Enlarge. Excel. Evolve.

  2013 is coming to a close and we continue to inspire our readers to 'Enlarge Excel and Evolve' and make an honest attempt to do the same. So here goes the Top 10 posts on the blog in 2013. (We have also included Top 5 guest blog posts and Top 5 posts-All time) No 1   Mega Success Through Storytelling on Social Media Storytelling is a powerful tool, which inspires the audience and builds the reputation/brand of the storyteller too. You can share your own stories, how you helped a client and so on. Stories can take several forms. It can be a series of novels, biography/autobiography/novel, 1-2 pages stories or one paragraph and one liner stories. Here are some interesting stories I have written (Please keep in mind that I have written these stories over the past two years) ( Read More ) 2-The Art and Science of Professional Storytelling Recently I was asked to introduce myself at an event and I told, “As a child I was fond of storytelling and as a st...

  Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog)  My Global Niche Revelation (Originally posted at Global Niche ) I had a revelation in the  GlobalNiche program . For two years I’ve been growing a ‘You’ centered business in a part of the world where people usually do not draw attention to themselves and certainly not with personal details in a professional setting. You can imagine how  my work as a personal branding consultant  might face a deeply-rooted cultural contradiction.  It’s a new field in India . As one of India’s pioneers in personal branding, I speak at many events and am featured in the nation’s press. When I talk of  the necessity for personal growth to be successful on social media , my audience often gives me a puzzled look. Social media itself is a new phenomenon in India (from a professional and branding perspective) and relating it with  personal development, spirituality and wisdom  sur...

I have always believed that we are all world class in some area (which I call as deepest passion) and Anastasia calls it our Global Niche.  In any case, the bigger the market we decide to target, the more focused we need to be in terms of target segment (or niche). Fundamentally I liked the idea of discovering our global niche, though I was already in the area of global personal branding for nearly two years. I had been running an interesting interview series on my Blog, “ Vasudhaiv Kutumkam ” or The World is one family. In the series I interviewed wide range of people who were contributing to globalization in real sense of the term-development of global mindset, cross cultural exposure (and respect for other cultures) and making honest attempts to become Global citizens. Nobody is foreign in the Global Village Long back I had come to know about CNN’s  policy of not using the ‘foreign’ word on its international channels. In fact Ted Turner, the founder of CNN had ...