Harry Potter and the order of MARKETING!

The much awaited and secretly guarded book releases today. No one has even sneak preview in what is on the book. With presales order of the book crossing all the records at amazon and other bookshops, I am sure publisher and rowling will rake in a lot of moolahs. I just hope it is worth all the wait.

If somebody wanted to give me a gift and could not figure out what, then he knows now what he should get

Abilene Paradox

A sunny afternoon, a family playing cards on a terrace. One of them thinks they should move -- not that he cares, on the contrary, but he thinks the others want to -- so he proposes a trip to Abilene. No fun, hot, bad food. Back home one of them admits that he had preferred to stay home. Everybody would have liked that, only they did not admit to it when it was still time to enjoy the afternoon.

When groups blunder into the Abilene Paradox they take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purposes of what they try to accomplish. It is a symptom of the inability to manage agreement -- not the inability to manage conflict. ..

All of us have been in the Abilene Paradox on so many occasions.

Now that i know what it is called, I will keep a watch and scream out and educate everyone about THE ABILENE PARADOX if we are getting into one. probably that will help .

Whats in the future for Oracle

While it is still not clear how the recent drama of takeover bids, rejection, lawsuits will end, I strongly believe that the consolidation will happen and soon. Erick on Business 2.0 holds a contrary view, and makes some valid points too.