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Digital Age: India’s 2nd Independence Opportunity
My speech on India’s 75th Independence Day Celebrations at Capitol Hill, Washington DC on September 14, 2022 I would like to begin my talk with two quotes: “If I had to bet on one country in Asia, it’s India, if I had to bet on 2 countries, it would be India twice. There’s no better…
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10 Mantras for 2022 – leading a fulfilling life in a Hyper VUCA world
2021 has been a very unusual year. Beginning of the year we thought that we should be seeing the end of COVID-19 soon, but it was anything but that. We saw a ferocious second wave (especially in India), whose intensity took most by surprise. What followed was a very difficult period of human pain and…
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6 Management Lessons from India’s magnificent test series win in Australia
It has been almost a week since India’s incredible win in the last test match in Brisbane, but the excitement refuses to die down. I have been following Indian cricket team passionately for the past 40+ years and this test series win in Australia was definitely one of our absolute best moments. It is up…
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Blessings of 2020, a most unusual year
2020 has been the most unusual year of our generation, perhaps one of the more unusual years in human history. Who would have thought same time last year that a global pandemic would bring the world to a standstill, change our lives so dramatically and cause such severe social and economic distress? Covid 19 has touched…
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Changing the Paradigm for Business Leaders with lessons from Bhagavad Gita – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blogpost, I had shared 14 Timeless Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita. In this note I have tried to connect the implications of the lessons of Bhagavad Gita for Business leaders, how it can address the key challenges arising from the existing business paradigm and provide a new, more positive and sustainable…
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Timeless Lessons from Bhagavad Gita for Business Leaders – Part 1
The dominant philosophy in the Business World is Capitalism. While this philosophy has generated unprecedented wealth creation, innovation and growth, it has come at a high cost. There is social & economic inequality, unethical behaviors, stress, burnout, depression, and much more. Clearly, the limitations of the existing paradigm are increasingly getting exposed, even more so…
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What is digital transformation in business: everything you need to know
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Learning to Reinvent for Tomorrow
Synopsis of Panel Discussion at NTLF 2020 in Mumbai on February 13, 2020 Velocity of technology and business change is unprecedented, product and technology cycles are becoming shorter, and customer expectations changing rapidly. All these forces at work have made Learning a strategic priority for the IT industry. Every IT company has to focus on…
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6 learnings from 2019
As 2019 winds down and we get ready to welcome 2020, I was reflecting what a massive year this has been for us as a family. We have so much to be thankful for – we made a successful transition as a family from India to the US, our second daughter went to her dream…
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Digital Strategy for building scalable models in VUCA World
Businesses now operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, which has widespread implications across dimensions – people, process, and technology. Digital transformation is an unavoidable organizational imperative in such an environment, so much so that Technology strategy has become “The Strategy” for enterprises. Seventy-eight percent of respondents to a recent study revealed that a company’s…