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Covid Ruminations

# Covid, # Objectives and some musings……# Leadership The ink surely hasn’t dried up, and won’t for a fair bit of time to come, on the stats and the state of the times we are living in. In that vein,

Leading Yourself During the Lock-down

Prime Minister Modi’s Janata Curfew is upon us. Till last evening (21 March), India has 0.1% of Corona virus infections globally, and I hope it quickly heads south. If it doesn’t though, the social experiment to lock down on the

As the Wind blows

In my several years of working as a Consultant now, I am a little surprised at the lack of understanding and appreciation (conversations) at the leadership level, of the significant shift that is happening in all of us as customers.

The Last Frontier for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

In his book Purple Cow, Seth Godin wrote about the importance of being different, about standing out, to be noticed. His analogy is simple. If you were driving through fields full of grazing cows, would you stop to look at

Create value to differentiate yourself

Some weeks ago, I wrote a piece about a fantastic experience I had at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai. It was about creating great customer experiences. My friend Rohit Shipstone commented on it, and I thank him for it,

Why its so hard to get results

You don’t achieve results by setting goals. You achieve them by what you do. In the last 18 months, I have spoken to over 100 groups of managers, each group of around 20 people, at a global engineering company, regarding

The Tortoise & The Hare – A Corporate Parable

My favorite corporate version of Aesop’s fable is actually this version –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTeFa43730. However I am equally struck by the parallel between the hare and the tortoise and how our strategic goals move and the pace at which we move. Hit