IPL lessons

'On the other hand, Vijay Mallya looked like the sorest and biggest loser of all. Sure, he views the whole game as a business venture, is upfront about wanting to be best, win best. But he should have saved the harsher words for the locker room and avoided demeaning his employees in public. And there’s a reason these contracts are for three years — building strong teams does not happen overnight. Mallya did, however, effectively leverage his brand name and millions of Indians will never swig his whisky again without thinking of a poor, scorned Rahul Dravid and the micromanaging “I told you so” Mallya. '

- S.Mitra Kalita; 'IPL lessons for the office'.