Let me ask you something: When was the last time you heard a great story at work? You know, one of those “you won’t believe what happened” moments that had everyone gathered around the coffee machine laughing or nodding in recognition? I worked in a organization where every week there […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]