E125 – The Power of Paying Attention – Seeing the unseen
In business, perfection is often overrated. Some of the most powerful breakthroughs don’t emerge from flawless plans or carefully controlled…
E117 – Purpose – Putting a man on the moon
What if a single sentence could define an entire culture? When I was in school I heard a story about workers who were working at a construction site.
E115 – Stand Still, Watch, Transform – Step Inside the Circle
Standing still to move faster. In a world obsessed with speed and action, the greatest breakthroughs often come from standing still…
E113 – The Billion-Dollar Dinner Question – From Rejection to Revenue
What if failure was the secret ingredient to success? When most leaders shy away from mistakes, Sara Blakely—founder of Spanx…
E94 – Machiavelli and my boss
In the late 90’s a professor at Berkeley did an interesting experiment. He got together a group of people with the same background, level of education…
E34 – Fearlessness
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw also called Sam Bahadur (or Sam the Brave) was arguably India greatest general.
He was the Chief of Army Staff for the Indian Army during the Bangladesh war in 1971. This incident happened three decades before that war. The year – 1942, The Location – the forests of Burma. This was before the second world…
E32 – Does your boss have your back ?
This is story about a lesson in leadership that the Dr Satish Dhawan then the Chairman of The Indian Space Research Organisation taught Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam who was then the Mission Director of a Satellite Launch Program. It was 17th of August, 1979. At SriHarikota Space Centre, a 4 stage Satellite Launch Vehicle was ready for lift-off……
E16 – The Threat To Bono
This story is about one of my favorite band – U2. In 1976 when they were still teenagers studying in the same school in Dublin, Ireland, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr decided to form the band ‘U2’. They released their first album in 1980 and it was very clear from the start that they were very good……..