CEO

Well, this blog is written when I was part time teaching at Sinhgad business school. One of the students asked me what is the meaning of phrase 'Horse's Mouth' as he was regularly reading sports section article by this name in Marathi daily 'Sakal' and he was not well versed with English phrases. I did answer him but somewhere i was still not satisfied with myself as I could not really cite an example that will make it more clear. I was looking for realizing meaning of this phrase 'Horse's Mouth' subconsciously whole day and was looking out for example - doing my chores in the office. I had no sooner read Cybage CEO Arun's newsletter than I was glee with satisfaction. I had realized the meaning of Horse's mouth.

His newsletters stating the facts about Company's performance are really studded with gr8 examples, very lucid and rich language and praise of the right people. Such personal writings about organization from owner makes employee feel closer to happenings in organization as against to large organizations where CEO is merely a post. CEO's of large organization talk more of what management board has to say and not what they want to say. Sad but true fact it that CEO's of big organizations worry more about their own position and image, board consensus, stock prices but hardly about customer satisfaction and employee welfare.

Oh... i already lagged behind?

Look at this random page of my orkut friends and all save one are migrated to foreign countries almost for good. In my 5 yrs at tcs i travelled to B'lore for 6 months :)

When i see repeated pics of their families ( Save few ) posing at the backdrop of Naigara, i feel immobilised in my chair & can possibly only recall my visit to Mulshi Dam. How may i get to understand global perspective unless i travel. I am not belittling myself or my friends as they are gr8 intellectuals, but, this is just amazing observation which in fact is very common with anybody.

Kapil Sibbal doesn't want marks!

I really wonder how Mr. Sibbal's decision to do away with % marks And optional board exams is going to ease burden on children who should be made strong in this billion people world. TV channels ( Times now ) is seconding this decision by showing that yesterday a girl from Delhi committed suicide as she could not get into college of her choice, owing to reason that she was short of 2% marks to make it to admission list. But the question is how replacing the %age system is going to avoid these kind of tragedies ? The point of contention, although the girl secured 92% in this particular case, is students are dejected by not getting into top colleges or in top coures where their rivals get admitted or in colleges where their parents expected to get admition and so on..... and not because they scored less marks.

How the new system will ensure everybody will get course and college of choice? Is this the change for the sake of change? In my opinion, one thing is sure, however you try to make education across India at same level there would be yawning gap beween quality of education in differnt schools owing to reasons as varied as finger prints. Hence we should let pattern develope naturally and adopt procedures in best schools in other schools gradually. I think Sudden change like this will ceate confusion as I am pretty sure this will not ease problems which have to be solved at some other level, and in some other way.