When Visibility Stopped Working as a Measure of Performance
As work becomes less visible, the systems used to measure it are starting to fail—and expose what they were really rewarding
Leadership And Organisation
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The Battle Cry in the Boardroom
What looks like motivation—war footage, heroic narratives, calls to crush the competition—is often something else entirely: a system of thinking that rewires how organisations see markets, customers, and themselves
·Diversity & Inclusion
The Blind Spots of India Inc
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
·Leadership Practice and Development
When AI Raises the Average, Who Protects the Breakthrough?
Artificial intelligence is superb at optimisation. But transformation still comes from the deviations leaders choose to back.
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
The Quiet Work of Branding
Five shifts shaping how organisations build clarity, continuity and trust in 2025
·Behavioural Science,
When Stories Move Faster Than Systems
Why AI-accelerated narratives are exposing leadership and capability gaps across organisations
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
When A Leader Stumbles
How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series
·Organisational Culture, Transformation and Change
The Paradox of Excellence
How IndiGo’s greatest strengths created the conditions for the December 2025 crisis — and what it reveals about the limits of high-performance systems. Part One of a two part special series
·Leadership Practice and Development
The One Leadership Skill We Forgot to Teach
In an age of noise, overload and drifting meetings, facilitation is no longer a “tool”, it’s a core leadership discipline
·Leadership Practice and Development
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: How to Escape the Halfpinion Trap
In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
·Leadership Practice and Development
Terry Szuplat on the Art of Powerful Communication
Seven takeaways from a conversation with President Barack Obama’s speechwriter
·Leadership Practice and Development
From Cubs to Leaders
What the tiger’s journey through the wild teaches us about leadership growth
·Leadership Practice and Development
They Don't Make Them Like Tino Anymore
McKinsey’s first Indian hire. Mentor to generations. Architect of an enduring legacy
·Leadership Practice and Development
Zoho’s New CEO, Same Grounded Playbook
As Sridhar Vembu steps back to focus on AI, Shailesh Davey takes the lead, steering Zoho into the future, on its own terms
·Leadership Practice and Development
Character is about who we choose to be
Insights from General Stanley McChrystal’s new book ‘On Character: Choices That Define a Life’. The book is in Shivakumar’s list of best books of summer 2025
·Leadership Practice and Development
My 10 best business books of summer 2025
On what makes a leader, how to stop wasting energy on the wrong things, speaking well, the history of attention, understanding India’s economic planning, and more
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
After the Crash: A Test of Leadership and Legacy
In the shadow of the Air India AI171 tragedy, the Tata Group faces a crucible moment—echoing a corporate crisis from four decades ago that still defines leadership under pressure
·Leadership Practice and Development
The checklist trap: How we turned leadership into a lifestyle product
Leadership conversations are increasingly about what can be measured and instant results. Yet, many of the most powerful shifts in leadership show up quietly
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
FF Live: Managing Corporate Reputation in the Digital Age
18 takeaways on crisis management and trust-building
·Crisis Leadership, Reputation and Trust
How L&T completely muffed up a valuable teachable moment
Around the world, CEOs, even the smartest of the lot, are known to occasionally suffer from a foot-in-the-mouth disease. Yet there are playbooks in place on how to deal with such crises–something that L&T has chosen to ignore.
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