Well this might sound strange but the reason behind not posting for the last 15days is not because I didn't have any topic, but I had too many and I don't know which one to choose. I decided to not post any more "In response to" posts, and leave them in draft mode so that people wont get bored :), maybe I can start a private blog to store all those. Well apart from that there have been MANY incidents in the last 15days which kept provoking me to write, be it crazy IPL & the reason behind DC failure, Olympics/Tibet issue, blasts in Jaipur, Earthquake in China, introduction of womens bill in parliament, elections for 1yr post in Telangana, change in Russian presidency, changing markets & increasing prices, remarks on inflation by Bush, Obama's comeback, global warming and increasing temperatures, blackberry issue, and on personal front about my sister who finished her +2 and discussions @home between engineering vs non-engineering (no points for guessing, I'm in favor of non-engineering :) ), my changed schedule (5:30AM - 11PM daily :D), Khuda ke liye and other movie reviews, religious fanatism (had an elaborate discussion with another friend :) ), the dilemma of a friend on MS in US, a friend addicted to coffee (I think she needs rehab), and then last but not the least to crib regarding a friend who went on a 8day trip with 7other girls to Singapore,Malaysia.
Now you know what the dilemma is all about :D, now you know why I haven't really been posting. I have one huge post on each of these topics, and I couldn't chose one to start with. Everytime I sit down to write I see something else on tv :( seriously it was a lot of strain on my brain :D.
Showing posts with label International Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International Affairs. Show all posts
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
In response to ...
From now on you may find a few of my responses to some of the articles in other sites posted here, after all I need a place to save these :)
So don't even bother to waste your time reading these unless you have time to read the original post.
This is in response to "What is the Future of State Capitalism?" by James Heskett (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5928.html). This response might not have content in depth, but then the topic is one of its kind :)
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Well to start with, quite clearly, there is no correct answer to these questions. While the past decade has seen many major changes in the global economy and the effect of strategic decisions, it has also seen the emergence of state owned corporations and the changes in the conventional laws and regulations allowing these corporations to invest across the globe. Other than few outcries little has been done or can be done to regulate and make the investment strategies and practices more transparent. Necessity is the most critical scamp here and then there are investments due to political reasons.
It takes a lot of courage for the regional laws and regulations to deal with global markets. But it is not as easy as it seems to be when political interests are involved, and coming up with a global agreement in the near future is very unlikely especially when those to be regulated are state owned firms.
In many ways these state owned firms insure the world’s prosperity as long as the key decisions are in favor of making money for the state but then as mentioned there are inefficiencies like corruption and poor investment decisions which might bring about a new equilibrium when managing huge corporations.
So what can really be done is make the investments more transparent regionally and keep a check on who is investing and where. While global agreement isn’t very easy, some kind of transparency standards can be brought up across the free markets.
Well as Alexander Pope wrote in his ‘An Essay on Man’; “Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are and must be greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shock all commonsense.”, and an order can be brought about only when this is accepted by all the markets.
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So don't even bother to waste your time reading these unless you have time to read the original post.
This is in response to "What is the Future of State Capitalism?" by James Heskett (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5928.html). This response might not have content in depth, but then the topic is one of its kind :)
"
Well to start with, quite clearly, there is no correct answer to these questions. While the past decade has seen many major changes in the global economy and the effect of strategic decisions, it has also seen the emergence of state owned corporations and the changes in the conventional laws and regulations allowing these corporations to invest across the globe. Other than few outcries little has been done or can be done to regulate and make the investment strategies and practices more transparent. Necessity is the most critical scamp here and then there are investments due to political reasons.
It takes a lot of courage for the regional laws and regulations to deal with global markets. But it is not as easy as it seems to be when political interests are involved, and coming up with a global agreement in the near future is very unlikely especially when those to be regulated are state owned firms.
In many ways these state owned firms insure the world’s prosperity as long as the key decisions are in favor of making money for the state but then as mentioned there are inefficiencies like corruption and poor investment decisions which might bring about a new equilibrium when managing huge corporations.
So what can really be done is make the investments more transparent regionally and keep a check on who is investing and where. While global agreement isn’t very easy, some kind of transparency standards can be brought up across the free markets.
Well as Alexander Pope wrote in his ‘An Essay on Man’; “Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are and must be greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shock all commonsense.”, and an order can be brought about only when this is accepted by all the markets.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
Not really a post !!
Well I know I'm not supposed to be here till May 2nd week, but then what the hell I won't have anything to post even then anyway hehe ...
