Friday, June 30, 2006

Enter The New Age CEO : Snippety Snip

They attribute "Sea Change" to refer to something which has changed drastically. Nowadays Companies go for a "CEO Change" to get a sea change. Ailing companies go for a CEO change to turn around things and get back in Business. Enron CEO was hailed as a super CEO and admired until the accounting scandals rocked the Company to its foundations. in Enron's case, their was little else a new CEO could do when a company is screwed that badly.

When HP had a new CEO some time back, fears of cost cutting started doing the newsgroup rounds. After all Mark Hurd had the reputation of turning things around at NCR Corporation by cutting costs.
Such CEO succession stories always spell doom for Employees of non-profit making divisions.

SONY the electronics giant had a CEO Change. Howard Stringer, the new man incharge went about doing the same. he eliminated some age-old practices @ SONY to identify the bleeding and plug the same.
Does the new Age CEO start with an Axe when he assumes his responsibilities.
the case of MOTOROLA CEO Ed Zander is a study in contrast.

He came up with the Moto RAZR which turned around things at the ailing Communications equipnment maker. RAZR has been such a Hit, that Motorola is back in Business.

That reminds me of Ed Zanders previous tenure at Sun Microsystems. Sun did have a series of retrenchments but could never turn around as much as its hey days.

Why could Ed not accomplish the same @ Sun ?.
Maybe motorola gave him the opportunity to use his creative genius.

the New Age CEO is sure in the hot-seat and cost cutting is one helluva enticing option.
But like Ed Zander showed its not the only one to turn around things.

~P

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Fall in Moral Standards ?

Fall in Moral Standards in India ?

  • The Congress election campaign of Sonia Gandhi had an item number.
  • The recent Mika-Rakhi Sawant episode.
  • Rahul Mahajan's drug abuse.

Who's to blame ?

maybe shape of things to come? with the rich-poor divide widening, such Binges bordering on In-Sanity are bound to increase.

Some good news on the international Arena for India. Shashi Tharoor is nominated for UN Secretary General post by govt of india. He is a very suave candidate.

I guess Pakistan is taking note of this strong Indian candidature@UN. They must be already plotting to get some men planted in the UN body.( well that way, pakis get one more place to harp about cashmere)

ALOHA!

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

While I was Out !

While I was out of Bangalore last 3 months(ie., kohreah)...

Bangalore for the most part has changed for the better!!!

1. There is a Signal opposite LIFESTYLE on Airport Road. Earlier it used to have a Free Right Turn :(

2. Roads are less bumpy from Girinagar to old Madras road.

3. I see MORE people near Garuda Mall :) Bangalore is getting crowded :-(.

4. Not many new faces in SISO. In Fact some faces have vanished(resigned) from SISO.

5. BagMane Tech Park is donning a new look with better Roads and less dust :).

6. Samsung India introduced Sodexho Coupons. Food provided is better than Nandini caterers food.

7. Table Tennis (ping pong) room is provided on ground floor. Sadly it appears to be a Neglected room with no cleaning and NO proper A/C facility.

8. SISO Bus Facility is better. Huge TV is put up @ the Entrance.
But what a waste it is it can atleast show BBC/CNN/NDTV for folks waiting in the Lobby. Visitors will now notice the Widescreen wastage :-)

9. The office interiors have been spruced up. BUT...my cube has been CuebJacked by a different team member!!!,


ALOHA!

Monday, June 12, 2006

Ek Aur Kahani

I was watching DoorDarshan after a long time and it sure did conjure up old memories. The sequel to Ek Kahani was a very interesting story. I hope somebody shares all the videos of the episodes of Ek Kahani. Need to check Torrents for it :).

TubeWatch is sure gettin exciting in India.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Yellow Journalism to the Rescue!

The Recent incidents in Indian Politiks and media are a Cocktail of Lessons for any mature Democratic Setup.

1. The Central Government brought in a Law for a Person to hold 2 (profitable) posts at the same time. Who cares about un-employment. The government showed its have "Power will Exploit" attitude.

2. Reservations were brought into to favour a class of people who were deemed backward class a whole 52 years back!. The Minister in charge responded to allegations saying that there is no statistical basis but just a "NEED" which the Govt sees fit.
Ends really Justify the means, ain't it ?
Votes can be got by such scrupulous means only, by dividing society and depriving future genre of a sense of Equality and Freedom to Education and Employment.

3. Yellow Journalism to he rescue. Last but not the least, I feel the Govt made use of a Family Nightmare in the Late Pramod Mahajan's Family to killfile the current misgivings and current impasse over its decisions. I feel it Muscled all National TV and print media into showing the Rahul Mahajan issue. None of the forms of Media showed anything related to Reservations and or the Presidents returning of the Bill of Rights amendment etc.

It appears the Country is in a state of Banana Republic with the Print and TV Media being on a Holiday and reporting only issues which the Govt in power wants it to report.
People protesting for Individual/Citizen Rights are being neglected.

Really shoddy state of Affairs in India.
Its sure is a bad omen for the World's Largest Democracy.

Well don't complain! chances are Nobodys Listening.
Any Mature Democratic developing Country should have some ways to tackle such one-sided , Fascist powers in Government Machinery. Yeah...My pointers are to Nepal which can take a cue from our fumbling constituitional Setup.

~P

Friday, June 09, 2006

B2B

Hello Bangalore!
I am back from Koreah, the land of the rising Sun.
Had a hectic travel itinerary. But in the end I got to see Neha Dhupia, the bollywood heroine, She was travelling on the same fight from Mumbai to Bangalore. She was looking radiant. But her boy friend was looking a bit jaded.

Now need to get back to some important chores which are left pending from a long time now.

Btw. the opening World cup match was a stunner. The Germans and the Costa RIcans played exciting Football. and as usual the Best Team got to win in the end.

Germany;s performance I feel has improved in its mid field area.