This is from my column in Times of India dated April 9-2025 He was impatient and skipped the niceties and the coffee and came c=straight to the point. He started with a volley of questions, “I joined this firm eighteen months back. Is it the right time for me to […]

Ten years ago, digital payments were still considered “alternative. ” Today, they’re the new normal — and by 2030, they’ll account for nearly 80% of global e-commerce. Wallets, account-to-account (A2A) payments, buy now pay later (BNPL), and even crypto are rewriting the rules of how money moves. What started as […]

Tim Harford wrote about this in theFT Magazine of 19th April 2025. In 1978, the crew of a dredger found a chain at the bottom of a canal while carrying out some repair work. Someone suggested that they should attach the chain to the anchor of the dredger and pull […]

When cinema first transitioned from silent films to talkies, directors struggled. They filmed movies as if they were just capturing a play—static cameras, actors enunciating as if the audience was in the last row of a theater. It took creative rule-breakers to realize that the camera could move, zoom, and […]

I predict that Adrian Brody will win the Oscar tonight for his role in The Brutalist. When I watched the film I thought this was a film about how to be resilient in the face of terrible setbacks. Adrian Brody’s career is a testament to resilience, reinvention, and long-term thinking. […]

I have spent time in L&D teams in different organizations as an employee and as a consultant. If you have a Corporate L&D team, you know how they will hound you to complete the “mandatory training”. If upskilling is such a priority, then why has this competitor been winning for […]

Estee Lauder is a name synonymous with perfumes. Her success comes from understanding human psychology to build a brand. “Estée Lauder’s playbook – understand human psychology, create an experience, and make your weakness your strength. She would use the same strategy again and again to build a multi-billion-dollar empire. ” […]

Ever wondered why employees trust Glassdoor , Blind , and Reddit, Inc. more than their own HR department? Or why leadership development programs always have to prove ROI, while compliance training gets an automatic green light? Or why HR still struggles to build employer brands, even though Marketing has been […]