Monday, November 27, 2006

What are you paid to do Mr. Chappell

Gregory Stephen Chappell was born 8/7/1948. 58 years later he came to India and ruined Indian cricket. His coaching stint in India can be considered as a fine case study in ruining a successful team by arrogance, stupidity, inability to motivate a team and overall incompetence. He is being paid close to 2000K for coming up with stupid metaphors and finding irrelevant parallels from Business.

This guy doesn’t understand what a process is and how process is built and how they are improved. A process is evolved for achieving steadier results by analyzing achieved results. It is way of locking in achieved results; it brings consistency. Evolving a process starts from achieving results, then you figure out how you achieved it. Once you know how you achieved a result you have a process. On the other hand Chappell believes that blindly following a process evolved in a different environment will achieve results (When donkeys fly). Chappell is even trying to build Australian pitches in India. Going forward we can import Australian players, MP’s and beer (could not leave this out)

In chapels case informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate result (Scot Adams quote).(this is an irrelevant business parallel, I’m following in Chappell’s footsteps)


Chappell’s achievements so far,

  1. Ruined Indian team
  2. Got paid a lot
  3. Lot more perks
  4. Came up with few stupid analogies
  5. Taught politicians what they are paid for
  6. Still in the process of understanding what he is paid for
  7. No one has shot him so far

The other achievements are not that important in the cosmic scale of things.

Go ahead Chappell you still have time to do more damage.

2 comments:

Vineesh said...

i completely agree.

Shruthi Joseph said...

hey, fantastic observations, but feel you could have added more to the villain who spoiled the sport for us!! great work macha. Way to go!!