Lessons to be learnt from Tata sacking Cyrus Mistry

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When Ratan Tata talked of “intolerance” rising in the country - at the Founder’s Day function of a public school? - he was certainly not referring to what was brewing in the corporate empire that he presided over till a few years ago.

Even in hindsight? - it could not have been a diversionary tactic. As the media went on an overdrive trying to interpret the political import of a generally apolitical Tata’s statement and was busy reporting the feud in the ruling political family of Uttar Pradesh? The young chairman of Tata Sons, appointed less than five years back with much fanfare, was removed unceremoniously in a bloodless boardroom coup.

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