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To my mind, these are the three steps in a successful project.    In many countries like India, we have excellent planning. Average implementation. And a poor follow-up. The poor follow-up reflects on the poor implementation. The result is below-average performance in many of the...

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IANS 25 August 2021
The Madras High Court on Wednesday struck down 10 per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) for admission to medical and dental seats in All India Quota (AIQ) seats surrendered by the Tamil Nadu government, as this breaches the 50 per cent cap set by the Supreme...

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My partner and I had been manning our forex dealing room for a few months with little success when a game-changer arrived – the Reuters screen.    Hitherto, we had no way of knowing what the international exchange rates were, except by contacting an overseas dealing room through the...

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IANS 11 August 2021
The Ministry of Education has offered a fresh opportunity to all those students who could not register themselves for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main till now. All such students can now register themselves for the exam on Wednesday. Earlier, the registration process had been...

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It was the first day of work for me as a medical representative (MR) and I began with the first doctor on the list given to me. For me, it was a tense interview—my first. When I was going to my second, I met another MR on the road.    He said hello. He introduced himself as Joe and...

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Michael Isitt, the manager of the Bombay branch (sorry, ancient past – ‘Mumbai’ had not arrived yet), posed a problem for the customers of my bank.    “Is it I-sit or Is-it?” They would ask. Actually it was “Eye-zit.”   I was a junior officer in charge of remittances at...

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In the years gone by, we just greeted our neighbours and others we met on the road with a ‘Good morning’ or a ‘Good evening’ as may be appropriate for the time of day. Everyone said this and moved on.    Over a period, this greeting often transformed to ‘How are you doing?’ One is...

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Many of us in the corporate world would have been taught, through reading and through lectures that jealousy and envy, kill those who feel jealous – rather than those who are the target of the jealousy. Therefore, most mature individuals, who believe in spirituality and in humanity, will try...

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The British Raj had ended nearly three decades ago, but Douglas Kenneth Archibald White had kept the Imperial torch burning. He was the manager of our Delhi branch, where profit was not of much importance, but “pucca”ness was.     The previous year the branch had indeed reported a...

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There are times in life, when it pays to pretend ignorance. When you pretend to know not – but you do know!  Especially when it comes to managing your boss – whether in the world of commerce or in politics.   Here are nine basic rules which have always helped people to survive and to...

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This (final) narrative about T is not one I have witnessed at first hand, unlike all the preceding ones. Nevertheless, I have every reason to believe that it is true.   T got an offer that he just could not refuse, that of the chief executive (CEO) of a major bank in a neighbouring...

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One of the articles that created a great impact on me in my early management years was ‘The judgement of Hermes’ – written by a person I admired greatly from a distance, although I never met him. It was Gaby Mendoza, former chairman of the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, and to my...

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it favours in-person Chartered Accountant (CA) exams and refrained from passing any direction to postpone the schedule commencing on July 5.   A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said students with Covid should get opt-out option. The bench...

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In August each year, at the start of the annual budget exercise, treasury department notified branches of the base interest rate they were to use for deposits and loans when preparing the budget. Since the local currency was pegged to the US dollar the dollar interest rate was the...

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How do people who have been on a pedestal for short or long periods of time, handle the fall from their powerful positions? This could be in any area of life – whether the commercial world, or political or professional. It is interesting to see how they feel lost, or live in the past, or...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) formula for the assessment of Class 12 students.   The CBSE, in an affidavit, informed a bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and comprising Justice Dinesh Maheshwari that the performance of the...

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The Supreme Court on Friday ordered postponement of AIIMS INI CET Examination, 2021, scheduled on June 16, by one month.   A bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and M R Shah said that considering many of the candidates intending to take the exam are on Covid duty and in remote...

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K Joseph was a middle-aged, God-fearing, peace-loving and quiet character. He was the 'wouldn’t hurt a fly' type of chap, and I doubt he had ever raised his voice to anyone in all his life. He was a credit officer in one of our larger branches.   Joseph yelling at a customer?...

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On expected lines, the Maharashtra government on Thursday too decided to cancel the HSC (Class 12) board exams for 2021 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic second wave, Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad announced.   The move came a day after a cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday said, it is happy that the board exams have been cancelled and emphasized that the interest of students will be protected, as it asked the Centre to submit the objective criteria to assess Class XII students in two weeks.   At the beginning of the...

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