November 14, 2009 • 9:04 pm 0
It was only the second meeting of the Board of the $ 43 billion-PepsiCo outside the US. CEO Indira Nooyi chose to have the meeting at Mumbai, India. Guess who spoke to this distinguished Board which includes the Chairman & CEO of Novartis and the President & CEO of Colgate-Palmolive?
Filed under: Organisations, People , Mumbai's dabbawalas
October 31, 2009 • 8:12 am 0
Making the news once more, is Prof. C.K.Prahalad, who was voted the world’s most influential management thinker recently. Prof. Prahalad has this honour for the second time in a row.
Filed under: People , Management, Prof C K Prahalad
October 16, 2009 • 7:43 am 0
It’s well known that we are at our creative best when we are young. The older we get, the less creative we become. It was nice to see that a creative idea of a 15 year old girl from India, Sarojini Mahajan, has been picked up by Stanford University.
Filed under: People , creativity, IGNITE, NIF, Stanford University
October 12, 2009 • 8:23 am 0
My heart warms when I hear stories of people who have made it big by following their natural talents and passion. Here’s one in the New York Times by Amy Wallace, I am sure you will like: It’s the story of 40 year old Cesar Millan- the Los Angeles based “Dog Whisperer”. Millan, an immigrant from Mexico, has over the years become an indispensable trainer and coach to the dogs of America’s rich and famous.
Filed under: People, Trends , assertiveness, Cesar Millan
September 14, 2009 • 7:05 am 0
India stands transformed in many ways from the times when I grew up here as a kid. The present generation in India might actually be astonished to know that in the 1950s and 1960s, India was perpetually short on food grains. Starvation and hunger were real threats and many lost their lives.
Filed under: People , Dr Norman Borlaug, Green Revolution, Indian Economy
September 8, 2009 • 8:07 am 0
Cheers to young Pankaj Advani of Bangalore for winning the World Professional Billiards Championship for the first time. This is another terrific achievement for the 24 year old. The fact that his victory was over the defending champion, Mike Russell made the win that much more special.
Filed under: People, Sports , Billiards, Indian Youth, Pankaj Advani, Young Achievers
August 14, 2009 • 7:04 pm 0
The world is beset with swine flu! It has hit India and has the potential to disrupt organisations and the economy- more by the panic it creates rather than by the numbers who might actually succumb to it- however morbid that might sound.
Reports just out indicate that in the US about 0.6 % of those afflicted by swine flu have died with the corresponding figure for Europe being 0.1 %.
Just about anyone can get swine flu especially in large cities where the incidence seems to be much higher. It spreads largely by people to people contact. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: People , Executive Health, swine flu
July 26, 2009 • 3:20 pm 0
For many of my generation, David Ogilvy was the last word in advertising. He was quite easily the biggest advertising guru of his time. Mr. Ogilvy has been dead for over a decade now, so I was very interested to see an article by Patricia Sellars in Fortune about David Ogilvy’s best advice for business.
Filed under: People , advertising, David Ogilvy, executive leadership
July 24, 2009 • 7:10 pm 0
Many raised their eye brows when Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro announced about a year ago that the Indian IT giant would henceforth have not one but two CEOs. Has the experiement worked? So it seems from this interview with Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani in the Economic Times. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Organisations, People , executive leadership, Wipro
June 21, 2009 • 2:14 pm 1
Cricket fans in India are in the dumps. India, supposedly one of the hot contendors to win the ICC Twenty20 World Championship were eliminated without entering the semi-finals. Today even as we watch the finals between two teams -Sri Lanka and Pakistan-who deserved to be there more than the Indians did, we can’t help asking ourselves: What went wrong?
Filed under: People, Sports , conflict of interest, K.Srikkanth, N. Srinivasan
