Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Why, in the hell, didn't I write for so long?

You might have already noticed after reading the title that I haven't written anything on my blog for almost 6 months. So I thought, let me rationalize and write few points why I didn't.
  1. Reading through the many case studies, I see myself at loss of words without charts and tables. Unless there's a growth of x%, loss of market share of y%, cannibalization of z% and so on, there doesn't seem to be anything logical in writing. Then there are those data tables which I'm so fond of exporting to Excel and playing with. Writing without Excel is suddenly so damn difficult.
  2. A similar reason the point 1 above, I don't have any "learnings to share" or recommendations to give when it comes to the readers of this blog. I'm sure none of the readers want to "advertise aggressively", "educate and train their employees", "explore a new business model such as...", or "implement IT solutions across the entire supply chain". And especially not, when they are reading such things through a petty blog for free. Apparently, people accept the advice when they pay money, but not for free. I guess, that's why consultants are highly desired around the world.
  3. Have you ever had that feeling, when you don't have anything to do, you don't feel like doing anything else as well? In the recent times, I was so bored having too much time to myself. In fact, I haven't even touched my guitar since last few weeks (probably touched is the wrong word because I lifted it once to clean the floor beneath; but you get the point).
  4. I'm sure reading the 4th point, Gera would be disappointed. Apparently, it's the Mckinsey standard to keep things limited to 3 points. Even if it is the theory of relativity that you're explaining. But anyway, I'm not interested in Mckinsey (which is my joker's cry for the more realistic reason that they'll never take me in), so let me write the 4th point. To add on to the 3rd point (this is a new thing that I've learned from few classes; if you don't have anything to say, you can start with "to add on to his/her point..." and simply repeat the same crap), the few interesting things that have happened during the reprieve of last month have been overshadowed by my boredom of doing nothing for the most part. So, when I think of writing about the things, I always see the long periods of doing nothing.

Now, I need to get back to the charts, graphs, and tables and writing recommendations for some of the giants. Guess, what's my favourite recommendation - get out of the business :).

10 comments:

Unknown said...

As you can already see...the 4th point is basically there just because Vidhan wanted a fourth point...atmost what it does is RCP - Repeat Class Participation! It does not add value..and McKinsey would certainly not do anything that does not add or subtract;) substantial value!! hehe..Sumit

Namit said...

Look who's back! Wilkommen!

Vid said...

I assume that's German for welcome! Thanks :)

Anonymous said...

Now you wrote after such a long time,i thought you would be writing something intersting. But what i read just now has shattered my hopes... :(

Vid said...

I would've written a "nice" reply but for my recent donning of the diplomatic me. So let me just say, thanks for the compliment that you actually "hope", and that too in plural, about my writing.

Anonymous said...

yeh and i still hope that some day u will become human.

Anonymous said...

or atleast behave like one !!

Vid said...

Ahem!!! Do I know you from somewhere? Probably, some yahoo group or something?

If not, what are you holding against me?

Anonymous said...

:-) nah nothing like that...chill. Just checking ur patience. Doing a thesis on human Psychology, so..... dont mind :-D

Anonymous said...

hey y the read count of ur blog is increasing even if dont read what u have written ? or take it this way...Opening/Accessing ur blog wiht a single ip is increasing the readcount ?? It should not happen like this...The info is actually fake...isnt it ??
Anyways leave it...Good Day.
-Vidhi