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Anecdotes

How to convert a CEO into a stenographer?

Answer: Make him a Director on a Tata Company Board !

Bhaskar Bhat,MD of Titan, is hugely respected in the industry for his professionalism and integrity.

He also serves on the Board of Tata Chemicals where the following incident took place:

Tata Chemicals Board Meeting appears to have been a dramatic affair. A handwritten note was circulated by Bhaskar Bhat, a director on the board of Tata Chem, asking Mistry not to chair the board meeting.

Bhat instead asked Wadia to chair it. “Bhat was asked by the board to move a formal resolution for removal of Mistry since he was appointed by the board. Bhat refused. He insisted his note be taken on record. But he refused to sign the handwritten note,” said a person close to an independent director.

“The directors told him, ‘This is an unsigned piece of paper dictated to you. You (Bhat) are just the stenographer. If you feel so strongly about what you have submitted, then move a resolution’,” said the person quoted earlier.-from ET

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Links

Linkfest: November 14,2016

Wishing readers on the occasion of Gurpurab

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Penny stocks may come under long term cap gains (Mint)

Modi: Benami properties,gold next (BS)

Dear PM, the buck stops with you (Tamal)

Full Text of Cyrus Mistry’s latest statement (Quint)

A Ctrl+Alt+Del moment for the markets (Aarati Krishnan)

Emerging markets are down but not out (Bloomberg)

10 Things to know about UDAN aviation scheme (MyInvestmentIdeas)

Social Media Confundere (Prashanth)

You are not Stanley Druckenmiller (CS)

The psychological keys to investing success (Forbes)

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TopClicks

Top Clicks on Alpha Ideas This Week

Here are the most clicked on items this week on Alpha Ideas :

RBI dismisses rumors of chip enabled 2000 Rs Notes (AI)

ICICI Research: Two Micro Caps (RJ)

That sound was Modi killing Black Money (AI)

Modi may reap $45 Billion budget gain (Bloomberg)

Portfolio of Motilal Gopilal Oswal (AI)

Is 2016 like 1978? (AI)

Stock Talk:Walchand PeopleFirst (IdeasWithConviction)

Why Mumaikars bought gold all night (Teekhapan)

John Kapoor-The Indian Billionaire nobody has heard about (Forbes)

How PM Modi kept his black money masterstroke a secret (ET)

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Links

Weekend Mega Linkfest: November 11,2016

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Spoof:Trump united every American Intolerance (The Onion)

The amazing story of India’s first rocket launch (BI)

A Journey through Venezuela (New Yorker)

The plot to murder Gawker (Vanity Fair)

Sports:Quintuple Anvil Triathlon (NYTimes)

How one man robbed Las Vegas’ biggest Casino (Rolling Stone)

Travelogue:A week in Austria (Team BHP)

Goodbye Arnab Goswami (For Now) (Great Bong)

The Intellectual, yet Idiot (Nassim Taleb)

The choices you make today will be your biography tomorrow (Altucher)

How Devi Ahilyabai Holkar reignited cultural ethos (Creative India)

Steven Cohen model of making Billions is losing its appeal (FT)

Cassie set to become fastest person to visit every country (T&L)

Travel Food & Drink Apps (Nat Geo)

Gossip:How Abhishek Verma closes defense deals (FS)

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Modi: Be Calm and Don’t Panic

Posted in the Public Interest

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