Leadership
Peter Roebuck has a great article on the importance of captains in cricket. After watching the IPL this season, and of course, based on my own stupendous knowledge and experience of the game, I have a few observations to make. First, I think that you can write off the Mumbai Indians. I love Tendulkar the batsman. I don't think that there's any better that I have seen. But, he's a terrible captain. In the past few matches, he's been getting pretty much everything wrong. How can you not bowl out Bhajji's overs? And, in the last match against Delhi, when attack was their only chance, the field was too defensive. And his body language said that the game was lost before they started bowling.

Take another useless captain - KP. At least he was trying hard on the field, and never seemed to be disheartened. But, tactically, he was poor, to say the least. Why keep bowling Praveen Kumar at the death, when he was getting murdered? Why keep playing Uthappa, and in the same slot? When things are not going well, you've got to change tack. What a huge change Kumble has made!

Delhi is the strangest team of the lot. I don't think that Sehwag is a good captain - he's very aggressive, but doesn't know what to do when things don't go his way. However, they've been winning pretty much all the close games...

I'm sure that there are lots of lessons we can learn and apply in the business world.