23 Jan
About a month back I happened to watch some random Kannada movie playing on TV starring wifebeater Darshan (it was called “Boss”, I think). It seemed like yet another of those typical masala flicks, with twin brothers and a weeping mother and lots of rowdies and corporate rivalry and all that. Overall it was a [...]
Posted in arbit, entertainment, fundaes, movies by: skimpy
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06 Jan
B-schools based in the US use a unique self-selecting mechanism to filter out applicants who might be a bad fit for a management job. This they achieve by making the application process more complicated, but in a way that the kind of people they hope to attract find it simple. Let me explain. Like most [...]
Posted in business, education by: skimpy
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02 Jan
Sometime last week, the wife wanted to know more about management consulting, and I was trying to explain to her the kind of work that consulting firms do. I told her that the two most important skills to have in order to be a successful consultant are structured thinking and people skills, and in order [...]
Posted in business, fundaes, personal, work by: skimpy
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01 Jan
this post was written yesterday when blog was down, so posting it now. Bob: Damn, I’ve to go to Eve’s party tonight Alice: Oh, but I thought you actually wanted to go? Bob: Nope, I have other things to do and it’s inconvenient to go. But if I don’t go, Eve will get hurt. Alice: [...]
Posted in arbit, economics, fundaes by: skimpy
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