hyderabad ahoy!

hyderabad ahoy!

we have successfully conducted our first adventure offsite in hyderabad. client [ not satyam... :) ] dr. reddy labs.

on the ground reports suggest that the participants received our offering very well. it is indeed a proud moment for me to execute in hyderabad as i am a hyderabadi.

now the day is not far where zice holidays will scale up operations in hyderabad, andhra pradesh.

iit kanpur : my learnings

i was invited to adjudicate at iit kanpur for their business festival [ jan 7 to 9' 2009 ]. this festival saw some of the best folks from various b-schools competing for the business plan award.

[ this indeed was zice holidays first at iit.]

it was a humbling experience for me as some of them came up with out of the box ideas which running businesses can implement.

also the level of enthusiasm about the winning team was infectious. i guess in order to succeed as an entrepreneur one has to have infectious energy. hard times like these need young and enterprising folks with such energy.

so bottom line e-n-e-r-g-y is a necessary prerequisite.

A friend in need

A friend in need

Your customers and employees and investors will remember how you treated them when times were tough, when they needed a break, when a little support meant everything.

No one in particular will remember how you acted during the boom times.

The above was posted by Seth Godin. I cannot but say YES to what he says .... It is so true.

Talking about my own industry i.e travel, is going through a rough patch. We have decided that the best way to be close to the customer is in tough times and not in boom times. We have double our efforts in CRM.