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Q. Mid-Day has a new editor. As someone who helped outsmart it with the now partly defunct Mumbai Mirror, what can the Jagran group to herald happier times?
A. Your question is very interesting and it can’t be answered within the framework of answers to questions that you ask here. I shall give it a sub-optimal try as I don’t have any visibility to some core data sets which have to be analysed before jumping onto a solution. After all, strategy formulation isn’t a an armchair prescription. Besides, it’s unfair to compare it with the imperatives of Mumbai Mirror where the contexts were very different and it was a set of actions that were relevant 19 years back. The world has changed dramatically since then and no strategic extrapolation is possible.
An Editor is a leader who has to implement the vision of the organisation and no amount of strategic homily could help him. One has to address four key sets of questions:
Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How do we reach there?
And how to win?
It’s doable with collective participation of all levels to make it happen.
I am always available to facilitate that journey—this is just a joke😂