Dynamic – Being prepared
In changing and unsettling times, dynamic leadership takes centrestage, in business and society. What does that mean and how many leaders can be truly dynamic?
Category: Management & Innovation
Management & Innovation
MDI – Managers’ Decision Index
There are many known and used measures of performance of workers and employees at low to mid-levels, sometimes expressed as an Index. While performance of senior level managers is critical, perhaps we can attempt developing an appropriate index.
Galileo and Formula 1 – The competitive edge of interpretation
Using Galileo’s idea of nature as a book, and drawing the corollary of reading from it, it is arguable that techniques of reading (taught in many universities) might offer more promising results rather than the traditional models and frameworks used in businesses. Taking a leaf out of Formula 1 racing, we take an exploratory look
The quintessential manager
The business media has reported that some companies are showing a preference for specific skills as against MBAs.
Goodbye, core competence
Sajjan Jindal’s decision to enter the EV market is the immediate context to emphasise the irrelevance of intellectual cobwebs such as the idea of core competence. In a world abundant with multiple opportunities, within the same or different lines of businesses, a different set of questions need to be asked.
Bonuses in parenting
Some large tech companies have recently created a holding company separate from their operating companies such as Alphabet and Google, among others. Reliance Industries Limited has opted for a route where the operating company functions as a holding company. Neither is an uncommon strategy; how businesses and the investing environment evolve and not corporate control influence success or otherwise
Valuations
SoftBank recently unveiled a $23 billion quarterly net loss, its biggest ever, as a market sell-off upended tech stocks and shredded valuations at its sprawling Vision Fund unit. The pain in the April-June quarter comes fresh after the closely watched Vision Fund posted a record $26 billion loss in May, when rising interest rates and political instability disrupted global markets, and could test investor willingness to stomach further big losses.
The masked debate – net neutrality
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. So they say. Yet, I have decided to be a fool and revisit the contentious debate over net neutrality, which was disguised as a battle for democracy and equality when it was in fact a battle between different businesses. There is a context to this revisiting – the dawn of 5G and the investments made by telecom companies in acquiring spectrum. In the interest of full disclosure, I have no business interest in this matter!
Gullible, by choice
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. This observation, attributed to Albert Einstein, has more than a ring of truth when it comes to the way people and the media continue to see ‘AI’ everywhere, which has become a catch all phrase.
Small is important
Often, it becomes necessary to refocus when things have moved far too much in one direction. This short article attempts to do so by pointing out how small changes are capable of making big impact in certain businesses at a time when there is increasing fascination with the grandiose.
The physical transformation
Business is business, be it digital or physical. And you have to do whatever you have to, to ensure its success. Getting carried away by phraseology doesn’t help
An unequal attention: the questionable continued use of averages
The (intermittent) debate over inequalities of income and wealth (and all that follows) should warn us the pitfalls of using averages such as GDP per capita but the world continues to do so. And even traditional measures of inequality. Misleading ‘insights’ may be drawn from ‘movements’ in averages
