THERE was a time when government employees retired at 55 years of age. The received wisdom was that most people died at 50...
ByMK KawDecember 5, 2014Retirement Blues… FOR India’s civil servants there are two kinds of retirement—one, compulsory (at age 60) and two, voluntary (after 20/30 years of...
ByMG DevasahayamDecember 5, 2014THE little murmur about increase in the age of superannuation of Central government employees has been quashed for the time being by the...
ByPrabhat KumarDecember 5, 2014Recently, SEBI cracked down on India’s biggest realty company, DLF. It barred six of its top executives, including promoter-chairman KP Singh, from entering...
ByAnil TyagiNovember 4, 2014WHEN institutions of faith crumble, it hurts. As Peter F Drucker says, “No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen...
ByNeeraj MahajanOctober 4, 2014From big sharks to small fish, the Indian financial system is a haven for conmen and swindlers. All kinds of individuals, structured associations...
ByNeeraj MahajanSeptember 4, 2014SUNANDA, the wife of a peon in an advertising agency, secretly invested Rs 1,000 every month in a ‘chit fund’ which promised to...
ByNeeraj MahajanSeptember 4, 2014AUTONOMY has two essential components: strategic and operational. While adopting the Board-managed form of organisation with absolute operational freedom and flexibility in decision-making,...
ByK. SUBRAMANIANAugust 7, 2014IT was a momentous occasion when P Upendra, the then Minister for Information & Broadcasting in the National Front government, reeled out assurances...
ByVINOD KAPOORAugust 6, 2014