Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:44:48 -0400 From: Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com>
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. Mario responds: I'll be sure to let him know your perspicacious feedback, enhanced no doubt by one of Diageo's adult beverages:-)) Can't have one of our own sounding like Obama without his teleprompter:-)) Far better he sound like Bobby Jindal, who says what he means and means what he says and whose mouth is is perfect sync with his racing rain:-))
