Comments on: Namrita Khandelwal

By: Cunsultant

Cunsultant — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:47:18 +0000

Fuck you guys, McKinsey rocks!

By: Bluepine

Bluepine — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:40:17 +0000

After all, everything boils down to leadership. Everybody likes to talk good and hear good. Very few likes to take risk and challenges for a big change.

By: Bluepine

Bluepine — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:35:04 +0000

This post is another episode that vindicates my claim in one of my posts that we Bhutanese, exemplified by our no less than PM, have the tendency to grossly underestimate the potentials of our fellow country mates. There are lots of qualified people in Tourism and in other agencies (sya Department of Forests) who can do far better than McKenzie’s amateur employees. There are people in DoF who have worked and studied on tourism as much as TCB people have. Note, there are people who have done their PhD on tourism. Why not make use of them. Why not make them show the worth of the expenses incurred on them.

By: ??????

?????? — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:56:32 +0000

I know this i kind of a really late response. Having read what is available on the ‘Mckinsey’, it seems very similar to the what the people’s project is all about. Maybe I am mistaken on this and if I am, forgive my ignorance.

having said that, I agree that maybe a team of our well educated Bhutanese persons could have done this.Too late though to pass comments. We reap the fruits of the seeds we sow! Live with it!

By: Drup

Drup — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:37:09 +0000

Mckinsey! Who selected them in the first place? I was in a discussion with them one day and what they had to say was uncertain and crap.
As a Bhutanese, I was ashamed to “agree” to their “crape” coz they are “consultants” to the Royal Government of Bhutan.
Congradulations Mckinsey, you are never short of convincing words and well cooked crape. Well who decided to select them anyway?

By: sithartha

sithartha — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:39:51 +0000

Why did we get in the mess in the first place? Why didn’t the government keep it simple so that any ammendments can be cost efective? Why Mckinsey to teach us how to manage our country? This is contrarary to our GNH philosophy. 9 million dollars down the drain which could be used to educate Bhutanese people or build hospitals. The government forgot such fundamental issues. Keep Bhutan as Bhutan and not bring it down to dumps.

By: Tree hugger

Tree hugger — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:40:05 +0000

Government should immediately replace those “life-threatening” pool vehicles, instead of spending huge sum of money on Mckinsey and Co. Service delivery and smooth functioning of government offices, especially the field offices, are severely hampered and impeded by very old conditions of pool vehicles. Government should recall all old vehicles and provide new ones at the soonest possible to expedite delivery of services to the people.

By: truth

truth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:15:38 +0000

I don’t think it is right to discriminate someone based on their age. Most brilliant minds start at very young age.
I think we in Bhutan are so used to 50 year old , class 8 graduates occupying senior positions, we don’t like when someone young and qualified offers new ideas.
There some people in the world, that becaome billionaire in their twenties. Even Bill Gates, became worlds richest man when he was in his thirties. So never under estimate someone just because they are not your average 50 year old class 8 passed minister from Bhutan.

By: Bhutanese Blogger

Bhutanese Blogger — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:37:08 +0000

@chhophyel

Neither are we talking about apples and oranges nor are we dwelling in the past – the issue is very relevant even if the tariff is raised.

Never mind – it disappoints me when people make claims but aren’t able to answer straight simple questions and resorts to techniques which obfuscate the whole issue.

Anyway pleasure reading your ideas.

By: chhophyel

chhophyel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:51:36 +0000

@bhutanese blogger-various obvious reasons we are not going to agree on anything, we are going to talk about apple and orange anyways. Let us not dwell on the past, now government is going to increase the tourist tariff not to reduce it. Period. By now anyone should be able to define target market and at the expense of others time I don’t think we need to get into all the technical terms etc. Reference to apple products, I know what apple product is how innovative they are, by all means apple freaks are going to purchase the product no matter what. however, what I said was that even companies like sony or apple uses selling tactics called ‘Scarcity.’ Next, I am not contradicting my views, I believe joining WTO will help us more than it will hurt us,we will have equal if not stronger bargaining chips should there be any international disputes. I thought we should weed out the options, not simply think about what others are saying or believe in the misconception about WTO. We are all making our opinions based on general assumptions. We don’t know the government plans for next 10 years, what areas are we trying to expand, certainly various factors will cause sidekicks in accession to WTO. Nothing is impossible if we implement policy with care. I am interested to hear PM’s justification to why he is torn between ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ to WTO. I am also very much inclined to know the position of oppostion party about WTO. We need to look at both parties ideas on the table, otherwise, we all are simply barking the wrong tree. Adious fellas!