Madhosh Kiye Jaa

Organisation Structure

Structure follows strategy, someone has said. But structure does play a major part in any organisation. A family can be patriarchal or matriarchal or neither. That makes a difference to how it functions. Same is the case with an organisation.

Top-down decision makers like the Army work differently from a grassroots driven organisation like a few NGOs or cooperatives. Decentralisation is possible through SBUs or Strategic Business Units, if it's a large organisation. But the style of leadership and decision making plays a role there too.

In other words, structure is the beginning, but not the end, of the story.

Performance of the organisation depends on all these.

Finding the Phantom

Old Jungle Saying was- You don't find the Phantom.. he finds you. But I found him, at Oxford book store, back in full glory. Along with Mandrake! Joy doubled!

December 2021-25 Pics

Here are more pics from 2021 Dec to 2025 Dec

with Nishka Rathi at Grandmama's

With Shatakshi and Varun in Bangalore, Indiranagar

Pizza with Prachi, Pratishtha and Akansh, Neeti Ingole

With my grand niece, Bangalore

With Thalaivar, Lonavala Wax Museum

Shraddha at Bhgyalakshmi and Venkatesh's place

Delhi, with Ananya Nandi De and Abha

Golfers batch 1, Prestige University

Fireman Khayal, with Maya

Milind on Church Street

Dhanapal in Kodaikanal

Adithya Padala from California, with his wife. Pune Blue Diamond hotel

Tolly Club with Dash and Shreya- Christmas Eve 2025

Pune with Prathamesh, Prarthana, Shobha, Hari, Satish and others

Suhasini Barmaan at Oxford book store, Park Street

December 2016-2020 Memories

Some pictorial memories from December 2016 till Dec 2020.

Gadgil, Saleena and Madhu. Nagpur, lunch

Krishna Nukala's Masterclass on Malts.

Viren and Laxmi get married, 2018.

Ooty Gymkhana, with Ravi and Subbu

Prachi Jain gifted me this unicorn.. with Pooja in the pic

Pulicat Lake with Vijayakumar, and meeting Kanika Mhendiratta at India Habitat Centre

Rajiv Roy Chowdhary and Sangeeta drop in at NMIMS Bangalore

Pragya Singh and I run into Arvind Joshi at Pagdandi Pune

Mandu, with Anil Lahoti, Satish, Shweta and her nephew

Kancheepuram, with Jayasimha, Vijayakumar and Satish

Review of an Unseen Film

Dhurandhar is the film. In general, I wait for some reviews these days. And if there seems to be a lot of hype, I avoid the film. So I did this, and animal, and a couple of others before this.

Not defending my choice. I am Ok with all kinds of films in general, but something stops me from what I think are over-hyped. I watched a couple of them too, and was disappointed, mostly.

Netflix or other platforms have a wide choice of content. Sometimes formulaic, but from different countries or cultures, so it's sometimes good to see how Turkish serials emphasise similar things like the Indian counterparts, though it is a bit Westernised in presentation. Or how Scandinavian serials are similar in content and presentation. Spanish and South American content is quite similar to each other in many cases. It's a World Tour, of sorts.

Surprisingly, no Iranian serials are on these platforms. Iranian movies are actually very good.

Taking Credit- Movers and Takers

One major skill in being successful at your profession is to take credit where it's not due. You may argue that that is unprofessional, but I would argue that it works.

Look around you. How many politicians have claimed to have almost eradicated poverty, sickness, and bad governance? And will continue to do so, with wonderful results at the polls.

How many CEOs past and present, claim that their company is on its way to being no. 1 in market share, profitability, and return to shareholders, and then watch it go up in smoke?

The King of Good Times can also fall on bad times, but while he was here, there was an aura of invincibility around him. He was actually quite successful in launching the airline with the best customer service.. and an IPL team which eventually won a tournament!

Take credit whenever you can.. for launches, inventions, territory conquered, the Christmas Cake,..anything at all. Even if you are not in politics.. this can do wonders for your career, much more than hard work ever will.. because some other guy will take credit for that.