Eastman Kodak, or simply Kodak to you and me has an interesting tale of how its name came be. George Eastman the founder was very fond of the letter K, so much so that he is quoted as saying ‘it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter’. Bizarre but there we go. He asked his mother to come up with a name for his company with the requirements that the name should be short, impossible to mispronounce and bear no resemblance to anything else so its products would only ever be associated with its name. She sat down with an ...
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Earlier this year I set out my goals for 2012. Three very simple goals but with real meaning behind them. You can read the complete list and why I decided to make this years goals public here: Dee Kumar’s Challenge. If you have read it, you know exactly why I failed miserably in 2011. Not due to lack of effort, but simply putting all my efforts into other successful projects and totally forgetting what I had originally set out to do. I learnt many lessons from 2011 and put them in this article which forms the basis of today’s post: ...
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