January 29, 2025
Good to be a Chipskate The recent market turmoil caused by the emergence of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has sent shockwaves through the tech industry. […]
May 30, 2022
The Seen and the Unseen is India’s most downloaded podcast. Amit Varma invited me to join him for a chat. Hope you will enjoy listening to it.
May 23, 2021
What does a cooking video and a music video have to do with designing a corporate onboarding program? Both tell us how learning experiences must be designed.
October 24, 2020
Old timers in every organisation resent the big bucks that their employer is willing to pay when they bring in external hires. It is much more effective to invest in growing your own talent.
October 12, 2020
The Man With A Golden Gun beat a retreat. In a year that has seen millions of deaths, he decided he will only live twice (in theatres and small screens) in 2021. I will take a bet that James Bond will appear on the small screen for more viewers than the cinema. 2020 is no time to die. 2021 is unlikely to be different. COVID-19 has been the biggest Market Shaper of all times.
September 26, 2020
Eshna Kutty woke up one morning in September to learn that the world was looking for her. This is the video that had crashed the Net. I spoke to her to understand what made her suddenly hit the spotlight. This 'overnight sensation' has been preparing for this moment for the past ten years.
September 14, 2020
Talent Density is all about constantly culling the average performer. Think of it as the dreaded bell-curve on steroids. The Netflix culture site says, "Our version of the great workplace is a dream team in pursuit of ambitious common goals, for which we spend heavily. It is on such a team that you learn the most, perform your best work, improve the fastest, and have the most fun."
July 3, 2020
COVID-19 is innovation fuel for Starbucks. This Market Shaper created the ‘third workplace’ and is leading their own ‘transformation phase.’ Using the crisis to change the […]
December 29, 2019
There is something else besides the role dimensions, I think there is a very high sense of responsibility when you get into a business leadership role and the responsibility is about you realize your decisions are beginning to impact the careers of people, their whole livelihoods, the direction which you wish the organization to take and you bet on could come through, it need not, it could have an impact and you need to do it in a lot more responsible manner. And that sense of responsibility just gets accentuated when you step into this role which I have to admit was not there earlier.