Lessons from kumble-kohli saga
By Boria Majumdar The Anil Kumble-era as coach of the Indian team is over. Yes, his exit was unceremonious and wasn’t the best thing to happen to a legend. Yes, there was a rift between...
View ArticleHope is very much a strategy
By: M Muneer Abraham Lincoln must be turning in his grave for not taking into consideration us Indians when he delivered those famous lines, “You can fool all the people some of the time and...
View ArticleTheism and Hinduism
By: SRI JAYENDRA SARASWATHI Since we believe in the Paramatma, or Supreme energy, which is beginningless and endless, it is clear that Hinduism in its purest form is theistic. Theism is its basic...
View ArticleManaging decisions
By: AARON DE SMET ET AL It’s the best and worst of times for decision-makers. Swelling stockpiles of data, advanced analytics and intelligent algorithmsare providing organisations with powerful new...
View ArticlePM Modi must convince Trump in today’s meeting that India is a great opportunity
By: Ashley J Tellis This meeting matters greatly because unlike Trump’s recent predecessors, who valued the strategic partnership with New Delhi both for its own sake and because of its importance for...
View ArticleModi in America: Chemistry, not history
By: Manoj Joshi Indian and American officials have been burning the midnight oil to ensure a positive outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with US President Donald Trump today. They should...
View ArticleSelflessness a burden?
By: T S SREENIVASA RAGHAVAN If you are disappointed today about something, it does not mean that it is a permanent condition. There is always a tomorrow to look forward to. If you refuse to...
View ArticleAnalysing give & take
By: Adam Grant The takers are people who, when they walk into an interaction with another person, are trying to get as much as possible from that person and contribute as little as they can...
View ArticleMedia bashing good for Virat Kohli in long run
By: Boria Majumdar Till February 2016 Virat Kohli could do no wrong. Four double-hundreds and winning back-to-back series against the West Indies, New Zealand and England, Kohli was the media’s...
View ArticleWorld Bank needs to reinvent itself and match the pace of GoI’s economic...
By: TVSN Prasad Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s itinerary in his current trip to Portugal, the United States and the Netherlands reveals a telling economic pattern. In their 2009 paper, ‘The Role of the...
View ArticleModi-Trump meet: The new art of the deal
By: Vinod Dham This week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the United States to meet with the new US president, Donald Trump. Before becoming president, Trump was a successful businessman and...
View ArticleManaging strategy
By Saikat Chaudhuri Digital disruption is another form of disruption. In that sense, there’s a lot we can learn from past disruptions. Disruptions happen from time to time. Each one has its unique...
View ArticleZorba the Buddha
By OSHO The traditional concept of man was that of a materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral person, sinner or saint. A divided man is miserable. He is neither healthy nor whole; the other half...
View ArticleOn video analytics
By: MARK PATEL ET AL Video analytics — the application of sophisticated algorithmsto video feeds — is spurring the creation of new Internet of Things (IoT) applications and use cases. For instance,...
View ArticleMountains inspire all
By: JANINA GOMES Men pass, mountains remain. Little wonder, why mountains are a sign of solidity and stability. They tower over us, touching the sky, sometimes through clouds…they convey a sense of...
View ArticleBCCI’s delaying tactics must be countered by CoA
By Boria Majumdar It has been exactly a year since India’s highest court passed its orders on the future of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Six months later a committee headed...
View ArticleAdministrative reforms: Rebolting the steel frame
By Amitabh Kant It is not feasible for India to progress through the 21st century with 19th-century administrative systems. In the last three years, several innovative measures have been launched. They...
View ArticleQuantifying financial risk
By: CONOR KEHOE ET AL In the decade since the global financial crisis, financial companies have honed their ability to measure risk in a way that non-financial companies have not. Granted,...
View ArticleDon’t rock your boat
By: Surekha Kothari Followers of Advaita philosophy say that the soul and the Divine are one. But when a soul takes birth encased in a physical body, its new physical identity after birth and the...
View ArticleGoods & services tax: Nothing to be fraud of
By: Raktim Dutta & B B Chakrabarti So, finally, it looks like the goods and services tax (GST) will solve many of the problems that afflict the country’s indirect taxation system. Not the least,...
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