Vistar Consulting

05/02/2017

1. Sensex zoomed by 486 points not for what budget had but for what it did not - like anticipated feared levels on capital gains & indirect FII gains and an increase in service tax to 18%. This was a relief rally.

2. Jaitley has failed fourth time on strategic sale of PSUs as well as sale of government stakes in private sector companies (SUUTI).

3. Jaitley has failed on his pledge to convert railways and ports into corporations.

4. Jaitley who had promised in 2014 to cut fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP in two years has postponed to do so twice in four years despite a bonanza from falling oil prices. That has made India lose credibility and made Moody's rate India as barely investment grade.

5. Jaitley's appointed Expenditure Management Commission of 2014 has sunk without a trace.

6. Jaitley had pledged to cut the corporate tax rate from 30% to 25% to help India compete with Asian neighbours with much lower rates. But he has granted this wish only to those with a turnover upto Rs.50 crores easily forgetting that these are not the companies typically competing with Asian neighbours.

7. Jaitley has lost a golden opportunity to convert demonetisation into a political winner. He could have put a few thousand crore rupees into each of 26 crore Jan Dhan accounts from uncashed high value note volume of Rs.30000 - Rs.45000 crore plus tax windfall from second VDS. This reduces both BJP's chances in the upcoming UP elections and the moral force of the crusade against black money.

8. Jaitley's proposed limit to the maximum cash donation to political parties from Rs.20000/- to Rs.2000/- can be easily evaded by increasing ten fold bogus entries of Rs 2000/- each.

9. Jaitley's proposed electoral bonds will become a way of holding black money since they will be bearer bonds as widely used by drug lords globally.

10. Jaitley's proposed new cash limit of Rs.3 lakh per transaction will come a cropper as tax payers will split large transactions into several transactions of Rs.3 lakh each.

11/01/2017

http://newsroom.nyenrode.nl/en/the-ajax-dilemma-lessons-from-ancient-times-on-moral-leadership-in-organizations/

Organization leaders face growing numbers of moral issues. For example: how do you develop justice in an organization so that everyone is treated fairly? Paul Woodruff, philosopher and Vietnam veteran, wrote an intriguing book: The Ajax Dilemma – how leaders deal with dilemmas and the moral dimensio...

11/01/2017

In 2000, Schultz made his first attempt to walk away from his company, only to return to Starbucks eight years later when it became clear that growth and profits were tailing off. In a tactful memorandum, he said that his successors had gone astray in a bid to streamline store design to meet financial goals. In fact, he wrote, the focus on financials had hurt the company because its shops “no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store.” The demands of the devil had drowned out the advice of the angel. Schultz set to restoring the quality and essence of the Starbucks experience, and soon restored profitability and growth, too.

Starbucks is but one example of how specialty retail on a vast scale has triumphed because of service design. Victoria’s Secret, IKEA, the Apple Store, Williams Sonoma, and others create a special experience their rivals can’t match — a combination of product offerings, physical design, and brand image that make customers feel that the store is theirs, even as it serves millions of others.

Indeed, when Schultz returned to Starbucks in 2008, it was because the essential customer experience he had envisioned and designed was on the verge of being lost. He kept his vision perking by taking steps to energize and engage the people who are responsible for bringing his design to life. In 2008, going back to basics, he ordered a three-hour shutdown of every store in the U.S. to retrain staff on coffee quality.

Seven years later, he took another action unprecedented for a massive food-and-beverage retailer: He invested in his front line. Starbucks offered full-time employees complete tuition reimbursement, up to the entire cost of a bachelor’s degree, for online courses at Arizona State University. Not only is this a significant benefit for his workers, the hope is that it will also fuel new ideas and new warmth in Starbucks stores.

Few have resolved the tension between identity and growth as masterfully as the coffee chain’s CEO.

11/01/2017

https://hbr.org/video/5278216527001/the-explainer-blue-ocean-strategy

Make the competition irrelevant.

30/12/2016

08/09/2016

Vistar Consulting mandated by its client to invite EOI from reputed companies, organisations, brands & institutions for signing up a lease agreement for its ready to move in 60000 sq.ft. facility in Kalyan built on an approx. 4 acre plot. This facility is located in a government certified no-flooding zone and is in close vicinity to Nasik highway and upcoming Tata Housing project. All those interested can please contact here or Vijay Chaturvedi & Smriti Chaturvedi for taking the matter forward !

07/08/2016

The genius of Sir Ken Robinson so profoundly explains what is wrong with the education system all over the world !!!

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

22/06/2016

Watch Sir Ken Robinson deliver a poignant talk on revolutionising "education". His narrative on a paradigm shift from industrialisation based education to agriculture based "organic" education strikes an immensely likeable chord with listeners. Vistar Consulting is proud to be associated with this paradigm shift call from Sir Ken Robinson to create schools which allow a child to be "him or her".

In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

09/04/2016

Team Vistar congratulates its Co-Founder, Co-Owner & Partner Smriti Chaturvedi for acquiring her new professional assignment of turning around the business at an exotic wellness destination in Delhi.
Her new assignment will be focused towards the broad objective of being responsible for P & L + Operations of the entire Unit including sales, revenue generation as per target, operational planning, manpower planning, identification of training needs and ensuring Systems & Processes are followed.
The assignment will encompass tasks & responsibilities ranging across financials, leadership, sales & marketing, guest relations, administration, planning, operations & training.
May this new start by her on the auspicious occasion of वसंत नवरात्र bring all success for her. Best of luck & Cheers :)

29/03/2016

Sir Ken Robinson on changing education paradigms !!!