Who would have imagined a digital retouching in process, twenty-five years ago (1987)? Yeah, you read it right! This video (2:48), takes us through a quick digital retouching process. If our knowledge serves us right, that’s some three years before Photoshop 1.0 was introduced. Some technology, eh?

With 2012, we have moved another year ahead in time. Every new year brings with itself, new wishes, hopes, aspirations and more. One of the key aspiration, if I may talk on behalf of many I know, is to own an office which inspires one to work, in a relaxed and efficient environment. An office that spells less of boredom and scores high on excitement. A working space which inspires us to innovate beyond the ordinary. Google does that beautifully!

There were things we planned to start and some of them we did, some of them we didn’t. Some started, some stopped somewhere along the way. I am sure this happened to one and all, we accept it or otherwise! So how does it all matter you may say?

Justin’s not lucky and he didn’t become an ‘overnight celebrity’ by fluke. I’m myself guilty of putting him in that category, till I came across his movie recently. These are some entrepreneurial lessons that can be learnt from him.

To call him the ‘Father of Modern Day Technology’ would be no exaggeration. His passion, determination, perseverance, stubbornness, belief and courage, made him a visionary, a leader, a game-changer. His dream to change the world has been achieved by many folds.

Brands are about products and services. True. Truer is the fact that brands are about the feelings and emotions the products or services invoke in the customer. These emotions are 20% a result of what the brand talks about and 80% the experience at the brand touch points.

Staff is an equal stake holder in brand building and they affect a customer’s brand experience as much as any advertising campaign. So can you encourage a workforce to behave “on brand”?

Internal branding has the answer.