Home Organisation Choices Publications Perspectives You can’t shrink a business to greatness! You can’t shrink a business to greatness! “You can’t shrink a business to greatness!” These words were uttered some years ago, by a non-finance leader, who was just beginning to understand finance in his role as CEO. Having been brought up under the…
Home Reflective Practice Research Publications Mental Model My Frame of Reference for Strategic Choices in an Industry-in-Transition My Frame of Reference for Strategic Choices in an Industry-in-Transition I work for the world’s largest lighting firm at a time when the lighting industry is undergoing a major transition, caused by growth in urbanisation, changes in technology…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Book Review: Adaptive Markets by Andrew Ho Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Ho. Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford), 2017, First Edition; 483 pages; £31.95 Since the financial crises of 2008, the workings of financial markets and its participants (namely,…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Insights You have not Earned the Right to Resign! You have not Earned the Right to Resign! That’s what I told an individual that I did not want to hire and now did not want to see go. Part 1: The New Hire We interviewed candidate for a C-suite role.…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Insights Treat others how you would like to be treated: Why it doesn’t work! “The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated.” Richard Branson. Applying the Golden Rule in business makes sense or does it? Consider this case: My program coordinator stepped into…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Perspectives 4 Reasons why you should stay with a Bad Manager According to a Gallup study around 50% of employees leave their company to get away from their bosses. In addition, Jack Ma advised that “When you are 20 to 30 years old, find a good boss. A good boss is better…
Home Organisation Choices Publications Analytical Studies Analysis of Business Performance Practice A business leader or a manager needs to review his or her business’ performance from market as well as organisational perspectives. Our approach to analysis of business performance covers the following 3 aspects: Market, includes reviewing the performance from customer and competitive perspective. Operational, includes the…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Perspectives Managing Costs to Manage Growth & Profitability I consider managing cost to be as important as managing growth. Since costs are inputs for generating sales, we expect them to grow slower than sales. Only then the profitability, as measured by the margin on sales, will go up. In other words,…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Study of Economic Performance: The Case of India Economics is about earnings, consumption, savings and investment choices Macroeconomics studies aggregate values for many different variables in each of the above-mentioned areas. It is a study of level, structure and behaviour of aggregates, like any other variable of…