[To all the jobless people reading this post, its gonna be complete arbitrary stuff]
few updates:
1. Everything is going good @work, got an award as outstanding individual contributor for doing nothing :D
2. Registered for PG Diploma in Customer Relationship Management from Symbiosis, DELL is mostly likely gonna sponsor it.
3. Watched Harry Met Sally & 50 first dates for the hundredth+ time :)
4. Btw came home i.e. Vijayawada ... May 1st to May4th and it's 39degrees on April 30th & 43degrees on May1st, what a welcome !! oh to top that, the AC wasn't working :(
5. I'm still the same weight as I was in Jan, happy :D ... I really get all nervous when I see most of my colleagues with a tummy bellying out of their shirts ;)
"He who has the gold makes the rules"
How very true ..oh for people who didn't know this, it is the ironic version of the 'golden rule' used usually by economists and traders and believed to be true by an exuberant like me. How very true, how very true
It also gives you the power when you make the rules. You have the upper hand in negotiation. Did you know the story of Wallmart and the hard high hand it has in the negotiations ?? It never compromises.. NEVER!! You have a problem with that, the deal is out & so is your business. That is the reason why it is not advised to make deals with a single client worth more than 20% of your business.
Well I don't know why I started the topic so lemme end it here ... if you want some intellectual discussion on wallmart & power+gold, please feel free to ping me hehe
or read Nash equilibrium if you have more time
hmm ... I have these innumerable arbitrary topics in my mind rt now, and I think I'll start blogging once in a while on these... but then it would sound like essay writing or analytical write ups ..lol ...so a warning to all my poor readers (if there is anyone after this post hehe)
[To all the jobless people reading this post, its gonna be complete arbitrary stuff]
few updates:
1. Everything is going good @work, got an award as outstanding individual contributor for doing nothing :D
2. Registered for PG Diploma in Customer Relationship Management from Symbiosis, DELL is mostly likely gonna sponsor it.
3. Watched Harry Met Sally & 50 first dates for the hundredth+ time :)
4. Btw came home i.e. Vijayawada ... May 1st to May4th and it's 39degrees on April 30th & 43degrees on May1st, what a welcome !! oh to top that, the AC wasn't working :(
5. I'm still the same weight as I was in Jan, happy :D ... I really get all nervous when I see most of my colleagues with a tummy bellying out of their shirts ;)
"He who has the gold makes the rules"
How very true ..oh for people who didn't know this, it is the ironic version of the 'golden rule' used usually by economists and traders and believed to be true by an exuberant like me. How very true, how very true
It also gives you the power when you make the rules. You have the upper hand in negotiation. Did you know the story of Wallmart and the hard high hand it has in the negotiations ?? It never compromises.. NEVER!! You have a problem with that, the deal is out & so is your business. That is the reason why it is not advised to make deals with a single client worth more than 20% of your business.
Well I don't know why I started the topic so lemme end it here ... if you want some intellectual discussion on wallmart & power+gold, please feel free to ping me hehe
or read Nash equilibrium if you have more time
hmm ... I have these innumerable arbitrary topics in my mind rt now, and I think I'll start blogging once in a while on these... but then it would sound like essay writing or analytical write ups ..lol ...so a warning to all my poor readers (if there is anyone after this post hehe)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Castro Resigns :( !!!
NOTE: The following views are my personal and have nothing to do as an Indian !! :)
Well you always have the enthusiasm to post more than 1 on the 1st day, dont you :)
Soo .... Fidel Castro resigns, one of the greatest and living legends of our time and a great leader ends his tenure. People might differ his ways, human rights activists might squeal but the fact remains that he is one of the longest serving leaders in the world and is now stepping down voluntarily owing to his health @ the age of 81.
" At age 32, Castro led a band of guerrillas who overthrew a corrupt dictatorship in 1959. He went on to become a thorn in Washington's side by embracing communism and cozying up to the Soviet Union. " writes CNN
Despite all the rallies by his critics on his counter revolutionary activities, there are no streets in Cuba named after Castro, and no statues or peso bills bearing his image and compare that with India where every street is named after a leader and the name of the airport keeps changing with a change in the political party, isn't dictatorship beautiful in the hands of the right person.
Castro has maintained power largely through popular appeals to the Cuban people an ideal leadership quality I would say. Did you know that there were 638 attempts by the CIA on Castro's life, ... SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT !!!! and he retires with dignity. As Castro says, if surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, he would win the gold medal :).
I guess telugu directors and stroy writers could get inspired by his stories, for the starters there was a mafia types shooting, a diving suit which was fungal infected, an exploding cigar, exploding clams for heavens sake, his lover joining hands with CIA to kill him with a poisonous cold cream and Castro giving her a gun and asking her to shoot him but she could'nt, and finally there was the same old slow poison which also failed.
His speeches remain the most inspiring and he transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. People think money can do or buy anything/anyone but US, economically one of the most advanced countries could neither buy him nor could kill him. Now THAT is what I call power, thanks to the loyal aura he built around him.
Cuba might see democracy after Castro, or it might continue under the leadership of his brother or cousins or children, but one of the greatest leaderships the world has seen is coming to an end, and the Cuba will definitely miss the inspiration his speeches gave/give in all tough times.
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