March 7, 2014
Every large behemoth was once a startup. To manage the challenges of scale, organizations have to build norms and rules. Keeping the startup’s ethos of nimbleness is a leadership challenge.
February 22, 2014
Demographic dividend refers to the two or three decades when a country has more people who are young and in the working age-group. By 2020, India is set to become the world’s youngest country with 64 per cent of its population in the working age group. This is the time […]
January 18, 2014
Like many others I took my vacation at the year end to spend time with the family and to catch up with my reading list. My wife and I had warned our children that the hotel had told us that they did not have television. We were driving out very […]
December 3, 2013
This is the second year in a row I attended the India Inclusion Summit in Bangalore. I am left speechless and humbled at the spirit displayed by so many differently abled people, their families, teachers, employers and a host of entrepreneurs who are leveraging technology and design to make our […]
July 6, 2013
Newspapers appear the every morning with your tea cup. These days the newspaper only serves as a recap of yesterday’s event since you are more than likely to have already watched it on television the previous evening. Actually, even the television is not all that current. Twitter has nudged televisions […]
January 31, 2013
It was Singapore based HR consultant Tanvi Gautam’s idea to get a virtual community together and discuss how to use social media (SM) to upgrade the skills of employees. The idea was to experiment and see what we could learn from each other. We could ask questions and get answers […]
January 8, 2013
Human Capital magazine described Don’t Hire the Best as the “Bible of Hiring”. The December 2012 issue of the magazine carries the clips of a conversation I had with Sannita Chakraborty Saha. HC. Apart from being an HR professional of great caliber, you are also a writer? What drove you to […]
August 22, 2012
The Deccan Chronicle carried a review of Mediocre But Arrogant. The review was done by Anjana Basu who works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. Her poems have featured in anthologies published by Penguin India and Authorpress. Anjana Basu has worked on scripts with director, Rituparno Ghosh, for Antarmahal and […]
July 16, 2012
What makes a global leader effective? The Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) is a part of the Corporate Executive Board (www.clc.executiveboard.com). A leader with strategic, P&L or operational responsibilities across more than one country is a global leader according to them. I believe it has to do with the mindset. Does […]