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See the greatness of the IPL (Indian Premier League), how highly it stands among other sporting events, which has already provided us so much drama before the play has actually begun. It is in the news all over, flashing here and there, and catching eyes of all. Media is so much excited! After all, everybody was so much bored to see bald-headed Headley and evil-smiling Rathore’s face every day at the breakfast. IPL has provided the idle-sitting cricketers something to chirp about, write columns and give fancy statements in the media. It has given some freshness to the Pakistani people who had all got bored burning effigies of the US and the Taliban. It has given Pakistani ministers something to brag about and divert attentions from more serious issues. continue

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When it comes to Formula 1 – three things are discussed to death – Huge money, cutting edge technology and glamour. Clearly, for a new team, it would take years to come to terms with the big spending giants like Ferrari, McLaren, Toyota, RedBull etc. However, Force India has done the unthinkable by earning their first podium within only a year and a half (around 30 races) continue

Cut to October 2007 - The first ever T-20 World cup was going to be held in South Africa. Folks in England and South Africa were harping about this new format of cricket called Twenty -twenty which the BCCI wise men had not woken up to. If anything, they were looking at T20 with caution – the between-overs commercial breaks were going to get reduced – from 99 to 39! That certainly couldn’t be good from a revenue standpoint. So, they rested the big 3- Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid. However, time had something else in mind – India won the world cup under a brand new captain, and that started it all … T-20 as a format was here, and here to stay. The rest – ICL, IPL, player auctions, IPL-2 etc – is history thats documented to death all over the internet, so no point mentioning that again. continue

MS Dhoni is young. He has been a captain for about 2 years. And he s already made his mark. Dhoni has all the makings of a reactive leader. Who is a reactive leader? And what is reactive leadership? Let us analyze with Dhoni as the example. continue

(We at Strat.in welcome our newest contributor, Arun KS. Arun is an alumnus of IIM-Calcutta, is a huge sports fan, specializing in EPL, UEFA and F1. His stay at IIM-C was marked by his attempts at Genocide during his stint as the Mess Representative of the Old Hostel, and winning several Marketing contests) continue

(The article is submitted by Pritish Khale- an extremely passionate follower of Formula 1 racing. We thank him for his article about the return of Michael Schumacher.  Its filed in reflections section – where we post articles which are different from our strategy or business section.)     Can you believe it? Almost everyone is talking about it. The information media is going bonkers about it. The pundits have already done SWOT analysis of it. Ever since He made the official announcement yesterday, everyone is going ga-ga about it. At the end of the day, what matters most is that He is back. Yes, it may be only for the remainder of the season but Michael Schumacher is back at the wheels of His beloved Ferrari. continue

As a fan of Indian Cricket, it was hugely disappointing to see what happened at the World Cup. The team has failed on all fronts – batting, bowling and fielding. The team which was joint favorite at the start of the tournament along with SA has literally fallen apart in the space of 100 highly forgettable hours for Indian cricket. So, what went wrong? Here’s my take – continue

Shantan, who joined our team a few days back, has now brought in his second post. You can check his previous post here

Leadership?

Aah!! Thats the word we keep hearing in management jargon all the time.
Every CEO in the corporate world talks about it, and every interview in a business magazine is sprinkled with the words. continue

Strat.in welcomes yet another new blogger. Meghbartma Gautam is a 10 month old newbie in the corporate world as an SDE with Microsoft India. He graduated from NIT D in 2008 and is a passionate writer. He has been writing since he was 4 years old and loves poetry, parody and poco stories (poco being Spanish for Small). He speaks 5 languages and has been involved in all iterary activities even chairing the Clubs in School and College. He will be writing on all eclectic things under the Sun with a healthy dose of humour to boot. His current blog is under development at meghbartma.com. continue

Strat.in welcomes Shantan Rao, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is a passionate blogger and writes on a variety of topics. His interests in writing lie around learning real world lessons or deriving inspiration from the world of sport, Google and its great business model, ecommerce strategies, and management breakthroughs. He also has a personal blog that was ranked as high as no 9 on the internet in the humour category. continue