lets suggest some creative ideas for this space. Here are some of mine:

  • Take the bloody foreign ministry somewhere else first.
  • Get a bid for building a hybrid limited storied business- commercial shopping complex all around the Palace. This way new businesses will have a new address to attract nepalis and foreigners alike. Cap the design to be more architecturally Kathmandu’s Malla period architecture. Let there be a open plan/competition for architects for a design that incorporates tourism complex with a big park in the middle.  Use this to attract responsible tourism related business into the complex. (plan is to extend and upgrade Thamel’s charm there in a more cultural plus natural framework).
  • Let most of the revenue go towards building an impecabbly well maintained park not unlike the “Garden of Dreams” next door in Thamel. This will be our ‘Central Park of New York.’ Build a park where people can walk, children can play and pets can be brought in safely. Ban Big gatherings. They can go do that out in the streets of Kathmandu where they belong.
  • Also make it a space for morning/evening walks, outdoor running, and peaceful meditation spots.
  • Make another small space  within this,where Artists, musicians, dancers, creative teams (not political) can hold open gatherings (without too much disturbances – architects can design this within the huge space of the Former Royal Palace.
  • Make the park vehicle free but build a underground parking area though that will generate additional revenue and people can park their vehicles in peace.
  • A Question: Make it open but with strict enforcement to keep out the law breakers around ? ” or keep it closed and with an affordable fee -easier to manage? catch-22?

Add your own ideas in the comments below at whynepal.com

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