Leadership Benchmarking:  A taste of India

Leadership Benchmarking: A taste of India

Coronavirus War Pre- Coronavirus War, life in India was substantially driven by greed. Most of us were deaf to Mahatma Gandhi’s appeal to differentiate between greed and need. The vision of our leaders, over the past 70 years, had been to create extraordinary wealth in 

Post Coronavirus: Uncertainty is Certain

Post Coronavirus: Uncertainty is Certain

The global economy has been in a slowdown for the past 7 quarters. We have slowly but surely felt it in our businesses and occupations. A coronavirus epidemic in the recent quarter has aggravated the global economy further. At first, China. Then, Iran, Russia, Italy, 

Lessons from Past Disruptions

Lessons from Past Disruptions

Oil Embargo The first step in Problem Solving, when there is a disruption in the economic / social / political environment, is to question every assumption we have been working with. The classic case I can recall is when, in 1973, 12 countries that made 

How to convert the Coronavirus Threat into an Opportunity?

How to convert the Coronavirus Threat into an Opportunity?

The Crisis We are faced with a global coronavirus threat. We have also seen the stock market crash. Travel has come to a standstill. Supply chains are in feeble health. We also hear of employees losing jobs. And the diktat “Work from Home” Gloom. The 

Business Lesson: Stories can reach your heart

Business Lesson: Stories can reach your heart

Adults love Stories. “Tell me a story Papa”. Is this a familiar request? Why are children so obsessed with stories? Because stories help us to understand ideas. Aesop, when he authored fables, must have known instinctively what a well-regarded professor of neurophysiology articulated many years 

Harvest your Best Practices. Innovate them, or die.

Harvest your Best Practices. Innovate them, or die.

The Secret: Continuously Innovate Best Practices to Next Practices Financial Management We all know that we are organized in silos. These silos have names…Purchase, Operations, Accounts, Human Resource Development, and so on. We have owners for these silos, who are accountable for the performance of