Everybody’s changing the game these days

It is the title of a book by Ram Charan on innovation. In the US, Bloomberg has a weekly TV show by the same name. And everybody from the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to  Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has begun spouting it in recent weeks.

Say hello to the “game changers”.

The business buzzword is in much demand in the media too. “Game changers” was the cover line to mark the seventh anniversary of Time Out Mumbai last fortnight. And “game-changers” is the cover line of the latest issue of India Today.

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The barbs that resulted in a Rs 500 crore lawsuit

Udayan Mukherjee of CNBC-TV18 letting fly at rival channel “No. 4″, in other words Bloomberg, on the latter’s claims of its showing on budget day.

Bloomberg has now sued the CNBC-TV18 managing editor, but not his employers CNBC TV18, for a round figure of Rs 500 crore.

Mukherjee’s lawyers, clearly aurally challenged,  deny any “direct or indirect” reference to Bloomberg by their client.

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