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Bring meaning(s) to your business with glossary Its now widely recognized that one of the most potent contributors to confusion and conflict in family owned businesses is communication failure. Founders, successors, senior executives, parents, siblings, family stakeholders outside the business, non-family employees - all may suffer needless frustration and sub-par productivity because they dont speak a common language. So I directed this columns Verbosity Brigade, a crack team of MBA students who give unnecessarily complex answers to simple questions, to compile a short glossary of words and phrases that affect communication in family business settings. Here now is the Brigades output,

The bigger picture: how to succeed Following the introduction by the dean of Manchester Business School, I offered my thanks and then invited a volunteer from the audience to come down and challenge me to Indian wrestling this is a test of physical strength in which two people arm wrestle to see whos the strongest. It was abundantly clear then, and the reaction has been the same ever since, that the audience thought: Whatever this guys smoking, he ought to stub it out! However, I persisted. Eventually, typically, a tall Australian would emerge from the audience thinking: This mans old enough to

When Abhishek Sehgal came to the U.S. to pursue an MBA at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, he expected to get some work experience in the country. But the second-year MBA student from India didnt anticipate it would be so difficult to get a visa to work after graduation. Citigroup (C), the 28-year-olds future employer, submitted his H-1B visa application on Apr. 2, the first day petitions were accepted. But the pool of applicants was already oversubscribed, and Sehgals application wasnt chosen in a random computer selection. All was not lost. After Sehgal completed his degree requirements

It is a folklore in this sleepy village, that Dr. Ve rghese Manoirs foot in the first sentence, Anand, on Friday, 13, 1949. But never sign of the boredom of man, built a movement that shook the nation and still rules. And along the way, he brought joy to farmers Anand, became an icon. But as a storm is brewing in Anand, it is a fight in hand for large old man. His critics say he faces a difficult challenge. But Anand feels different. Indeed, if a gateway for the country's milk capital, Anand, built, it is, he chose the design. Indeed,

FROM the famous tea fields of Assam to the hinterland of Punjab, Mr Mohanpal Singh Sidhu has travelled a long distance. He has ventured into the new area of agriculture that is popularly called organic farming. His farm at Goniana village is at a stone’s throw from the historic Muktsar town. Mr Sidhu has spent about 35 years in tea fields before shifting to farming in Muktsar. Before retiring in 1996 as Joint Managing Director of the Assam Company Limited, Calcutta, one of the oldest tea companies of the world, Mr Sidhu established a wholly organic produce division for tea, which was

It is a folklore of the city in what Dr Ve rghese Mansions first foothold in Anand, on Friday, 13, 1949. But never sign of the boredom of a man who is a movement that shook the nation, and yet no business rules. And along the way, he brought joy to farmers Anand, has become an icon. But, as a storm is brewing in Anand, it is a fight by hand to the big old man. Its critics say it is faced with a difficult challenge. But Anand feels different. Indeed, if a gateway to the country's milk capital, Anand, is

Kozhikode: Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rediff.com, urged young students of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K), we observe that the trends deploy in the country, the economic scenario, if they so wished, to become an entrepreneur. Presenting a paper "The challenge for companies" within two days the annual meeting of IT Management Seminar (AIMS), 2005, began in the IIM-K Campus Saturday, Mr. Balakrishnan said that now days relocating their businesses were De activity on the Internet. None of Top-10 companies listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange (MSE) for the year 2005, as there is in these

The Indian software industry has many laurels for the country in the last decade of the 20th century. It was India on the world map as well as software services are concerned and won the Mindshare many policy makers and researchers. Many researchers see it as a consequence of the division of labour that industry and competitiveness in the long term is uncertain. East reinforced by the fact that the industry has only a small share of global market and companies have low productivity. The Indian companies are below the value pyramid. The results of this document raises questions about

Where Do MBAs Want To Work Fortune magazine recently published a list of the companies where the most MBA graduates say they want to start their careers. The winner in what Fortune calls the popularity contest for companies is the consulting company McKinsey & Co. The list of the top 100 companies includes large and small companies from a variety of industries; everything from Disney to the CIA. You an also see the differences in the list when filtered by womens preferred companies and see the breakdown by industries. Its not surprising that MBAs want to work for a consulting firm

The anatomy of B-school placements: How companies throw a fit Why is placement information kept confidential in B-schools? How are companies slotted during the placement days? How do companies compete in a cutthroat manner to get the best candidates? Reporting exclusively from leading school Goa Institute of Managements campus during its placements, we capture the unseen machinery and drama behind a typical MBA placement process. Its pretty much a demand-supply issue. Companies need good managerial talent and the avenues to identify and recruit that good managerial talent are limited in India. Between November and March, when most Indian B-schools open up their

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