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  • Posted: Wed, May 14 2008. 12:07 AM IST

My money and my team

Mallya should realize that it is poor organizational strategy for the investor to directly pick the people who are to deliver results

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Vijay Mallya’s outburst against the two men who ran his Bangalore Royal Challengers team is partly right and partly wrong.
Mallya has quite correctly said that there is a business side to the Indian Premier League. He has paid big money to own a side and is naturally distressed to find it at the bottom of the league.
But, Mallya then argues that he should have had greater say in selecting the team. He should not have depended on Rahul Dravid and Charu Sharma. That’s where the flamboyant businessman is wrong.
Look at it as a business problem. The Bangalore team is a start-up. Mallya is venture capitalist. Dravid is the COO. Sharma was the CEO. Mallya should realize that it is poor organizational strategy for the investor to directly pick the people who are to deliver results. That’s a job best left to the CEO and COO.
Of course, the investor is well within his rights to sack the men he has appointed to lead. That’s what happens in business—and professional sports elsewhere.
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Danniel Said:


This is cricket, one team wins and another looses. There is nothing wrong in selecting Kallis or Shiv or Jaffer. Some time great players fail that happened with Kallis. About Shiv, he was in amazing form before the start of IPL does any one remember him scoring 10 runs in last 2 balls but he failed here so do Wright, Misubah. This is not a test team, may be they will come very strong next year. Even Hyderabad and Mumbai teams failed but they are not bad mouthing like you!

Posted On 5/14/2008 9:56:11 AM
Sorabh Said:


I think Mr. Mallya is making a bigger point here that his CEO and COO have failed to deliver the goods, and its his failure that he picked the wrong guys for these 2 top jobs.

Posted On 5/14/2008 10:35:20 AM
Balaji Said:


T20 is not about big scores, but about big shots. Better sense would be to go for players who can run like a cheetah, than those who gallop like a horse. Royal Challengers have a lot of horse power, but they lack the speed....

Posted On 5/15/2008 5:32:54 PM
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