Mentor Insights

Here’s a piece that will hopefully help demystify some of the above concepts for our mentees who are new to the world of equity capital-raising.

In the capital markets, for a public limited company, at the heart of value-creation lies the concern of risk-minimisation(of consistent profit reporting). A simplified formula that is...

Strategy is all pervasive. We may not be able to touch, see or feel it-but we can certainly sense the ourcomes of strategy and perceive tangible objects(products, services, processes, events) that have strategy, in one form or another, behind them.

The notion that Strategy is meant only for governments, military...

The timeline several years ago - My first visit to Stockholm, Sweden. The trip to the National Martime Museum and the Vasa Museum was to leave an indelible impression in my mind. Here I recount an approximate version of what I learnt about Vasa. Vasa is a warship that was built nearly 400 years ago, commissioned by King Gustaav the second, at...

I have always felt that creative thinking requires looking at the accomplishment of objectives without being constrained by resources. This requires simultaneous thinking at two levels. At one level, we conjure up an ideal space where we can accomplish objectives without any resource constraints. At another level, we deal with the reality where...

I have always felt that creative thinking requires looking at the accomplishment of objectives without being constrained by resources. This requires simultaneous thinking at two levels. At one level, we conjure up an ideal space where we can accomplish objectives without any resource constraints. At another level, we deal with the reality where...

Imagine you are in the kitchen and put a pressure cooker on. Now what
do you do while the food is getting cooked? It is very tempting to open
the pressure cooker and stir up things a bit to make things happen
faster, but alas; this very anxiety is going to slow things down.
Someone once said not to mistake activity with...

IN order to simplify life and handling business, we conveniently compartmentalise issues into Marketing, Finance, HR etc., Here is the idea : There are no Marketing problems or Finance Problems or HR problems......there are only Business Problems ! Why is this distinction important ? Because   senior managers and company founders/...

One of the debates companies usually have  is How much of what they produce should they outsource and how much should they retain inhouse ? In theory this may be an easy question to answer but in practice, it is a little harder.

In theory, the way to address this is to look at the various components and subsystems which go into...

What should an entrepreneur do when faced with the difficult situation or decision of either changing the way he has been running his business or closing down what he started with so much passion? Entrepreneurship is about creating a future, having a belief in it and making it happen. The conflict essentially arises when the future does not...

Purpose:This article examines the harmful effects of framing and suggests ways to improve decisions.

Design / Methodology / Approach: The paper uses a number of real life examples of catastrophic failures of decision making by obviously intelligent and experienced people and compares them with less dramatic but common errors of...

As a mentor, the first thing you need to learn is that you have to assure your mentee that you are in his corner. So never say, 'your company'. Always say 'our company'. You'll be surprised how much this helps in building trust.

Never tell a mentee 'I told you so!'. There are entrepreneurs who listen to your advice and go do exactly what they feel like, and god forbid if the result is not like they expected, more like you expected, be gracious enough to carry on without rubbing it in. Everyone has the right to choose and sometimes choices don't turn out the way you...