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Sarangapani Club – 99 Percent Syndrome

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Padma was very excited as she wanted to share with everyone about the lecture she heard in her office today. It was all about completing activities a hundred per cent. Roads are repaired but edges are not done and heaps of mud line up the sides of the road, construction of house is over but furnishing is going on for ever and IT projects, it sometimes takes a very short time to get to 99 per cent but the last 1 per cent probably takes 99 per cent of time. It is like a mountain trek where the last mile is the steepest.

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Saranagapani Club: Under Commit, Over Deliver

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One of those lazy days when nothing interesting was happening and Prabha was looking forlorn and lost. When quizzed, she opened up about how her marketing department was committing to unreasonable deadlines and the technical team has to struggle with delivery. Kingo, who worked in the marketing department, could not handle any criticism of his area of work. He exploded “That is the universal law. Our job is to get contracts and meet targets. If technical people cannot deliver, it is their problem. If we don’t get contracts, you won’t have projects to work.”

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Sarangapani Club: Merrimac Coup

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The Sarangpani club members were seated around their table, looking at the menu, wondering what to order. After ordering and initial pleasantries, the talk veered round to a deal that could have won them a crucial match. On both the tables, the contract had made. However, Padma had looked up the results on the other tables and found that the defense had prevailed on 3 of the 20 total tables the deal had been played.

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Sarangapani Club: Introduction

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Located in the Queen of suburbs (Bandra) in Mumbai, facing the Arabian Sea is one of the popular clubs frequented by middle aged people of all communities. It had an outstanding coffee shop which apart from serving your choicest beverage, offered a plethora of Mumbai’s street food – Bhel Puri, Pani Puri, Vada Pav, Mishal – name it and you could get it. The coffee shop was a regular weekend meeting place for many young and middle class working people. One had to reach the club early to get a nice sea facing seat and spend a couple of hours shooting the breeze.

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