Leaders Speak

When the (blue) chips are down…

It is becoming clearer that India’s growth in the future will have to be spearheaded by the SMEs. Everything –
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In the month of the budget…

‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’ – the epigram by French critic Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr rings
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The Tardiness of Mistrust (or the Speed of Trust)

A recent negotiation with a client brought home the bizarre point that legal teams are probably happiest when no one
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Digital transformation and then what?

Every segment of society – in India and globally – is obsessed with the pace of digital transformation and its
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Zoom in, Zoom out: the big positive trigger in India?

These days, you are either a Modi ‘bhakt’ or a secular. It isn’t possible to be something in the middle.
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The importance of the middle

These days, you are either a Modi ‘bhakt’ or a secular. It isn’t possible to be something in the middle.
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Governance: how should we think about ‘perfect’?

The fall of Enron in 2001 – a Wall street darling and hailed as America’s most innovative company for successive
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What’s the ‘passion’ I would pursue?

I owe the title of this column to Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer. He pursued excellence in the lap
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‘Celebrate what’s right with the world’

I owe the title of this column to Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer. He pursued excellence in the lap
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The Speed of Trust in the Age of Fraud

Given that our cover story is on fraud, and its likelihood in the digital age, I have been tempted to
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