DK Kapila The Oracle

  The Healthy (Fat) Man Stablisation Theory (THFMST)- Dinesh K Kapila This theory is quite interesting. I have arrived at this theory after some thought, mainly drawn from my own experiences and that of people of my own types. This will be understood as we go along. The lesson is why not just let things or events or a process just be, in equilibrium, in the state it is in, the way it is, the mode it has always been in, I think you get the drift. THFMST is thus a concept which states that we need not be constantly presuming that each decision requires a movement or a direction or movement or disruption, at times it should only be, let it just be. May be there is no need to even voice that let it just be, it should just be a process and understood as such. For example, long term investors need not be looking up   their portfolios consistently and making changes and incurring costs all the while, if it’s stable, let it be. Do not let every general observation or movement distur...

  Shipping Industry India – Low Profile   - Suggestions to Improve the Situation. Dinesh K Kapila Why has India neglected its merchant marine and the shipping sector. A nation of our size and ambition cannot simply presume that exports or cargo can be transported by any vessel under any flag. We should have had by now a few major shipping companies facilitating both forms of trade, coastal and non coastal. This gross neglect had caught us off guard now as shipping costs rise worldwide. A committee of experts from the government and industry must study the pain points preventing entrepreneurs from considering an entry in this sector or seeking headquarters outside India. The Policy framework  must facilitate investment and the upscaling of this sector. The Chambers of Commerce should also take this up. Alongside the ship building industry must be more efficient and productive. And taxation for seafarers should ideally be the same, whether sailing on foreign lines or Ind...

  Your Time will come – And Organisational Politics and all .                                                                  Dinesh Kumar Kapila This is how the game of life plays out. Including in our professions. A colleague, miles junior in age and obviously in hierarchy messaged me to say that his Departmental Head often stole his ideas. He said he did not mind, only with grace it could be stated that XYZ had suggested this course of action or interpretation. A couple of them rang up from far off offices to ask or rather sound me out, if what they were doing was in principle ok or logical, one was in a jam and wanted a way out. Being active on some platforms has...

  My Own Faith – How do we actually build up its essence and the faith.                                                    By Dinesh K Kapila   Mine is an age old religion (Sanatan Dharm / Hinduism), which has survived and largely retained its adherents through a long period of history. Evolving from the dawn of civilisation and surviving invasions, slavery, prejudices, it has stayed true to its core and philosophy. However, we seem to have lost our way. Is the core philosophy understood by the general adherents which follows the Sanatan Dharm or have they simply turned it into some rituals to be performed at a few specific times a year – festivals, death, birth, marriage, cursory random visits to temples etc. Maybe the odd p...

  Be Comfortable with Yourself Dinesh Kumar Kapila This is most important. As an individual, employee, Businessman, entrepreneur or as an organisation. Be comfortable means you know who you are, you know where you stand, you have an absolute clarity about your goals and plans, you know when to stay calm and ride out the tough times, you have the self confidence and maturity to accept yourself and then work on where you want to be. You can lie low when you need to refresh and recharge and rethink and then move on again. Maybe even to accept things as they are at times. This however eludes many. Thus come the grievances, blame games and even a victim hood syndrome in some. We have to assess ourselves and our goals and achievements and where we want to be. Nobody can do this for us. But escapism by way of not acknowledging your own centrality in the process is a path to waiting it out on the sidelines. This impacts organisations too, some just stagnate or struggle along. Blaming the o...

  Covid has been harsh on small business DK Kapila Today I got talking to the owner of a small busy operating out of a small shop. Highly successful with his multiple lines of small businesses- stationery, copy machine, printing, assignments etc. He has risen in life the hard way- building upon a ladder of small businesses on the outskirts before reaching Chandigarh and striking real success. The rent Rs 40000/- per month of the shop, two young employees Rs 17000/- a month plus his son chipping in. I discussed the current scenario. He said it was still to normalise as students on work from hone had limited needs. But it was improving. However the past eighteen months had been tough and he was constrained to sell off a floor on his small three story house. He planned to sell out completely now as he needed his own space. He said cash flows were nearly nil while rent electricity and credit terms within the trade remained what they were. He had to pay part salary to his employees too...