Philosophy and Culture
‘Frugal engineering is India’s strength’
Business-The Times of India In an interview to the TOI, the current poster boy of the global car industry, Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn and M&M’s charismatic managing director Anand Mahindra exuded an optimism that may well set the future for joint ventures in India’s fast growing automobile business. And the no-nonsense, tough speaking Ghosn who [...]
Cultural Differences – Silence in Conversations
Today I was speaking to an Argentine business associate and he shared with me some frustrations. He was telling me how he communicates via email with potential Indian clients(government and company officials) and then does not get a response for long periods of time or not at all. I told him there could be various [...]
Indra Nooyi: sueños cumplidos
Profile of Indra Nooyi in the Bs.As. daily La Nacionlanacion.com Los títulos, como una larga alfombra roja, parecían antecederla de una manera pomposa y ceremonial: “La ejecutiva más poderosa del mundo”, según la revista Fortune. “Una de las 100 mujeres más influyentes de los Estados Unidos (puesto 28)”, de acuerdo con Forbes. “Una de las [...]
Answers to questions a resurgent India seeks!
- Corporate Dossier-Features-The Economic Times Indian youth have a huge amount of dissatisfaction, hopefully a divine discontent , and they can change things around. They have three strengths: first, persistence, second, innovation, and third, happiness. These are distinctive and are rooted in our history and genes. PERSISTENT INDIA Two anecdotes exemplify this: Ramesh, a tea [...]
Death of globalisation consensus
Business24-7 Although economic globalisation has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries and has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China and elsewhere in Asia, it rests on shaky pillars. Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only “weakly [...]
Boss Nova:Harvard Law’s Roberto Unger takes on the future of Brazil
ChronicleReview.com Think of Roberto Mangabeira Unger as Brazil’s answer to John Stuart Mill — a century and a half later and considerably nattier — with a pronounced Nietzschean bent that drives him to certain acts of excess. Unger is not the first philosopher to snare, so to speak, a state office of his own, or [...]
Cervantes quote on liberty/freedom
Image via Wikipedia This has no immediate relevancy but I came across this today, and I was inspired to post it. Don Quijote is one of the greatest novels ever written. “La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos. Con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros [...]
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