Time Management is something most of us claim to either have mastered or are completely useless at. Some signs are, being perpetually running late for meetings, not able to schedule, so on & forth. Over the years passing thru these phases & watching a bunch of friends & colleagues namely R. Sriram; Soeb Fatehi; Sunil Sheth; Hemant Gajjer; Devangshu Datta to name a few have managed to change myself to a greater extent, more importantly becoming adept at managing time most of the days — Read the rest of this entry »

According to the media & the highly qualified common man, the last month has been extremely bad for India, with inflation at a record high etc. etc. These articles, comments (most of them given by people who have no clue or at times by people who can only retain their job provided they comment) are mostly to be taken with a pinch of salt. Whilst there is some truth involved, some thoughts that occur to one that can be practiced maybe now or forever by businesses -

1 Remember what Sam Walton said: Trust your customers. Go talk to them, bad times or good times.

2 Ask yourself what you want to look like when recovery comes & start working towards the outcome. Read the rest of this entry »

Sundar the ever perfectionist, had announced his arrival to Mumbai nearly a month in advance.

As usual it looked as if everyone was too lazy to coordinate the entire effort, with details flying back & forth but nobody taking the initiative.

With a idea of calling Milind, Manisha, Sumir etc. over to Mumbai & make it a good reunion.

Milind confirming his arrival. Tushar already on his visits to mumbai (already participant in the earlier one 22nd april) confirms that he would be available.

Closer to the date, Doc decides he does not want to grace the occasion.

AND mercy, I am down with fever, cold that gains complete control over my speech, so I can no longer be a part of the merry gang!!

Sundar announces his arrival to me, Tushar, Sarabjit, Husseni, Sonal, Sunita. But as wonders shall never cease, everyone calls each other up, enquiring about what is to be done?

With Sarabjit & Sunita not answering their emails, cellphone, text; it remains my constant sms push to husseni & tushar (but pushing a car on the highway, husseni has lost his cell phone).

Finally aided by the local ENT (good one actually, who said that it is my shouting to baroda that led to this problem with the throat), push by Nippa (since she had to answer my phone) a super human effort by me, that I manage to speak with Husseni & Tushar - Viola - we have agreed to a place - PREETAM da Dhaba in Dadar - midway for sundar & radhika; husseni & rosemin as well as sonal & tushar(tg); tushar & hiren; me & nippa. We were optimistic till the 3rd that Sunita would be contacted. Personally I had given up on Saberjet, since there was absolutely no response from him. Read the rest of this entry »

IPL had started with a lot of matches under the bridge so to speak, along with a lot of issues, harbhajan, sreesanth, cheer leaders etc having passed under the bridge, a close friend & single malt enthusiast (Mehul A Desai though 3/4 of us can be termed more enthusiast than collectors/connoisseurs) had been calling us over for a dram! beside watching the match also.

Co incidentally, another friend (Neil Rodrigues) was promised some exceptional Rye whiskey. Templeton Rye Whiskey

I was completely exhausted from the morning session of meeting old school friends at Preetam da Dhaba, where the company was great, food ok, beer chilled…..all of which ran till 5p.m.

As a confirmed foodie, with a bit of interest in wanting to experiment my favorite food with whiskey & wine, I had decided that today we would have the universal, chat (mumbai style) along with the Macallan 12yr Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Read the rest of this entry »

Patience in Planning and Impatience in Execution always creates miracles.