Category: Opinion
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Dhammika Perera, Warren Buffett, and the SriLankan Airlines Paradox :-When Talent Cannot Overcome Structural Failure
Recently I watched a lawmaker in Parliament suggesting that Dhammika Perera should be appointed CEO of SriLankan Airlines, which prompted me to write this opinion. There is a difficult but unavoidable truth that Sri Lanka must confront: the Government of Sri Lanka should not be running commercial businesses, especially in a complex, competitive, capital intensive