What a 78-Year-Old With No Aviation Experience Taught Japan Airlines About Leadership
How Kazuo Inamori helped turn around Japan Airlines by combining clear principles, transparent numbers and leadership that gave people context.
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The Most Dangerous Leadership Trap: Believing You Already Know
Leadership learning keeps experience from becoming a blind spot. Explore why curiosity, honest feedback and a willingness to learn help leaders stay effective.
Games People Play by Eric Berne: A Practical Summary of the Social Scripts We Keep Repeating
A practical summary of Eric Berne's Games People Play, explaining transactional analysis, social games, hidden motives, and how to become more aware in relationships.
When Cinema Becomes Satsang: Sant Gyaneshwar to Hanuman Ansh
Watching Hanuman Ansh unexpectedly took me back to a childhood memory of my father taking us to see Sant Gyaneshwar—and reminded me how honest stories of saints can plant spiritual seeds that remain with us for decades.
The Mentor Who Taught Me to Lead Before I Became a Leader
Some teachers enter our lives through classrooms. Others appear at critical moments in our careers and quietly shape the professionals, leaders and human beings we eventually become. Ashok...
Four Decades Later, I Faced the Same Fear Differently
Some fears return not to punish us, but perhaps to give us another chance to experience them differently. My recent surgery taught a lifelong control freak an unexpected lesson in surrender, trust and gratitude.
Prompt Injection: The Hidden AI Security Risk
A malicious instruction does not need to look like malware. It can sit quietly inside an email, a web page, a PDF, a spreadsheet, a CRM note, or...
GCCs 2.0: From Cost Centers to Global Innovation Engines
Over the last two decades, Global Capability Centers (GCCs) have undergone a remarkable transformation. What began as a strategy to reduce costs and provide operational support has evolved...
Forward Deployed Engineers: The AI Era’s Fastest Growing Tech Role
Every major technology wave creates new roles. The internet gave us webmasters. Cloud computing created DevOps engineers. Big Data created data scientists. Artificial Intelligence is now creating another...
Michael Eisner: Creativity-in-a-Box and the Forgotten Case for Micro Management
Modern corporate culture worships two ideas: unlimited creative freedom, and completely hands-off leadership. Michael Eisner challenged both. During his legendary tenure at The Walt Disney Company, Eisner helped...