Comments on: Do you know ‘Board’ Room Dancing?

By: rajesh bharwani

rajesh bharwani — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:48:22 +0000

good .extremely good

By: Rodinhood

Rodinhood — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:39:14 +0000

Absolutely. But he behaved differently with investors (who were on his board) and those he was pitching to. Read http://rodinhood.com/toughest-decision-life for another facet of GK.

By: Geoff Wright

Geoff Wright — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:25:42 +0000

This wasn’t my view of GK – instead I saw passion, fire, someone who you’d want running your business. Not someone who feared the VC’s.

By: Rodinhood

Rodinhood — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:22:44 +0000

In a way…but the chips are with the VC’s…all you have is a hand of cards )

By: Geoff Wright

Geoff Wright — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:20:37 +0000

So Alok – without going past the first sentence – you’d liken this to playing poker?

By: Rodinhood

Rodinhood — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:31:47 +0000

In my humble opinion, facts need to be told the way they are. If you dont tell them, someone else will. Dont hide anything.

By: Mircea

Mircea — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:26 +0000

“1 Indian (Gopala Krishnan (GK) – the CEO) and 2 Chinese (Peter Hua and an Observer from Softbank) were all screaming at each other simultaneously in German, Chinese and in Hindi (me telling GK to control himself)”

I don’t know what your relationship with GK is, but portraying him (the CEO of a company) — on the public internet, no less — as lacking self control is damaging and downright disrespectful.

Pretty useful post, otherwise.

By: Shilpa Maheshwari

Shilpa Maheshwari — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:06:55 +0000

Wonderful insights.

I must say that your previous blog”toughest decision….” was a walk down the memory lane for me.

By: Vinamra

Vinamra — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:22:01 +0000

As always Alok, brilliantly written with good analogies.