Entrepreneur Harsh Mariwala talks survival techniques for businesses Many a times, we have good employees working closely with us who perform exceedingly well but as the business becomes complex, things become bigger, they start becoming less and less relevant. Feeling guilty, we think we should be loyal to them. But, especially at the middle and senior...
Hon. Rtn. Ajay Piramal shares his personal experience of fighting challenges I WANT TO BEGIN WITH an experience that all of us have had, regularly, that is taking a flight. When you take a flight, you sit on your seat and what happens during take-off and landing is that the pilot is in control. You may find...
RCB conferred the Social Service Award to Pratibha Pai and the Sohrab Godrej Award for Science and Technology to Dr. Laxman Singh Rathore last Tuesday Pratibha Pai Many Rotarians might be aware that I was involved, in my own way, in the launch of your flagship education programme Bhavishya Yaan. My BMS students of HR College were the...
Ajit Ranade, Group Executive President and Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group casts an eye on the way ahead for the Indian economy Our objective has always been to have inclusive growth. But before inclusive growth you need to have economic growth, the expansion of opportunity, the expansion of income, revenues and profits. So, I am especially happy...
As DG Harjit Singh Talwar congratulated the Rotary Club of Bombay for a job well done these past years and outlined the path ahead, an air of pride and determination dominated RCB’s Tuesday meeting last week AT THE OUTSET let me congratulate and compliment all the Past Presidents of this Club, 90 years’ service to the community,...
Even as India and the world celebrate the quick lockdown effected upon 1.3 bn people in the world’s largest democracy, P SAINATH throws light upon a total miscarriage of justicebillion On May 17th, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an extremely strict curfew order which said: ‘Movement of individuals is strictly prohibited between 7 pm and...
PADMAJA RUPAREL, co-founder, Indian Angel Network, talks start-ups, disruption and how to harness their energy to drive India’s growth What have start-up and innovation done for this country? First, let’s look at what India was before colonization: it contributed to 25 per cent of the world’s GDP in the 1700s, almost the same as China at...
RICHARD REKHY talks about business continuity and how to reinvent the future Planet Earth is closed. The global economic impact has been tremendous. There are four to five impacts of Covid-19. First, is Covid itself. Second is the oil crisis that hit us immediately on the back of Covid-19. Third is the health impact due to...
Rtn. (Dr.) Aashish Contractor provides an overview of where we are today with COVID19 ACCORDING to the official data from the Ministry of Health, we have 21000 active cases and we have 934 deaths as of April 28th, 2020, 8 am. The curve shows a slight upsurge in case of India, but considering how populous we...
And the life lessons I learned: entrepreneur Aditya Gupta at last Tuesday’s meeting ONE night, at the Everest base camp, we started climbing higher. One typically started at around 1 o’clock in the night and climbed for about three hours into the Khumbu Icefall which is one of the most dangerous parts of Everest. There is...
Shapers Of Business Institutions is a book series that explores the shaping of Indian businesses that have withstood the test of time to become institutions in their own right. Co-author R GOPALAKRISHNAN shares his key findings. 1. People relations HR is the least celebrated function in many companies but it comes right on top of the shapers...
Rtn. Shariq Contractor talks about government policies during the Covid-19 lockdown. There are many changes that have been brought in during the Covid-19 lockdown. The first that was announced recently was that the due date of filing returns has been extended to June 30th. This has been postponed not only with reference to Income Tax but...