January 2008 - Posts - Strategy Muse

January 2008 - Posts

Kabhi "Ha! Yes!" Kabhi "Na! No!"

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
The Nano is: a) the fulfillment of Ratan Tata's promise to India (but may even spillover globally) b) the granting of a great national (or perhaps even international) wish c) likely to be seed of a great creative destruction in the automobile sector worldwide Now imagine pollution and resource depletion, traffic and parking: a) luckily we cannot...

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The Second Oldest Profession in the World?

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
The Medicine Man has come a long way. If not for him many of us would not have been alive today. But, if not for him some of the dead would have been alive today. It is hard to prevent criminals trafficking in kidneys by force. And it is harder still to prevent whiter collar criminals interpreting lacunar infarcts in the brain as 'galloping'...

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Giddy About Growth

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
1. Every atom of industrial growth probably points to another atom of environmental destruction. 2. Organic growth (adding plant capacity or adding more plants) is the long hard road trodden by the tough but perhaps it adds to more environmental destruction. 3. Inorganic growth (mergers or acquisitions) is the shorter road to ego-soothing size enhancements...

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Thou Shalt Not Conceal Thy Gains and Losses from Thy Related Parties

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
In the context of business, Related Parties are business entities with relationships of control or influence between them. One entity is able to control or influence the business decisions and therefore the activities and financial results of another entity. This phenomenon is widely prevalent in the business world and obtains from ownership of adequate...

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The Meddlesome Art of Minding Other People's Business

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
If you were training to become a CA with me you would also have been able to sense that most audit clients wished that you should not meddle in their business - in the missing warps and wefts in their jute weaves, or in the mismatched fertiliser over-issues and tea garden plot sizes, in the 'inadvertantly' over-or-under-booked income or expenditure...

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The Sweetest Blindspot

Posted by Sourav Mitra at 
1. Business is the most devastating WMD that man unleashes on nature. 2. Carbon trading only jeopardizes its greater objective. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!

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