Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing the six-word story “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” There are new kids on the block who are surprisingly- and remotely — not linked to literature. Both write even shorter ones than this classic and run world’s largest governments…

The workplace is intense these days as the pressure to perform builds. Our individual and collective effort to exercise patience is being tested today more than ever before. …

“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us; it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified…

1. Start-ups are not smaller versions of large organisations. Bonsai has a different life and game plan as compared to large trees. The two should not be compared and start-ups should not be expected to emulate the large organisation. 2. Start-ups do not adhere to a ‘set’ business plan —…

Humanity is more technologically powerful than ever before and yet we feel ourselves to be increasingly vulnerable. Why? We are at crossroads and the time is opportune to build a better tomorrow for our posterity. Our future may just depend on it! In the evolution of mankind, as societies became…

Full-time employment has come of age — having evolved to today include worker protections, benefits and the works. ‘The other 99 percent’ happily work for a few others and the model earns respect for and from the constituents in the society. Internet and the age of start-ups seem to be…

Things that no one else but only the CEO can do and must do. It requires awareness, intent and conscious action — the reason why you should care. I was fortunate to become a CEO of an MNC in my early thirties. The year was 2005. Most of the advice…

We all err in thinking that the concept of leadership was invented in the late 20th Century by management gurus. Many classic works of literature and history express the meaning of leadership, for leaders have always interested poets and historians as a subject. After all, prophets (Buddha, Jesus Christ, the…

Learning is a virtue for leaders. The two are inextricably linked, as is reflected in this Zen Master story. A martial arts student went to a teacher and declared that he wanted to learn the system. How long would it take? The teacher replied, “Ten years.” The impatient student said…