Cuba has lessons for all of us

In fact, none of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, around which global consulting giant Goldman Sachs has been creating major hype (that in the next 40 years combined, BRIC nations would be economically larger than G-6) have been ranked in the top 50 countries of the world. So forget overtaking the G-6, these countries should first attempt to learn some serious lessons on bettering the society from Cuba, a country with a life expectancy at birth of 75 years, a per capita expenditure on health at $252, with total health expenditure being 7.3% of GDP and an infant mortality rate, which is among the lowest in the region. If only the BRIC countries give a fraction of all the attention it gives to the predictions of American consulting giants and pseudo-development, these countries would have been far better place to live in.

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An IIPM And Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Initiative

Born with nerves of steel

From manufacturers of small iron buckets to a whopping Rs.132 billion conglomerate, that’s the journey accomplished by the O. P. Jindal group till date. As O. P. Jindal had put it once, “A decade of liberalization has redefined business parameters. Jindal Stainless, the flagship company has harnessed these winds of change by offering world class products and services, not only in India but around the world.” Even the tough liberalization period did not deter the company from its track. The group patriarch has walked through this period with ease and in the process has managed to reserve the 548th berth in Forbes list of world billionaires.

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like “Anyone but Bush”

A lot of gloss and glamour has been added to election campaigns nowadays. You now have Hollywood actresses featuring in advertisements and engaging in sexual innuendos – about the “first time” they voted – to Hollywood actors like Robert De Niro leaving mes- sages on your answering machine to go out and vote for Hillary Clinton! During the 2004 Presidential elections, from music albums like Rock Against Bush to full length feature films like Farenheit 9/11, we saw them all being made to convince people to vote against Bush and his policies. If serious logic didn’t work, then humour was used to change people’s mind. Ergo, we had humourous ads like “Anyone but Bush” to humourous slogans on T-shirts proclaiming “No flip-flops in the White House” (a jab on John Kerry’s indecisiveness)

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The Riding Hero!

Developing the Hero Group from a tiny manufacturing company of 60 cycles a day to a manufacturing giant producing 17,000 cycles per day with the vision of sound business governance and value driven management practices, Mr Brijmohan Lall Munjal has come a long way. Born in 1923, and the recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award from A. P. J. Abdul Kalam last year and also the prestigious award of ‘Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2001, he was the first Indian industrialist to efficiently execute ‘backward integration’ and to be recognized as the trend setter in this particular domain.

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every dark cloud has a silver lining

In the short while I’ve spent here, one hitherto unknown fact has dawned on me. Russian cities are a bit like Rubik’s cube; you mix and match the different shadesand never quite know what you’re going to get! Think of it as a riddle wrapped in an enigma or think of it as Kaliningrad, either which way you can’t really go wrong. Which is more than you can say for this citadel itself, as it’s been dubiously dubbed “the corridor of crime”. Few care to brush the surface, pocked as it is with AIDS epidemics, drug abuse and pollution predicaments for starters. But every dark cloud has a silver lining and Kaliningrad has found a fair number of them.

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