The art of successful downsizing
Old established companies are pitted against competitors with new products, new technologies, and manpower smaller in size but more productive.
Setting up the Knowledge Shop
Isn't it ironic that while we crow about the Knowledge Economy, few Indian cos bother to mine their internal knowledge resources? While even the worst managed organisation is quick to institute an employee suggestion scheme, little work is done to prospect the goldmine of information employees carry around in their heads.
Maharashtra's problems
The status of Maharashtra as the best investment destination has come under threat due to the aggressive efforts of other states to present themselves as more attractive to industry.
Magic realism in Bangkok
This is like a chronicle of an escape foretold. For all you know, mafiosi `patriot' Chhota Rajan might have turned all the hospital bedsheets collected by his bodyguards from god knows where into a magic carpet and flew from his fourth floor cuckoo's nest into the Bangkok night.
Eavesdropper
Congress party is changing ideological course. Party president Sonia Gandhi has decided that if "Garibi Hatao" made her mother-in-law immortal, so will it give her a new political life.