One would have seen social activists always talking about how there is an acute disproportionation of wealth among the population and how the rich own the majority of people’s wealth proportion and how they get richer by the day. We can see the shadow of this concept in our social networks too, as the people…
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Demystifying Trends Using Social Network Analysis
In this new era of the internet, no one is untouched by social media and its alluring trends. The spread of these trends in almost every profile in the span of a day or two makes one wonder how it is possible. One might have seen a tweet spreading like a wildfire all across Twitter…
The Sorrows of Young Werther: Social contagion theory and social network analysis
Recently I facilitated a workshop, face to face, after almost a year. We did this in a nice offsite location and many people in the leadership team were lockdown joiners! The organisation is going through a massive change and interestingly many were not aware of the compelling change story, the possibilities and real intent behind…
Dealing with crisis: What organisations could learn from Kerala
These days we hear a lot about the Kerala model and how Kerala is successful in flattening the curve of COVID-19. International news media has praised Kerala and Kerala leaders, the chief minister and the health minister who are leading a lot of initiatives to fight the COVID-19. At the same time, I feel we are…
How faith spreads COVID-19
Religion and religious gatherings have taken the centre stage of criticisms during the COVID-19 pandemic for their role in the mass spread of the virus. Concerns over religious festivals and religious gatherings that came about during the time of social distancing advised by almost all governments across the world are perfectly understandable. But what is…
COVID-19, social network analysis and lessons from South Korea
Stanley Milgram was a Prof in Harvard who did an interesting experiment. Milgram choose a stock broker in Boston and then he contacted 296 volunteers, one third of them were from Boston and rest from Omaha, Nebraska that is more than 1400 Kilometers away from Boston. Each of the 296 volunteers received a booklet that…