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December 7, 2019
6th December 2019 THE WISE LEADER
This year-end I write about the importance of ahankar-mukt leadership. Early next year, I will share how to work at becoming ahankar-mukt. Narcissists are full of ahankar.November 9, 2019
11th November 2019 THE WISE LEADER
After reading the heading above, the reader might wonder what I have been sniffing. After IL&FS, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank, CG Power, business ethics and values? But please, please read on.October 15, 2019
11rd October 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
Readers of my last three articles in this column have asked for an example to exemplify my advocacy that independent directors can and should act on signals rather than wait for a crisis to crack openSeptember 11, 2019
11th September 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
I responded to an event organizer’s request for an unconventional biodata about myself by sending something likeSeptember 3, 2019
29th August 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
How do you deal with a high performing CEO, who is arrogant, in-your-face and cocky? Watch very carefully for prodromal signals and act on the 5C’s: consider, consult, counsel, coach and, if all fail, then confrontJuly 5, 2019
5th July 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
Kibitzer is a Yiddish word for a spectator of bridge or chess, who offers unsolicited advice in chess, bridge, sports or even business.June 8, 2019
7th June 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
Success can make a person rich but can also pose personal and reputational risks. After my book was published recently (Crash, Penguin, 2019), a few readers expressed incredulity about how power could actually “damage” the brain.May 14, 2019
10th May 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
A superb CEO retires from executive position and becomes the non-executive chairman (NEC) of the same company. Is it a good idea or a bad one? Opinions are probably loaded on both sides of the argument, and there is no yes or no answer.April 12, 2019
12th April 2019 BUSINESS STANDARD
In other countries, the concept of the founder/promoter of a company has relevance at the time of the founding—whose idea it was or who initiated formation of the company, a bit like the parents’ names when a child is born.