Moonballs from Planet Earth

Mario Miranda's Goa Suppose people from a poor third world country were given the option of being citizens of a rich first world country...

Surtur straddles the ruins of Asgard as Thor and Hela face off "Asgard is not a place. Asgard is a people." But is it?  Woul...

Ben Bernanke, Mervyn King and D Subbarao ought to play more Monopoly. That would teach them a thing or two about the perils of an expans...

Allow congressmen to vote in private. This isn’t my idea. I’m channelling the noted political philosopher, Sir Humphrey Appleby. Sir Hu...

This picture of Mark Zuckerberg’s wedding with Priscilla Chan was one of the few truly heart warming images from the last few weeks. Thi...

"Because the upside to disbelief is too small." Zigackly. I picked this gem up from Michael Lewis' hilarious new book, B...

I am in the market for a new bag. Nothing special, just a simple duffel bag for everyday use. The one specific feature I want is an optic ye...

I was presenting at a business conference last month, and started my piece with this home-edited five minute clip from a favourite 90s film,...

I generally review books after I have read them, but I'm posting about Red Plenty when its still in my Amazon shopping basket. I heard a...

Amy Chua's fifteen minutes of fame are almost over. The Tiger Mother story has played itself out as a news item. Yet, after having read ...

" I started my management career in a backward village in Etah, Uttar Pradesh . I lived in the village, as one of the local people, try...

Had stopped by at the Madras Crocodile Bank recently. The overwhelming impression I came away with was one of plenty. Plenty of crocs, pile...

Came across this story in the New Yorker, a profile of a liberal Iranian economist called Mohammed Tabibian. Has stayed in memory because I...

Here's the theory on people who work for a bank and blog for fun. Do they think of themselves as bankers or bloggers ? It boils down to ...

Being an omnivore is a winning strategy for bears and boars. Does the same logic work for business corporations? Most management thinkers li...

I finally discovered why Mushtaq Ahmed, the Pakistani leg spinner, was so much more successful bowling for Sussex than any other team. Angus...

Found a interesting natural experiment on culture at my workplace. As a manager, my approach to working hours has always been laissez faire....

Where does culture come from? I found myself arguing on my blog that culture is a given. More specifically, that corporate cultures are dete...

Start with first principles. Intellectual property right (IPR) laws exist to increase the stock of knowledge in the public domain. Giving in...

I'm seriously back-logged at work after a day out water skiing, a night out camping and a night out for the summer ball...all company ev...