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Music to my ears, transformed By Roopen Roy Jul 16 2013 Bloomberg NEW TUNES: Today’s music listeners want freedom. They want to listen to any genre of music at any time, anywhere on any device in a connected world, They share music instantly across oceans as well A senior executive of State Bank of India once…
মা কালী কৈবল্যদায়িনী ব্রহ্মময়ী তারা তোমার নাকের ছামুতে রবীন্দ্রনাথের নামগুলো এক এক করে চুরি করছে , প্রাসাদের নাম দিয়েছে শান্তিনিকেতন ! বিধি যখন বাম , স্মরণ করো রাম পালাবে ভূত ভাগবে শাঁকচুন্নি হবে কমরেড ব্যাপক পুন্নি মোদীজি জিতিয়া প্রমান করিলেন তিনি জেতেন নাই শেষ অবধি আমাকেই ফোন করতে হলো , প্রশান্তদা বেশ কয়েকদিন চুপ চাপ…
The Harvard Business School (HBS) carried out an experiment several years ago. I call it the case of the Invisible Gorilla. The participants are asked to watch a short video in which six people—three in white shirts and three in black shirts—pass basketballs around. While you watch, you are asked to focus on counting accurately…
Democracy doesn’t win brownie points By Roopen Roy Aug 16 2016 Let’s face it, there’s no point in waiting for the Chinese to self destruct its software industry Economists often make mistakes in predicting outcomes. When they wear glasses tinted with politics, they blunder. Here is a perfect example. Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya have written a…
Companies with colonial ambitions and puppet managers fail to create sustainable value for their stakeholders. This was first demonstrated by the East India Company. Robert Clive conspired with Mir Jafar, a general in the army of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. Mir Jafar betrayed his master paving the way for the rout of the Bengal army in the…
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) The way we measure success influences the behavior of those who are measured. If we measure a person’s success in life only by how much wealth he has accumulated or by how much he earns, then we are really motivating him or her to focus on earning money. We…
Measure yourself against the best By Roopen Roy Mar 17 2015 If you are constantly judging your performance against your own past, there is a danger that you will reinforce your complacency. Let us say you are #5 in the stack of your competitors and you are growing at 10 per cent per annum. Because of general…
Maximizing the Prime of Time Roopen Roy (Views are personal) A master batsman in cricket will tell you that it is not just stroke-play. It is also superb timing that creates winning shots. The batsman judges the flight, pitch and direction of the ball and perfectly times the stroke to send the ball to the…
The Finance Minister (FM) presented the Budget for 2012-2013 in the shadows of shrill criticism against governance failure, corruption and waste of tax-payers money. The vast amounts of money that the central government spends each year does not trickle down fully. It trickles out through leakages. And sometimes, defying the laws of physics, it…
In the games of cricket and musical chairs, timing makes the difference between winning and losing. Your timing must be impeccable if you seek to succeed. Some create wealth by anticipating the rise of a startup before others realise and invest. For others, fortunes are made by foreseeing the miseries of corporations and nations-…