{"id":2698,"date":"2003-03-19T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/attention-mba-profs\/"},"modified":"2003-03-19T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T05:53:55","slug":"attention-mba-profs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200303\/attention-mba-profs\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention MBA Profs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a case study waiting to be written on how a sane man can go through  the following decision-making process:<\/p>\n<p><b>First Attempt &#8211; Ruby Bhatia<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li \/>Has been an anchor on MTV \n<li \/>Has the gift of the gab.\n<li \/>Knows nothing about cricket, but can use it to her advantage by asking basic questions in a charming sort of way. \n<li \/>Has glamour-value, though opinions may differ on that score.\n<li \/>Has no illusions about her role. Is there as a cheer-leader for India.<br \/><b>Result:<\/b> Flop<\/ul>\n<p><b>Second Attempt &#8211; Mandira Bedi<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li \/>Has never been tested in an anchor role\n<li \/>Is often at a loss for words.\n<li \/>Knows nothing about cricket,  and makes her  nervous.\n<li \/>Has no glamour-value. She is a mediocre actresss, but she is a better actress than she is a looker. \n<li \/>Actually thinks that her role is to match word for word Srikanth&#8217;s and Charu Sharma&#8217;s incisive analyses (don&#8217;t laugh) knows that she can&#8217;t and that makes her sit there with a constipated look on her face.<br \/><b>Result:<\/b> What did they expect it to be?<\/ul>\n<p>I can imagine a sane man making a mistake the first time. But I guess that to  learn from your first mistake and make a bigger mistake the second time is beyond any single individual. It requires a committee of sane men.<\/p>\n<p><small><br \/>I am not being sexist by using &#8220;man&#8221;.  For obvious reasons, I can only imagine men making such a dumb decision. <br \/><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a case study waiting to be written on how a sane man can go through the following decision-making process: First Attempt &#8211; Ruby Bhatia Has been an anchor on MTV Has the gift of the gab. Knows nothing about cricket, but can use it to her advantage by asking basic questions in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}