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Saturday, March 10

Department of One

After Meraj left to join Rediff, I have been pretty much functioning as a department of one...

And managing it reasonably well(that's what I feel)! I have realised that small planning cells in small agencies could do well with a lot of crowd sourcing...

At times, I have opened up problems and tapped into the wisdom of the community/ blogosphere. Totally, unimaginable few years back/even last year!

John(Grant) for macro issues; Neil, Thotblurb for idea bouncing...Reshma, Dina for research learnings...
The nodes of interaction/ learning are expanding every day!

However, this also has meant putting in a lot of trust in people!
But the experiment seems to be working...
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keep on bouncing those ideas!

3:19 AM
Unknown said...

hey neil, wassup!!

8:33 AM

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