Profit with Purpose
The Second Golden Yardstick Of Zizira - Creating A Culture Of Excellence
Whether a leader or a team member, everyone should have the same fire in the belly, for pursuit of excellence. A clear understanding of the organization’s vision and purpose will be the main driving force for any team member to be committed towards creating excellence, to achieve their organization’s vision.
Story of Zizira - Why the ‘Discovery’ Theme?
This series of posts – called the ‘Story of Zizira’ are extracted from my 2016 year-end notes covering the journey so far about Zizira, our one-year-old venture. What we have covered so far: Background Why Chillibreeze diversified and that too into agricultural products? Why we need to open markets for Meghalaya farmer
Can we Create an Online Farmers Market in Meghalaya?
It was a routine day for the Zizira explorers – one team busy writing up reports on visits, another planning on the next field visits when a questi...
A Pune Girl Finds Her Purpose in Meghalaya
A Pune Girl Finds Her Purpose in Meghalaya
I am Mrunmayi, originally from Pune and now living in Shillong, Meghalaya.
If you are a Zizira customer,...
7 Habits to Happy Healthy Ageing
No matter what your age, if you desire graceful ageing you can do so by cultivating certain habits into your lifestyle. These golden habits are simple, tried and tested practices in most indigenous societies who never seemed to age the way people do in modern societies. Here’s 7 of them for you!
The Chicken Wagon - A Zizira Venture
Zizira launches a Fried Chicken Outlet
Did you know that Zizira had a fried chicken food truck? If you are from Shillong, you may well have heard a...
Linking Food Startups to Govt. Schemes & Markets
Shillong hosted a National Conference on ‘Linking Food Startups and SMEs in Food Processing to Govt. Schemes and Markets’ – the important last mile...
The First Golden Yardstick of our Organization
“I am here for a purpose”. We have all said this one time or another after joining Zizira. But, here’s the rub. How clearly do we know the meaning of our purpose and stand by it?
Pioneering a Food Business That Makes A Difference To Farmers
A few days ago, I shared a note with the Zizira team on Yammer, an internal communication platform, with my insights and musings on Zizira. I laid ...
Story of Zizira – Team Needs to be Humble, Hungry and Smart
In the last post, I talked about our learnings from looking at others and had ended the piece with musings of how we have chosen a long-term strate...
Story of Zizira – Learnings From Others
In my previous post, I had mentioned two websites – Pepper Joe and Zara that gave us insights. Let me tell you a little about them and how their st...
Story of Zizira - More on Product Selection Criteria
After a round of testing the market, a decision we took was that Zizira would make products in small batches. Remember I had shared with you the pr...