Life of a Business Principal in Consulting

I am a socialist by education and a capitalist by profession. I am hence very confused by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan for Clean India Campaign . The Campaign has all the similarities of a typical silicon valley startup dream campaign. Market gap Healthy ecosystem Consumer need Very large market segment with similar need All these should be driving plenty of companies to have taken advantage of this campaign and started making money. Delving deeper , I see some issues that could be learnings and also a few opportunities. #1 - Public-Private cooperation This is a very abused word right now in the Indian governance. It rarely helps the normal citizen. I am not sure how it helps the private players. It does help the bureaucrats shift the blame though. Public-Private cooperation will not work for India with such a small concentration of urban space and will lead to skewed demand and supply that will make the issue worse. What we should instead look at is h...

Tesco's missteps with its foray into United states of America and its accounting misadventures are unfortunate. Equally unofrtunate is the fact that the new CEO seems to focus on these negaitive events and fails to provide inspiration to the employees on the ground. Any large multi national corporattion would have to go through these challenges. However, it must be prepared to meet these challenges. It is very important for the leadership to handle this crisis without any impact to the operations of the organization. Employees need focus at a time of crisis so that they can keep the engine running. They do not need to know what went wrong in a part of the organization that they were not involved with. The leadership needs to provide the confidence that they can go past the crisis. The leadership also needs to bring the focus to the opportunities that lie ahead and abstract all the negativity around the crisis. In all this crisis, one interesting question that comes out is ...