When to start

• The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies.
• The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, sophistication and market acceptance.
• The best time to start is when the competition isn’t too far behind, because then you’ll spend too long educating the market.
• The best time to start is when everything at home is stable and you can really focus.

Tata’s Jaguar acquisition and Ferrari ride

in depth analysis on TATA acquistion of Ford’s Jaguar and Land Rover

Tata group which is responsible for India’s biggest foreign takeover, by acquiring the British steel company Corus through his Tata Steel business for £6.7bn earlier this year, is now reckoning for another big acquisition, this time for its automotive division. Tata Motors is in the early stages of evaluating a bid for the Jaguar and Land Rover reported British daily The Telegraph.. Ratan Tata is understood to have instructed advisers in the past fortnight to begin evaluating the merits of a joint offer for Jaguar and Land Rover, which have been earmarked for disposal by struggling American car giant Ford. People close to the situation last night said that Tata Motors’ evaluation of a bid was at an “exploratory” stage and may not lead to a formal bid for the two brands. One person familiar with the position said that Tata Motors had signed a confidentiality agreement with Ford in recent days. .Besides Tata, other car makers from middle east and eastern car manufacturers may be interested in bidding, while a formal auction would also be likely to attract private equity firms such as Apollo, Blackstone and Cerberus ( theUS buyout firm which acquired Chrysler earlier this year for $7.5bn).

Bhagavad Gita…!

The Bhagavad Gita, more commonly known as the Gita, is part of the Itihaas scriputre Mahabharata.  It is an extremely popular scripture.If the Upanishads can be compared to the cow, the Gita is their milk. It is in the form of a dialogue between Lord Sri Krishna and the mighty Pandava warrior Arjuna.

Your Mind: Full of Certainties vs. Full of Doubts

Imagine a scale of mind states with two extremes. At one extremity there is a state of mind full of certainties, at the other one a state full of doubts. And between these two extremities there are another three states of mind: the first one in which predominant are certainties but doubts are present too, the second one in which predominant are doubts but certainties are present too and finally the third in which certainties and doubts are in a relative equilibrium.

The two extremities exist only in theory, in real world is very hard if not impossible to find an individual whose mind is full only of certainties and no doubt at all or vice versa. Even an individual with a mind at an absolute equilibrium, between certainties and doubts, is hard to find. The majority of us fall in one of the other two categories: the first one in which predominant are certainties and the second one in which predominant are doubts.

Software Engineering Humor

A software engineer, a hardware engineer and a department manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside.

The car’s occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?

“I know,” said the department manager, “Let’s have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way.”

“No, no,” said the hardware engineer, “That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I’ve got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car’s braking system, isolate the fault, fix it and we can be on our way.”

“Well,” said the software engineer, “Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again.”