When it comes to Goal setting think of setting goals like an athlete. Let us take the case of a runner…he could set goals for a Personal Best, a meet record, a meet win, running the whole season without injury, managing health and weight within some parameters….this helps. Let us say the meet record of […]
You talk to any HNI and he will tell you ‘OMG ..my relationship manager made me do this’…and then they start bashing the poor kid. The relationship manager in the bank is the foot soldier who meets the customer and tries to get revenue for the bank or brokerage house… What is his role (as […]
This younger generation has no goals, no aims, nothing – we were so focused….so said a friend of mine. I am quite surprised and sometimes saddened when such remarks are made. Every generation has its stars, super stars, successful people, fraudsters, lazy bums, idiots,….in more or less the same quantities is the feeling I got. […]
There are some loose cannon balls out there at the regulators place who are hell bent on letting blood flow… The mutual fund industry in India was anyway a top 8 cities, institutional phenomena. However the retail portion was serviced by a huge army of advisers and employees of AMCs. You should meet the Indian […]
Time and again I have been saying that it is easy for a regulator to go after an industry that is reasonably well organised rather than a completely new one. This is the reason why there is: no white paper on how people lose money in real estate (whom will you chase?) no white paper […]
I have a friend who has worked in a bank for many years – from a rookie sales person to almost the top job in sales and marketing. She has (to me surprisingly) acquired a lot of knowledge about banking, mutual fund and life insurance. Not knowing much of her background (she now works for […]
Yesterday I ran the Standard Chartered Marathon. Maybe I used the wrong verb – I walked much more than I ran. However, there were some lessons. I had done the marathon in 155 minutes in the previous year (year 2008) and set myself a target of 145 minutes for this year’s marathon. However my sincierity […]