As a Goan I have to be proud of Ivan Menezes as I was of Victor Menezes. Diageo and Citibank are no piddling corporations.
But I must say that Ivan Menezes needs to expand his vocabulary ever so slightly. Every answer to the questioner need not have started with "In this environment". Surely there are adequate substitutions like: Under these conditions In this economic climate Given the current circumstances With these corporate compulsions etc Of course granted that Ivan Menezes is not expected to be a TV star, he could still have answered the Bloomberg interviewer with more transparency and plain-vanilla facts that could have worked to his advantage, rather than the easier and more common corporate-speak he employed. -- Roland Francis http://roland-torontogoan.blogspot.com +1 (416) 453.3371 On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mario Goveia <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a recent business interview with Ivan Menezes, CEO of adult beverage > giant Diageo, and younger brother of Victor Menezes, retired Senior Vice > Chairman of Citigroup who currently Chairs the American India Foundation, a > nonprofit American organization that is devoted to accelerating social and > economic change in India. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVlQ3PvKDhk
