Infinite thoughts

A day well spent!! It was an amazing experience to be part of TiECon Pune Event held at Hyatt Regency on Saturday Mar 30, 2013.  The event started with keynote from the legendary Mr. Narayana Murthy who faced the questions from three young Entrepreneurs and was facilitated by Mr. Pravin Gandhi . With very straight forward statements made the audience applaud more than once.  Be it country or a company, it should have only one boss. In our country, everyone should retire at 65. Post retirement, one should give advice only if it is asked, not otherwise.   This event observed a full house, with quite a few folks standing along the walls. This followed by a session on Women Entrepreneurs, but many of the attendees were found to be networking outside the hall. Immediately after this were 3 breakout session.  I witnessed the reverse pitch by the VCs to the Entrepreneurs, excellently coordinated by Mukund Mohan , CEO-in-Residence for Microsoft Ac...

But it's willingness to take action goes down as the time passes by. Triggered by a statement by a relative, a memory of a sad instance in company came to surface. That relative was not even remotely related to that instant or the company, but still mentioned few details about it. And I realized that public may not be talking about any given instance, but it is very much there in the public memory. It just takes a mention of story to dig out the whole episode in the public mind. However, what matters then is, whether anyone wants to any action on that. Our politicians benefit from this behavior immensely. They know that once the committee is formulated, it will take a while for the committee to submit the report. And by then, public, busy with there day jobs, will go short on its willingness to force any action on the outcome. Same thing actually worked in favor of society during the Ram-Janmabhumi verdict. Public remembered everything, but there was no motivation , or ...