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Does Lara have any success away from the pitch

 
cricketmygame 2015-03-04 13:41:39 

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WI_cricfan 2015-03-04 14:08:45 

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You know more about business than most of dem. What's more you een hungry (like most of dem).

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Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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these two just do not compute

 
WestDem 2015-03-04 16:33:44 

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Success at forcing fellow team mates into retirement count? lol lol lol

 
allan 2015-03-04 16:39:35 

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I thought I heard someone say he 'manages' several successful business enterprises..

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2015-03-04 17:41:00 

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Success at forcing fellow team mates into retirement count?


Could count as motivation big grin big grin

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2015-03-04 17:42:00 

In reply to allan

I thought I heard someone say he 'manages' several successful business enterprises..


Buying and renting houses is sort of a business

 
Scar 2015-03-04 18:14:14 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan And it have a good bit on international business law to understand too

big grin

 
Scar 2015-03-04 18:16:52 

In reply to allan

A couple a rum shops and small bakeries is sorta business too you know- man have to eat and drink so constant success there



big grin

 
brians_da_best 2015-03-05 09:59:40 


Famously aloof, but remarkably entrepreneurial, Lara realised he could kill many birds with one stone by hosting massively hyped Carnival parties at his Chancellor Hill mansion in Trinidad. He is the type locals would call a Carnival baby, and he knew that people would pay handsomely to say they had been to his house and partied up close to him

Those events were such a success that he soon extended his Carnival spirit to the mid-year Crop Over in Barbados, where he hosts similar ones at his Ebworth Plantation in St Peter. His annual fetes have become calendar musts for the socially mobile, and take a sizeable chunk of his time. That’s part of the post-cricket image that Lara has invested in heavily as he seeks to reposition himself and to ensure that he loses none of the opportunities offered by his fame as a batsman.

Read the original article here:http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-100/brian-lara-legend-his-own-lifetime#ixzz3TWW52sHa


About five years ago, together with friends, he set up the Lay Management Group to organise such events, intending it to fund not just the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation (in memory of his deceased parents), but to help young athletes as well. Party management entered his portfolio readily – he’d been doing it for years while still active in cricket – but it has grown, as has the range of his activities.


At 40, Lara is much more than a retired cricketer. He still endorses products like bmobile telecommunications and Angostura’s LLB in Trinidad and Tobago, but he has found ways to weave his cricket celebrity into affiliations that project him as a role model for youth. He is an adviser to the University of Trinidad and Tobago, where he graces many of their sporting programmes with his presence and inspirational words to students.


link

 
bobby 2015-03-05 10:52:31 

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Success in what? Management? Business? What success does Cameron have? What about Hunte who was a Diplomat who followed the instructions of his Government?
What about Wes Hall?
Look at ALL the Directors of the WICBandits and ask that question.

 
cricketmygame 2015-03-05 11:25:56 

In reply to bobby

and all of them were one failure after the other

 
tc1 2015-03-05 11:32:17 

Hall was a minister in Barrow/ Sandi gov't .

I don't think if he was not successful the Dipper would kept him around.

 
doublecentury 2015-03-05 11:32:58 

Ken Gordon was a former CEO of a successful caribbean wide public company and a former cabinet minister. He certainly struggled with the governance of wicb and was unable to implement any reforms with respect to board appointments.

Without significant structural reform to break the parochial control of territories no president is likely to succeed.

Nobody should serve on wicb and a territorial board at the same time and the majority of directors should be independent not delegates of territories..

 
camos 2015-03-05 11:33:22 

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Hunte was reported to own Insurance business in his country.

 
camos 2015-03-05 11:36:15 

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staging an event does not equate to success (financial) ,why not give us some figures?

 
brians_da_best 2015-03-05 12:17:12 

In reply to camos

Don't think figures are in the piblic domain, but lara is rich.

And don't forget LAY, the company he started with Dwight. They turnover a lot

 
nissan 2015-03-05 12:45:18 

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Hall was a minister in Barrow/ Sandi gov't .

I don't think if he was not successful the Dipper would kept him around.


Barrow died in 87, so he would have only had a year with Hall at most.

Re business credentials, I believe "Butch" Stewart would struggle with the present West Indies Board structure.

 
tc1 2015-03-05 13:12:00 

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my reference was to state that Hall had some form of managerial experience

I agreed, even Buffet, Gates and the POINT will have trouble with this organization.

even the miracle worker from Galilee lol lol lol

 
Kay 2015-03-05 13:29:37 

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Don't think figures are in the piblic domain, but lara is rich.

Really? How rich?
And don't forget LAY, the company he started with Dwight. They turnover a lot

How much is a lot?

 
allan 2015-03-05 14:46:45 

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if Lara was ever given a board apt, he will probably do worse than Hunte and Cameron..

He will appoint Dwayne or Pollard as VC in the test team to Ramdin... and create a bigger cabal in the team than current..

 
Scar 2015-03-05 17:41:39 

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Dude Hunte grew a small shipping business into a large one with caribbean affiliates, also ran a law firm and understands both business and criminal law, also owns a construction and hardware parts business since the 70s, has been a Lloyds and Royal Insurance affiliate for over 50 years. Has had between 75- 100 people under his employ and the old ones still getting their pensions. Why would one question his business experience in both law and administration regardless of his few mistakes if any at WICB? They guy first learned his craft after law school on london before most of us were born.

 
Scar 2015-03-05 17:45:51 

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WICB is totally a political entity fronting as a sports franchise. Listen I ran budgets and staff and departments handling 40 times WICB revenue and expenses and I couldnt sort that nuthouse out. Well I could but.... big grin

 
Scar 2015-03-05 17:48:39 

In reply to doublecentury

You got that right! WICB needs to be scrapped and rebuilt as a modern day franchise.

 
emrmike 2015-03-05 18:50:30 

In reply to Kay

The question is not how much, but "any success" and based on some of the replies the answer is obviously YES.

 
Kurt 2015-03-06 00:26:54 

Is success "away from the pitch" relevant to managing the product "on the pitch"?