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Voila,
We begin today an exciting journey into the world of business.
Have you ever wondered who invented toothbrush and tooth paste?
Have you pondered over the relative human development in different regions of the globe?
Well yes, these two questions are not at all related ( or they may be, but I am not aware of it) but these are the first questions I ask everyone I interact with.
Both these questions have deep rooted relationship to the history and philosophyof business.
Let me address the second question first.
I have always wondered how come communicaiton developed as a spoken language and in a written from in different parts of the world simultaneoulsy although no one crossed over to other settlements during this period?
How come we just talk plainly but not even a single settlement of humans sings for talking ( to quote a possible anamoly in uniformity).The questions go on.
There may be various answers to it, but one scientific answer is that human traits developed over ages and traits somehow remained same in all population of a particular age.
This reasoning proves that no matter how different people claim to be they are same at the core, have similar abilities and commit similar mistakes.I take this conclusion in business sense and will discuss more on this front in my later posts.I will try to compare and constrast business fundas across various domains which nuked and possible reasons for their failure.
Now lets understand the importance of first question.
There are so many simple and small inventions which we are least bothered about.But they continue to be the major source of business and the improvisations on these inventions continue to be the base of research and development.
History is written mostly by the victorious and businessmen who have survived, have been victorious and overshadowed the inventors.We remember the largest and first toothbrush brands but we hardly know who invented it.
These two propositons or beliefs stated above go a long way in expalining how we do business in the present day.Since this is my first post, I will not get into the details and would prefer to leave you with the basic conceptualisation above.
We will continue our discussions in the coming posts.
Till then,
Have fun