office improvement Archives • WhyNepal.com /topics/office/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:26:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 /wp-content/uploads/cropped-tumpak-whynepal-logo-e1363328285738-32x32.png office improvement Archives • WhyNepal.com /topics/office/ 32 32 The government has no business doing ‘business’ in Nepal. (Nepal Telecom fiasco) /entrepreneurship/revamp-nepal-telecom/ /entrepreneurship/revamp-nepal-telecom/#respond Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:50:18 +0000 /?p=8721

The government has no business doing ‘business’ in Nepal.

I am seriously thinking of switching from ‪Nepal‬‪ ‎Telecom‬ to an alternate. In the past 10 years, they have continuously let me down, despite my emotional attachment to Nepali owned company. Here are 3 reasons for this:

  1. Quality = Pathetic (my calls get cut, diverted, engaged randomly)
  2. Customer service = Unfriendly and unaccountable (to the point of sheer rudeness)
  3. Price = Not cheap any more (considering the amount of cut calls or low quality talks i have to put up with)

[One small context:  I cycled all the way from Kathmandu to Lumbini to highlight Lumbini and cycling and tourism in one of the hottest days of the year and I was using the internet to highlight our campaign. While Nepal Telecom’s competitor NCell had internet coverage in most of the stops we were at, Nepal Telecom had zero connectivity (even though it showed 3G connection as on ). How sad is it when you consistently over-promise and under-deliver?

A photographer friend had to send photos to various media using NCell in bhairahawa. This is embarrassing for a pioneer like Nepal Telecom to slowly go in the direction

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Advise people after saying No /entrepreneurship/advise-people-after-saying-no/ /entrepreneurship/advise-people-after-saying-no/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:35:41 +0000 /?p=5737 Wordle: whynepal advise

‘Don’t just say No. Advise them a little after you say No. That small bit of advise really helps people and as a side-effect may build relationships with them as well. Recently We had to say no, to a project that would helped a lot of people. And here is how we advised them (in an email) so that the project would succeed who-ever did it. (names changed of course).

Hello Raju, 

It was good to meet you during your Briefing process two weeks ago. Unfortunately, our firm has decided not to apply for your website project at this time because we don’t have the time and the resources to dedicate to your proposed project at this time.
As a Nepali and concerned citizens I look forward to seeing a functional website of the ‘…………. authority’ of Nepal. I realize it is extremely important to strengthen our ‘…………. authority’ to make sure we produce better leadership in Nepal. Thank you for helping such an important entity in Nepal.
We

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In the time of darkness… /thought-provoking/in-the-time-of-darkness/ /thought-provoking/in-the-time-of-darkness/#respond Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:00:27 +0000 /?p=104 In the time of darkness and gloom in Nepal, this entrepreneur is slowly turning to poetry as an escape.

“when the way the society is functioning defies common sense, when the way we live here in kathmandu baffles even us who live in it (you who live away, will be in awe at how things work here), I have found myself in loss to express myself in logical ways, in a common sensical way.”

Business and entrepreneurship mostly assumes  a fair degree of stability as a pre-requisite (or semi-stability at worst). Here I am at a loss to explain how business run and how entrepreneurs fare in a (potentially) imploding scenario.

The only thing that makes sense to me  amidst Kathmandu’s anarchy /chaos is raw poetry. Lately been doing that more and more. Maybe it is the only place i can escape to.

enjoy,

Ujw

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would a cafe for creatives or entrepreneurs work in kathmandu? /career/creative-cafe/ /career/creative-cafe/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:10:51 +0000 /?p=95 An idea roaming around:

would a cafe -lounge with  a chilled ambience / atmosphere which invites mostly entrepreneurs/musicians / artists /young passionate people, work as a viable business in Kathmandu ? would it have to be an inclusive place for exclusive type of people (the ones mentioned above ?)

am looking for a place that invities inspiration, passion and an escape away from the mundane and depressing atmosphere in Kathmandu now. Maybe I should open a cafe that does that. Will people come ?

will you come ?

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entrepreneur is a zen master in nepal ? /philosophy/entrepreneur-is-a-zen-master-in-nepal/ /philosophy/entrepreneur-is-a-zen-master-in-nepal/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:30:25 +0000 /2008/12/entrepreneur-is-a-zen-master-in-nepal/ if you are an entrepreneur in Nepal right now, then you are also a zen master too. Yes a monk ! because amidst great upheavals you have to keep your mind in focus, calm and empty of distracting thoughts. The trials and tabulations here is hostile to even seasoned entrepreneurs.

The only entrepreneurs who will come out of the present situation in nepal un-scarred are ones with monk like traits, who can stay eternally positive, be at dead present, yet drive passionately on and on, enough to ensure there is no lax in the speed of his/her entrepreneurial effort.
Keep going bunny.. keep going…

you have what it takes to be “a Zen master entrepreneur” ?

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