While starting up, resources are typically scarce and it’s important to guard them and stop leakages or losses.
Parker on the boat may be a better option. When the breaching whale appeared at night and upturned Pi’s raft throwing all his supplies to the water, Pi realized, living with Mr. At that moment, it looked like the wise thing to do, without taking into consideration greater dangers, still unknown to him. When Pi found Richard Parker on the life boat, he got scared and threw all the supplies in the lifeboat to a makeshift raft and tied it to the life boat and decided to shift to the raft. In life also, continuous planning for different stages of your life, and not only during the difficult days, when resources are low, will help you live a good life. Probably, the most important resource for an entrepreneur is money and in the beginning, when income is low and uncertain, an entrepreneur needs to make sure, the money (resources) lasts till revenues kick in or next round of funding (help) comes in the choppy waters of entrepreneurial journey. It’s important to keep it handy and work according to the plan and of course, keep referring to it, when you’re in doubt and monitor progress as you go along. If you’re an entrepreneur, think of the handbook as your business plan. Fortunately, he found a handbook to help him plan for the time on the lifeboat. When Pi was thrown into the Sea on the lifeboat with limited stock of resources after his ship capsized, he had to make a plan to survive the uncertain and indeterminate period in the harsh seas. Choosing a good brand name could be your first step towards creating a successful brand.ģ.
#LIFE OF PIE MESSAGE MOVIE#
Come to think of it, if the book or movie title was ‘Life Of Piscine Molitor’, it may not have worked that well. So, if you inherit an unimaginative or not so great brand name, starting rebranding exercise early as Pi did really helps. And, as Pi Patel learnt it the hard way, rebranding can be a difficult and often expensive exercise. So, if you have to work on creating a new brand name of changing your existing brand name for that matter, work on telling a good story which captures the imagination of the audience. Associating a story with the name made it work even better for him. So, he decided to remember the value of Pi expressed in several hundred decimal places to drive home the point. At first, he tried to work on individuals, and later started addressing groups about his name being derived from the Greek letter Pi which is ratio of a circle’s circumference by diameter. He realized early, that his name can cause him more pain, going ahead in life. Pi had to work hard on a rebranding exercise. This name obviously caused him lot of anguish as everyone started making fun of his name at school and outside. Pi Patel was born with the name Piscina Molitor Patel, given by his Uncle after a swimming pool in France. Pursuing divergent and often energy sapping paths lead to quick burnouts and eventual disillusionment with the whole process. In early days, when an entrepreneur is trying to establish his business, it’s important to prioritize and decide on whether you’re targeting SME’s or Large Enterprises or you’re operating in B2B or B2C segment for the matter. As with faith and advisors in life, entrepreneurs must be careful in choosing their business model and target group. Listening to all sorts of advice will harm your chances and cause delay in reaching your end goal. As an entrepreneur, it’s also important to choose your mentors, guides wisely. It’s difficult to follow different paths at the same time, as many of them are conflicting in nature and often create confusion and make it difficult to stay focused and at times, lead to wastage of crucial resources. His words hold true, not only for religion, but are also valid for our daily life and business. Pi’s father Santosh Patel told this to Pi at the dining table, when he was getting inquisitive about different religions and wanted to follow all of them at the same time. If you believe in everything, you will end up not believing in anything at all There are also some great lessons in life and business, that one can learn from Life Of Pi. A captivating story with many dimensions and visually stunning, the movie leaves you engrossed till the end and has also got high ratings from both the critics and audience.
It’s a story of the protagonist Pi’s magical journey on a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a Royal Bengal Tiger for company and in the process discovering himself, faith and God. Yann Martel’s Booker Prize winning book, Life of Pi has been transformed beautifully into celluloid by Ang Lee of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain fame.