'Given who we had in the past, Parrikar is a gem of wisdom'

'It is just that we have our standards so low that anybody looks good now.' 'His sort of extremely terminological inexactitude is a serious problem. He doesn't seem to understand the difference......

The nuclear liability bill needs a rethink

There is an urgent need for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the current liability regime besides a high-powered trans-disciplinary independent experts committee to study the issue, says......

What B-schools need to teach

I worked for another organisation for a couple of years after graduating from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, before I branched out on my own.I firmly believe that the conceptual......

Do BPO jobs hold a future?

The recent US federal law against outsourcing American support services to foreign shores has invited a series of protests from sources in the Indian government and the Indian corporate sector.......

Why CEOs need to track bad news

Just when there seem to be no leviathans left standing in the boardroom, management guru Jim Collins has listed the 10 greatest CEOs of all time (Fortune, July 21, 2003).As the author of Built to......

Of PSU banks and aging staff

Santosh Rane (name changed) comes to office in his best formal clothes these days.He even wears a tie. In his late forties, Rane has recently been promoted to the junior management grade.In the......