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CHEAP BIRDS IN THE AIR8/28/2018 Cheap airlines are getting better and better.
Newer offerings in new routes. More options to choose from such as print your own tickets, online check-in, are getting better as well. This is very good for fliers whose budget cannot afford the amenities and the frills of the regular airlines. The key here is providing value to the point that customers are eager to try on without sacrificing a lot of dollars for the whole experience. The safety, comfort, and overall no-frills experience are what counts at the end of the day. Beware, if you do not read the fine print, you get charge for every little thing. Little thing that we take for granted but adds costs to the operations. When did you start to think about your organization's value addition to your customers? Is it the price, comfort, peace of mind, guarantees, "the relationship," or the expertise your provide? or how about the lethal combination of these musts. In these days, standing out in the market is not being the loudest or the most noisy product or service. It is about the filling the gaps, combining the best value for your offer, and ensuring a follow-through of a great experience. Cheers
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THE INTERPRETER OF MALADIES8/22/2018 AUTHOR Our Guest Author is Raj Prasanta, the Chief Editor of Assam Newspaper in India. Raj is a Rotary Peace Scholar and a Graduate of the Certificate in Peace and Conflict Resolution from Chulalongkorn University, batch 18. Raj and all of us in our class honor Mr. Suthan Antony, another Peace Fellow from Sri Lanka who passed away recently. He has devoted his life for community peacebuilding efforts and will be missed by his family, friends, community, and Rotary Peace Fellows. Raj wrote this article in 2015 while we are studying for the Peace fellowship. Suthan Anthony. Thirty-six years of age. As a child, he said, he was very diffident, so much so that he was embarrassed whenever he had to talk to someone. Now Anthony thinks the ups and down that he has gone through so far have made him confident to take on life, or face it as it comes. Over the years, Anthony has shaped his personality and mental make-up in such a way as to be able to tackle any adversity of life. At present my batch mate in the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Suthan Anthony is a Sinhalese and comes from Battikalowa in south-west Sri Lanka. Like me, he never had to sit for oral and written examination to get the Fellowship to come to the University, but was selected for the same through online test conducted by the Illinois-based headquarters of the Rotary Foundation. In fact, Anthony could not have sat for the examination in Sri Lanka because he is a suspect in the eyes of the political establishment there. Being a Tamil and a Catholic Christian has made the matter further worse for him, because in Buddhist majority Sri Lanka, a kind of insecurity always haunts the country's minority communities. It is quite possible that had the Sri Lankan government known about his applying for a Fellowship of a foreign university, it would not have stopped short of putting impediments at his attempt to get Fellowship of a foreign university, at least that is what he thinks. (To be continued...)
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THE AIR WE BREATHE8/21/2018 These days, Alberta, BC, and some parts of Saskatchewan have an air quality warning. 600 BC forest fires and counting have left Western Canada literally covered with smoke. In Calgary, the air quality warning hit to 10 ( 10 being the highest).
Air is a precious element of life and is taken for granted. Unlike water, air is all around us but invisible. But where there is smoke, you can see, feel, taste, smell, and experience the air that is not good for you. What kind of air are you breathing these days? Is it coming from the smoky past of failures, disappointments, and frustrations? Or are you breathing fresh air-new beginnings, new possibilities that await you? Are you sharing air with the people that are inhaling their own exhaust? Better not |
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