Nats, Reds Make 8-Player Trade
The News Review:
- Nats, Reds Make 8-Player Trade
- Justice through courts, not guns
- Desi dose: India Inc loves it
- Sportsbooks: Woosnam’s all-round talent to the fore
- Call Centres in Chaos
Nats, Reds Make 8-Player Trade
Washington Post – Jul 13, 2006
Trade away pitching and home grown talent Bray for offense and a Brad Wilkerson type at that and another teams reject Wagner. Yes, the Nats are so much better now. Yikes, I can hardly wait to see what load of drek Bowden gets for Soriano. Trade away pitching and home grown talent Bray for offense and a Brad Wilkerson type at that and another teams reject Wagner.
Justice through courts, not guns
Economic Times – Jul 13, 2006
Such outfits have in recent years set off several
bombs in Mumbai itself, Varanasi and Delhi. We cannot pretend that
this is the handiwork just of foreign agents such as Lashkar-e-Toiba. We have
home-grown Islamic militants, with formal or informal links to broader global
militant groups. These cannot be tackled with the tactics used to crush the
regional militancy in Punjab. The problem today is that technology
has made deadly explosives easily available, so any aggrieved group can cause
more damage than was conceivable in the past. Global experience suggests that
Islamic militancy is here to stay. Bomb blasts have ripped across
London, Madrid, and Bali, apart from India.
Desi dose: India Inc loves it
Economic Times – Jul 13, 2006
Promoter-run companies with global
ambitions are managing to woo the big wigs of India Inc for strategic roles in
their companies. So, whether it’s Reliance, Pantaloon, Essar or Dabur,
these home-grown companies are attracting serious talent as they provide an
environment of empowerment and entrepreneurship. Adil Malia, V-P, HR
Coke, has just left the soft drinks major to join Essar as president, HR. Mr
Malia joins a long list of big wigs who have recently made such a move — VS
Sitaram has moved from Unilever London to join Dabur, Gunender Kapoor left
Unilever Nigeria to join Reliance Retail, N Sridhar shifted to Pantaloon from
Britannia, Rajeev Karwal moved to Reliance Retail after Electrolux stint, Sanjiv
Gupta left Coke for Pantaloon’s Indivision, Bhaskar Basu quit Perfetti
Indonesia to head Costa Coffee’s franchisee operations, Anil Dua left
Gillette to join Hero Honda and Ravi Saxena went for Lifestyle Retail after the
Sodexho assignment. The divide between promoter-run companies and
MNCs is fast disappearing with candidates only considering the professional
aspect of an organisation. “It’s just a question of being
professional vs unprofessional and not MNC vs Indian companies nowadays,”
says Mohit Mohan, V-P, Gilbert Tweed, an executive search firm.
Sportsbooks: Woosnam’s all-round talent to the fore
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 13, 2006
Small wonder that the product of this system should have been confident, charming and distant. Whatever his faults, Woosnam (no relation to the golfer, apparently) gave great pleasure to the thousands who watched him play, whether it was tennis at Wimbledon, where he won the men’s doubles title, or with Manchester City, where he was regarded as the best midfielder and captain the team had ever known, and where there is still a street named after him. The Daily Mail, then as now ever keen to over-hype home-grown talent, called Woosnam “The Admirable Crichton of sport”. There was lively debate about how this athletic giant, with thighs “like telegraph poles”, should best employ his talents. Tennis fans said he should give up foot-ball; football fans felt he should give up tennis. Both sets of enthusiasts wished he would give up golf, cricket, real tennis, table tennis and other activities that stopped his talents from developing. Woosnam didn’t care.
Call Centres in Chaos
SourceWire – SourceWire (press release) – Jul 13, 2006
However, our own home-grown call centre industry is under such pressure that it can only be a matter of time before similar scandals happen here. A lack of training, unattractive working environments, low esteem, poor rates of pay, high staff turnover rates and temporary staff recruited at short notice to help with seasonal demand, all create a pressure cooker atmosphere where criminality can find an easy access point. The call centre industry and its corporate clients cannot abdicate from their responsibilities to protect customers by claiming that criminality appears in only a few isolated instances. Every instance of criminal activity eats away at public confidence in the call centre industry and erodes the reputations of some of our largest and most respected companies who are perceived to be cutting corners in order to put profit ahead of customer service and protection. The way that call centres are currently set up, operated and managed, leaves them open to abuse both in this country and abroad.