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Fiscal centralisation
Should fiscal control be centralised or decentralised? There are arguments on both sides. For instance, as Brendan O’ Duffy writes in one of the essays included in Comparative Politics, edited by Judith Bara and Mark Pennington (www.sagepublications.com), rationalist institutionalists say that the chances of politicians and bureaucrats abusing their power are greater where fiscal […]
Finance & Accounting
Massive investments are needed for improving the infrastructure facilities at the level of urban local bodies (ULBs); and the ...
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you, advises a helpful quote of Andy Warhol addressed to those ...
Information Technology
Transforming data into insight, profitable decisions
As principles-based enforcement takes hold, senior management in capital market firms will have to develop the capability to demonstrate accountability over the outcomes and build auditable workflows, advises a new book authored by Sybase experts ( www.sybase.com). This will mean improving cooperation across business, technology, operations, risk management and CFO functions, write Raj Nathan, […]
Computers are language-neutral…
Your pick for the week. If you are a talented computer programmer, there is nothing to stop you from learning several computer languages and becoming ‘multilingual,’ encourages Richard Mansfield in Programming: A beginner’s guide ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “Some people excel at this, just as some find it easy to learn multiple human languages. Clearly, you’ll benefit […]
Management & Strategy
Bad employees tell on your bottomline What do you call those who are especially difficult, troublesome, or hard to work with? The answer is Bad Apples, as instructs the title of a book from Brette McWhorter and Terrence J. Sember ( www.vivagroupindia.com).
There is, however, no one picture of what a ‘bad apple’ is, the authors explain; these types of […]
A dead change in your office…
A lounge that is meant for leaders and managers is the venue for an evening meeting. All the suspects are to be gathered there at 7 pm, and the murderer is to be announced! Hey, where are we? In one of
the concluding chapters of Ken Blanchard’s ‘thriller’ titled Who Killed Change? (www.harpercollins.co.uk).
He describes the assemblage […]