(via HBS) Gill Corkindale discusses the unspoken rules of nepotism. She was a personal victim of it. She was working with a pleasant, if unremarkable, young man who had just joined the newspaper from a local rag. He was inexperienced and finding it hard to adjust to the relentless deadlines, but we were happy to [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Nepotism : Good or Bad
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Shrikant Patil’s Favourite Articles
Posted in good read, managing people, wisdom on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This blog’s archive is getting bigger and deeper everyday. It is time that I link to some of my favourtites …. I always admired Andy Grove through my Intel days some of the learnings from his eventful life, What I have learned >>> For anyone starting a company, building a team, instilling a culture, in [...]
What Gandhi’s can Learn from Gandhi
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(via Indian Express) in a brilliant article, Sudheendra Kulkarni talks about how the first family of India misuse the Gandhi surname. He talks about a movie Gandhi My Father by Feroz Abbas Khan, which is one of the finest cinematic narrations of the greatest hero of modern Indian history. Without being overtly pedagogic, the movie [...]
Gandhi on Education
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bapu was a class apart and his observations on education are spot on. Gandhi’s all-encompassing definition of education: “By education I mean all-round development of the best in the child and man body, mind and spirit” is most often quoted by educationists. He was very clear that “literacy is not the end of education nor [...]
