hypothesis – Karthik Shashidhar

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Big Management and Big Picture

June 18, 2011

One common shortcoming that top management in a lot of companies is accused of is that they give too much attention to details (i.e. sometimes they micromanage), and they are unable to see the big picture. For example, if you think about the financial crisis of 2007-08, people kept making stupid bets about the mortgage…

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On working in a consulting firm

April 13, 2011

Ok so my hypothesis is that a consulting firm is a good place to work at if and only if the partners are involved in day-t0-day business. Once the partners move on from doing day-to-day work into purely managerial roles – where they only manage their teams and interact with clients, they are no longer…

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The City Lacks Bars

July 25, 2010

Yeah you might think I’m crazy to be cribbing like this about Bangalore, supposed to be India’s pub city and all that jazz. But I stick to my statements. Yeah we might have lots of good pubs and lounges but we don’t have lots of good bars. I was on my way to dinner at…

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Fighterization of food

April 9, 2009

One of the topics that I’d introduced on my blog not so long ago was “fighterization“. The funda was basically about how professions that are inherently stud are “fighterzied” so that a larger number of people can participate in it, and a larger number of people can be served. In the original post, I had…

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Process

February 26, 2009

A couple of days back, I was debugging some code. And yes, for those of you who didn’t know, coding is a part of my job. I used to have this theory that whatever job you take, there is some part of it that is going to be boring. Or to put it in the…