July 17, 2026
Your best people aren't lazy, they're just too busy to think. They settle for "good enough" because they have no time to pause. Here's the habit one company built into every single meeting to fix it.
July 7, 2026
Roger Federer did not just play tennis better than everyone else. He made everyone else feel they were playing a different sport. The Day Pete Sampras Knew In 2001, Pete Sampras was the greatest tennis player alive. Seven Wimbledon titles. Fourteen Grand Slams. He had seen every opponent imaginable. Then […]
June 28, 2026
Albert Einstein did not get the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. The check of $1.2 million for the expires after 12 months. The prize is never given posthumously. Why Gandhi never won the Peace prize. Why Freud did not win ... Full of trivia this piece was first written on October 11-2010. Updated in June 2026
June 26, 2026
You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses AI.” It sounds logical. It may be the wrong bet. The most dangerous career advice circulating right now is this: learn AI tools or become irrelevant. You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses […]
June 17, 2026
Power isn't a personality trait reserved for the bold and the loud.
It's a skill. A learnable, practiceable, improvable skill.
And the people who refuse to learn it don't become more virtuous for it.
They just become invisible.
June 16, 2026
There is a word you need to know. It comes from Urdu, Hindi, and Persian. It is spelled h-u-n-a-r. Hunar is pronounced the way it looks. And once you understand what it means, you will never think about your career, your talent, or your own potential in quite the same way again.
May 29, 2026
Our talent systems were designed for a world of abundant talent. Talent is routinely discarded after use. Retain, Retrain, Return and Reimagine are the four pillars of the circular economy.
May 15, 2026
The servers do not get thirsty. The citizens do. And when there is water shortage, the servers will simply move to the next country that forgot to ask the right question first. India, in its rush to become the world’s AI infrastructure hub, is sleepwalking into a water catastrophe that […]
May 14, 2026
Employees are no longer asking primarily whether they feel valued or whether they belong. They are asking whether their organization can navigate uncertainty, whether leadership decisions reflect stated values, and whether change will be handled in ways that preserve rather than deplete human capacity.