Many kids or most kids should I say aspire to do their MBA. Sadly the MBA degree in India has too damn high a standard deviation. From the top range IIMs to the ones at the bottom, the gap is too much. The question is – if you are doing your MBA or have done […]

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Hi Subra …should we do some training? Me: Of course R, we should…but tell me what. R: Actually whatever you want. Communication skills, Sales Closing skills, How to make a Powerful Sales Opening…. Me: hey but I rarely do this kind of stuff…I do domain related stuff, you know that for the past 10 years […]

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Yesterday evening a friend called up to say ..in 1995 we saw the birth of the Mutual Fund industry in 2015 will we see the end? Well to start with there is no ‘take over of a mutual fund’ as the whole world will report today. I think L&T Asset Management Company will take over […]

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Helping is a topic with which I have struggled at a philosophical level. It is easy to ‘help’ and say ‘I do not expect anything in return, but somewhere it hurts’ – a friend recently told me. Difficult to agree and difficult to disagree! If you do help somebody be clear why you are doing […]

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What ails the life insurance industry today? Well the biggest worry is lapsation. They have other worries too – like the Swarup committee report, the small ticket size, the poor public image, the lack of communication skills in the sales force…but clearly the biggest worry is lapsation. It beats me completely as to how an […]

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