On the winning front

20 September 2004

A sneak preview of Harsha Bhogle's discussion with Niall Booker, CEO, HSBC India and Rahul Dravid on 'Masterstrokes' to be telecast on CNBC-TV18 tomorrow

This week's episode of Masterstrokes, CNBC-TV18's fusion of business with sports, features Niall Booker, Group General Manager and CEO, HSBC India, and a former county cricketer in the UK, and Rahul Dravid, vice-captain, Indian cricket team, with Harsha Bhogle, cricket commentator moderating the show.

Booker claims that this episode features two Scotsmen, since Dravid had played for Scotland in 2003.

To be telecast at 8:30 pm on September 21, 2004 (with a repeat telecast on Sunday September 26 at 9:30 pm), Masterstrokes will focus on the turnaround, something that both guests know fairly intimately. Harsha will be querying the two participants on the process of turning teams around, since when a team requires a turnaround, it is assumed that there has been a failure at some point. There are two ways of failure — one way is to boost the moral of the team and get it back to where it was and the other is to analyse the causes of the failure.

The following excerpt of the show, is an exclusive to domain-b:

Harsha Bhogle: Is failure sometimes a better teacher than success, Niall? I think it was Bill Gates who said once that success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking that they cannot loose.