Chennai battling with Hyderabad to claim the IPL title marks the end of week that also had Nipah virus havoc at Kerala, politics at Karnataka, firing on agitating workers at Tamil Nadu and the turmoil in personal life and business. All of it had one thing in common – South India! Tumultuous. [Read More…]
The political drama at Karnataka has taken a decisive turn with BSY resigning. Atleast in a short run. It took Supreme Court to help store some sanity in an otherwise insane environment. Indeed, someone once said it so correctly. Politics is too important thing to be left to politicians! [Read More…]
This piece is inspired by my friend Chandrabhan Singh’s beautifully composed blog ‘Don’t blame the CEO, he is just a salesman!!!’
Indeed, in these challenging times for businesses, the CEO very often remains a mere salesman for the Company. The CEO keeps doing the balancing act instead of steering the team to a bold new future through his/her vision and style of work. Most of them end up addressing urgent and critical issues when they should be focused on what is important. [Read More…]
Forget Cricket, the one game India is likely to play over next one year is politics! The elections for Karnataka Assembly are on 12 May and the fate will be clear by next Monday, 15 May. The game is likely to begin next then and it will be on for one year. Really long. The question to ask is whether India can afford such long recesses from her core agenda of growth. Or that the businesses have mastered the art of staying decoupled from the political heat and dust. As I write this, the political rhetoric by both contending parties seem to be focused on running each other down with ano specific individual attribute as a promise. This is sad for the people of Karnataka. And if this becomes the flavour in parliament elections next year, it will be sad for the nation. [Read More…]
The founder and CEO of world’s largest investment firm recently wrote to all CEOs of their invested companies to also address challenges of everyone among their stakeholders besides ensuring profits. The awareness that companies need to do more than just make profits is welcome. The focus needs to move to enhancing stakeholder value from a mere shareholder value. In an era where many of the world’s large corporates are facing trust-deficits, some of the socialist ideals are coming back in vogue. True to the prophecy made by Karl Marx in his theory of dialectical materialism, the thesis and anti-thesis are colliding again. The synthesis from this collision will be a new world order. Hopefully. [Read More…]