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What Makes News

24 Thursday Sep 2009

Posted by Prem Rao in Organisations

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If the placement of headlines in the  newspapers these days are anything to go by, people like me- and I hope there are many- will be amazed at the misplaced priorities.

Today’s DNA- by the way, I ordinarily really like this paper- has an article on the first page which speaks of India’s cricket coach, Gary Kirsten exhorting his players that sex helps performance on the field. Tucked in much later in the paper is a news item that shocked me.

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“Can Management Gurus Manage?”

31 Saturday May 2008

Posted by Prem Rao in A Step A Day

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A Step A Day, Industrial relations, people management

Read T T Ram Mohan’s interesting article in the Economic Times. It’s called ” Can Management Gurus Manage?”.

Its amusing to think that the Professor of Organizational Behaviour is going through a major crisis in his personal life and that the Professor of Economics is virtually broke. This reminds me of a story.

Many years ago when I was studying at the XLRI, Jamshedpur, the construction workers carrying out building work on campus  went on strike.

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