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Jaspal Kahlon
Jul 31, 20103 min read
How did I become rich?
Time: 1988-92 Location: Tinplate Colony, Jamshedpur Growing up in Jamshedpur and about a year short of being a teenager, I had turned...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jul 11, 20101 min read
Work Pressure
At work, pressures can be of 3 types- Atmospheric pressure, Boss pressure and Task pressure. There is only so much that we can do about...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jul 3, 20102 min read
Missed opportunities- I need to be more careful
Year 2005 was when, I was working quite closely with journalists- courtesy a Print Media company. I realised that despite a formal...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jun 28, 20101 min read
Inflation joke on Sardars
Inflation is defined as phenomenon of erosion in purchasing power of money due to increase in prices of goods and services. Price of...
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Jaspal Kahlon
May 17, 20102 min read
Using Statistics for decision-making- 1st step to innovation
I must say that "Innovation" is one of the most misused words. CVs of management professionals boast about how innovative they are, and...
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Jaspal Kahlon
May 7, 20102 min read
Why prefer being a Carpenter or something else than a Manager?
Note this: a. We sold 2 old ACs (more than 10 year model) to a guy who specializes in trading in old ACs. He rents out ACs during the...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Apr 17, 20103 min read
Money appoints God as Manager
Money or “Maya” as stated in Hindu mythology is believed to be the cause of all evils in this world. I recall my uncle saying telling me,...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Mar 7, 20102 min read
Monica left me far behind; Jassica teaches me financial planning
Interactions with my wife and 8 year old daughter over the weekends are quite insightful at times. I never felt the need to visit...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Mar 6, 20103 min read
Insulting Services- New business venture
Chats during short office breaks (quite frequent ones for some) are at times refreshing to listen to and participate. Usually topics...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Feb 19, 20101 min read
Fear of reading- It seems ‘hearing’ is better ‘reading’
I recall several instances when I have come across individuals who have resisted reading a document. Instead they have preferred...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jan 31, 20102 min read
What’s better- commonsense or being rational?
My wife looks upon me as a more “rational being” than having “commonsense”. I have very few instances in last 15 years of our...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jan 24, 20101 min read
Getting Paid for Work Done and not for hours spent- Is it possible?
Long jazzy and jargonized emails are a routine in corporate world communicating just two things. First, time spent on composing them....
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Jaspal Kahlon
Jan 11, 20102 min read
Learning to use “Bandwidth Choked”
My friend coined a term called “Corporate Slave” when he saw me coming late from office in Mumbai and working during weekends. This...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Dec 20, 20092 min read
Climate change negotiations at Copenhagen and fight over a branch of a tree in India- a link
Sunday Morning (Dec. 13 2009), I was sipping black tea surfing over the headlines on Copenhagen meet when I overhear an altercation....
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Jaspal Kahlon
Dec 5, 20092 min read
Law of attraction and Equilibrium in Life- What Tiger Woods experienced?
While I have always held a view that there is nothing called “RIGHT” or “WRONG” in this world. Bring in the notion of “ETHICS” and...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Nov 28, 20092 min read
Sequel to Leveraging lives for fulfillment- Role of Debt in a common man’s life
The fresh developments over last couple of days are pointing to the fact that the credit crisis (note the shift in my approach of not...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Nov 22, 20091 min read
Key developments to watch out for: Hershey’s counter bid for Cadbury and repercussions of appreciati
One: Hershey Co. is lining up USD 17 billion funding from Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase to make a counter bid for Cadbury. Kraft...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Oct 11, 20092 min read
Remembering SID in Me
Wake Up Sid is one more successful production focused on today’s young. Perfect description of today’s youth- no time table in life,...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Sep 12, 20091 min read
Learnings from Ghalib- a ghazal interpreted..
इबन-ए मरयम हुआ करे कोईमेरे दुख की दवा करे कोई I will be convinced there is god if he cures my pain of love शर`-ओ-आईन पर मदार सही ऐसे...
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Jaspal Kahlon
Aug 31, 20091 min read
Is there any science behind the EBITDA "multiplier" in business valuations?- My Response
Above query the EBITDA multiplier was posted by Steve Swann on Financial Analysts and Modelers group on Linkedin. I consider it to be...
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