Wanted: 3 Leaders

1 kot MSM (Muvman Sinksu Morisyin) parski apre dis banane depi ki lin erit lidersip parti soley Pravind pe kont lor so papa pu fer en zafer ki en presidan pa sipoze fer: remont lor kes savon.

1 kot Ptr (Parti Transfiz Ramgoolam) parski Navin usi pe enkor kont tro buku lor so papa pu li kontinye gagn kat motosiklet divan loto ki nu don li pu al promne partu. Li pa interese et kon regle ban problem ki importan pu moris.

1 kot MMM (Muvman Manzer Mamba) parski telman Paul pe fer ban militan manz mamba semen apre semen ki ena militan fin aret ekut solda lalit militan: zot pe santi zot buku pli alez avek Mambo No. 5.

Why Alex Ferguson is Still on the Pitch

Because his wife Cathy didn't want a retired Scot in the kitchen bothering her. T Mag has an interesting portrait of Sir Alex this week. You don't want to miss it.

N.B: I am a Liverpool Fan.

Ramgoolam Can Do Plenty With Paper-Thin Majority

He just have to take a look at what was achieved by the Labour Party between December 1976 and June 1982. Of course at that time the leadership of the MLP knew how to assemble strong and dissenting teams that could be trusted with a schedule.

Something which has eluded Navin Ramgoolam until now.

Manu 1 Point Away From Premier League Record

Winning 19 titles that is or one more than current record-holder Liverpool. For sure money plays a role in winning titles but you still need an outstanding manager to assemble million-pound purchases into a great side. And a hungry Alex Ferguson has been doing this consistently over the past many years. There is a depth in United's bench that is simply amazing.

Another place where you can see this is in Apple's leadership: although there is a risk that Steve Jobs may not return from medical leave the company he built is unlikely to crash overnight. He has recruited enough obsessed talent to keep it going for a long time.

Here too we had someone with an extraordinary ability to build strong teams: Seewoosagur Ramgoolam.

To Pa Get Along Ek Rama?

That's what he gently asked when I turned around after feeling his hand on my shoulder. It's April 30, 2006 around 16h at Chebel and the Prime Minister has just finished paying his respect to the former General-Secretary of the Labour Party. He's asking this because the third edition of a newsletter I had started in September 2005 had been making some waves. It had even been published in a daily. In it I was essentially asking that Sithanen be replaced as Finance Minister because he had done nothing in the first 10% of the mandate that started on July 3, 2005.

"Se pa ki mo pa get along ar li. Li pe misrid la sitiasion." I answered. "Par egzanp so Triple External Shocks la fos terib". "Ah bon?" a stunned Ramgoolam said. There was a little pause and then he asked me to "avway mwa en papie lor la".

That was kind of easy to do because the next edition of the newsletter I happen to be working on dealt precisely with that fallacy. So I rapidly repackaged the ideas into a short letter and faxed it to the PM a few hours later.

Ogilvy Quote Highlights Difference Between Ramgoolams

The first and third Prime Ministers of Mauritius that is. Here's what the ad maverick had to say:

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each one of us hires people who are bigger than we are Ogilvy and Mather will become a company of giants."

Read about that and a lot more when you order his must-have book by clicking on the image below.

 

Guarantees in Politics

They are as likely to be honoured as hyenas promising one morning to become vegetarians or Nosferatu suddenly announcing that he prefers soya milk to haemoglobin. It is funny that the last time such a guarantee was offered the political landscape was almost identical: Ramgoolam was PM and he was made to believe that Federation I was dead. The person offering the guarantee was to get to hole up at Le Reduit had Labour won the 2000 elections.

Surprisingly, Ramgoolam's strategy at that time didn't include some basic scenario planning that would have allowed him to carry on with his mediocre style of leadership for another 5 years. I am not too sure he has gotten any wiser since then. Anybody for some game theory?