COLUMNSChampioning change: Clarity or chaos
The only permanent thing in the world is change. Everything is changing, either towards better or worst. Change is crucial for individuals as well as for institutions. Driving change in providing needed leadership is essential for sustainable growth. Today’s column is all about championing change.
How to manage your boss
Who is a boss?
A boss is a person who exercises control over other employees in a workplace environment. Over time, the term has come to have negative connotations (note words like bossy and mob boss), and many people who now lead others in the workplace prefer to be called supervisors, foreman or forepersons, leads, or managers.
C-Suits focus on implementing Enterprise Risk Management on enterprise-wide
Introduction
In the context of global economic uncertainty the challenges and opportunities faced by companies around the world continued to evolved. And also evolution of information, communication & technology and convergence of technology, media, telecommunications and use of internet; leads business boundaries disappearing with globalisation. Hence business enterprises been exposed to many risks and uncertainties.
A specific place for corporate governance in annual reports
Avoid haphazard dumping
Ten billion-rupee turnover corporates annual reports of FY 2010 and 2011, public and public quoted commercial banks, were studied to ascertain whether there is a specific standard followed by the leading commercial banks when reporting corporate governance and also whether there is a mandatory requirement of following a particular order of content in the report format.
Petes lucky to win last week
Last week’s battle of the Saints at Bamba was quite an event starting with the increased ticket prices. I am not sure whether the general tendency of price increases in essential goods was a guiding factor but the price of a seat in the sun baked stands close to the VIP enclosure was at Rs. 500.
There also appears to be some confusion with the game scheduled to kick off at 4p.m. but eventually doing so anytime thereafter due to various reasons including the delay of the arrival of the Chief Guest.
Asian economies: Managing spillovers and advancing economic rebalancing
The IMF’s recently released Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook (REO) shows the region continuing to lead global growth and expected to gain momentum over the course of 2012. This forecast, however, remains subject to downside risks related to the global economy, including the possibilities of a sharp fall in exports to advanced economies and a reversal of capital flows, as well as commodity price shocks.
Power: Opium of the political class
The corrupting influence of absolute power, with apologies to Karl Marx
As long ago as in 1843, Karl Marx wrote that “religion is the opium of the masses”. The current behaviour of the political class in many nations, ranging across the whole range of types of governance, from functional democracies to one-party states, to military dictatorships, makes it clear that the time has come to revise Marx’s statement and restate it as “power – the opium of the political class”.
Tendulkar – From cricket to politics: Is it possible?
As a habit I unwind in the night by watching NDTV mainly due to the powerful ideas that it tells the world; especially the programmes like ‘The Buck Stops Here’ and ‘We The People’ are cutting edge, in my view.
Last week there was a breaking news update that cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar was accepting a membership in the Rajya Sabha. It sure surprised me, given that the past experiences of top cricketers joining politics have not brought much success to them or for that matter contributed to the wellbeing of the society at large.
Serene insights on spiritual intelligence
We have just witnessed another vibrant Vesak. At a time when the whole country is united in concluding the celebrations linked to the 2,600 years of Buddhism, it is quite appropriate to discuss something serene relating to Humane Results. That’s why the theme of spiritual intelligence fits into the current ethos.
Globalisation according to Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera
n The Scholar who has refused to change
Humanistic approach
Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, scholar, writer, poet, novelist, social activist and many more, in a special contribution to Professor Buddhadasa Hewavitharana Felicitation Volume Two released last month, has tried to analyse the most recent history of Sri Lanka in the context of the onset of the process now known as globalisation and its philosophical master in the modern world – the free open market system – and pointed to his readers the salvation path that lies ahead of the country.
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