Adopt a winning attitude. Like any football or basketball coach, you always " always " believe you're going to win. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the life cycle of a unit or company. A leader has to constantly say, "We have a problem; let's go and get it" " and convey that attitude with passion and intensity. Take calculated risks I was with Mikhail Gorbachev as...
03:23 PM, Jun 18, 2012
K Ganesh, 50, the Energizer Bunny of Indian entrepreneurship, is either angry, annoyed or sarcastic. I can't tell. "VCs (venture capitalists) have a herd mentality. They don't mind funding the sixth baby products site or the eighth (discount) deals site. But one of the reasons we got into this business is because it isn't 'VC-able'. It means two pony-tailed youngsters out of college can't enter it. It's our competitive barrier...
03:02 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Patna: On the first anniversary of the police firing at Forbesganj in which four members of the minority community were killed and many others injured, the Opposition parties on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Demanding the probe, RJD state unit chief Ramchandra Purve who led an 'Aakrosh March' in Patna during the day alleged that atrocities against the minorities have increased during the NDA rule. Slamming the...
08:12 PM, Jun 03, 2012
There comes a time in most foodies lives when they lose interest in restaurant food. I recall when it happened to me and my wife: The third week of February, 2010. Thats when our son was born. But being the frequent eater-outers that we were, we didnt give in without a fight. We managed a few dinners when he was still just a few months old, carrying him into a...
07:03 PM, Jun 02, 2012
There seems to be no end to criticism for the economic policies by the Manmohan Singh government as the UPA-II completes three years in power. CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair spoke to Forbes Magazine CEO Steve Forbes and he claimed that the government has made errors at many levels. Following is an excerpt from the interview with Steve Forbes: Smitha Nair: Do you think the Manmohan government has shifted the goal post...
08:06 AM, May 22, 2012
New York: Jennifer Lopez dethroned Lady Gaga as the world's most powerful celebrity, according to a list published Wednesday by Forbes magazine in which the queen of US television Oprah Winfrey came in in second place. The singer of numbers such as 'Let's Get Loud' and 'Love Don't Cost A Thing' has hurtled upwards from the No. 50 slot she occupied last year in the magazine's ranking of the 100...
04:00 PM, May 17, 2012
New York: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been named No 1 in the World's 20 Most Powerful Moms list which also ranked India-born Indra Nooyi at the 3rd spot and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at No 6. The list released by Forbes on World Mother's Day on Sunday placed 64-year-old Hillary Clinton, who has one of the world's biggest jobs in hand, at No 1. The list chosen...
02:01 PM, May 13, 2012
Nata Menabde Age: 52 Designation: WHO Representative to India Education: MSc in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmacology Career: Nearly 20 years at WHO; was deputy regional director for Europe before coming to India in 2010 Interests: Plays the piano and guitar. Likes classical music, jazz, water sports, history and Russian literature Q. What are the top three challenges in healthcare in India? Communicable diseases remain part of the unfinished agenda for...
02:17 PM, May 12, 2012
Be careful. Very careful. "Bad management theories are destroying good management practices". That is what Sumantra Ghoshal, one of the most respected voices in the world on what management ought to be like, argued in a path breaking paper by the same name. It was published shortly after he died in 2004 and continues to hold resonance even today. It was written when a wave of devastating corporate scandals had...
01:46 PM, May 12, 2012
Here's a Pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy. Run Mister Run If all the exercise you get is the bit when you move your hands around to strike an imaginary tennis ball on your Wii, it is probably time you got running, sir. Run like the wind on Technogym's Jog Now while you're watching episodes of South Park and...
10:54 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Neeraj Swaroop Age: 53 years Designation: Was regional chief executive, India & South Asia at Standard Chartered Bank. He is now the regional chief executive for South East Asia (excluding Singapore) Education: IIT, Delhi and MBA from IIM Career: Worked at Unilever, India, HDFC Bank and Bank of America Interests: Watching cricket, travelling, swimming Q. A lot of foreign banks have had issues in scaling up in India, but Standard...
08:42 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Sanjna Kapoor Age: 44 Education: Very little (O-levels) Designation: Co-founder and director of Junoon, ex-director, Prithvi Theatre Career: Worked 21 years at Prithvi, energising the venue with various initiatives, programmes and festivals Interests: The world of theatre, scuba diving and walking in the wild Tell us a little about the Prithvi story. What's kept it going? And what have you tried to achieve while you were running it? Sheer madness...
12:45 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Beijing: The number of billionaires from China has declined for the first time due to the sluggish domestic stock market and government curbs on sectors like real estate. The number of Chinese, who dominated the Forbes Billionaires List in the past, dropped from 115 last year to 95 this year. The list contained 1,226 billionaires from all over the world. A total of 40 former billionaires from China, who are...
04:52 PM, Mar 09, 2012
You wouldn't associate someone who commanded three nuclear bases at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s with running the world's largest entertainment businesses. But that's exactly what Bill Roedy has done, and this book chronicles that journey. Roedy graduated from West Point (the US military academy) and served in Vietnam before commanding nuclear bases in North Italy. He left the army after 11 years to pursue an...
10:50 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New York: India is home to over four per cent of the world's billionaires, including the likes of the Ambani brothers, Azim Premji and NR Narayan Murthy alongside Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people. Forbes's list of 1226 billionaires is topped by Mexico's 72-year-old telecom czar Carlos Slim, boasting of a networth of $ 69 billion. Slim retained his title as...
08:26 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New York: ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochchar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and film producer Ekta Kapoor are among the nine Indian women named in Forbes magazine's inaugural 'Asia Power Businesswomen list'. The list names 50 "pathbreakers" whose extraordinary business success is driving the region's remarkable economic rise, Forbes said. "Although the role of women in Asia-Pacific's economy is growing, most of these honorees still have had to overcome...
05:37 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Dubai: Qatar has been ranked as the world's wealthiest country in a new list compiled by the prestigious US magazine Forbes. The Gulf State with a population of 1.7 million topped the list as the world's richest country per capita, thanks to a rebound in oil prices and its massive natural gas reserves. Adjusted for purchasing power, Qatar booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $...
09:59 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Ravi Prasad Age: 51 Designation: Executive Chairman, Himalaya Drug Company The Challenge: Take the companys range of therapeutic and personal care products to overseas markets How He Did It: He targeted doctors through articles in peer-reviewed journals and allowed customers to sample the products in supermarkets The Next Goal: Double the companys revenues riding on the strength of the international operations that is growing faster than India Himalaya started building...
11:11 AM, Feb 16, 2012
In October 2009, nine months after converting the floundering Nature's Basket into a gourmet food store, its team was pleasantly surprised. Its seven stores in Mumbai had seen sales grow at 70 per cent " a surprisingly quick validation of their change in strategy. Getting there, however, has been a rough ride. Two years earlier, Godrej's Nature's Basket business wasn't going as planned. The store, set up in 2006, had...
11:52 AM, Feb 11, 2012
