It came as a bolt from nowhere. India, the World Champions and No 1. Test team in the world were whitewashed 4-0 by England and, if anything, the scoreline flatters us. Numerous reasons have been floated – poor planning by the BCCI, lack of ......
Over the last few weeks the most dominant news story has been the attempt by civil activist Anna Hazare and his team to pressure the government into implementing their version of the anti-corruption Lok Pal bill. It is beginning to look like, at the ......
What happens when you turn a key in a car door is very different from what happens when you turn the same key in the ignition. The external stimulus is the same in both cases but differences in internal structure of the two objects determine whether ......
On the brink of elimination in front of their demanding home fans, India fought back determinedly to win the 2011 cricket world cup by defeating all the other former world champions in back to back matches – the West Indies, Australia, ......
In his book ‘Outliers’, Malcolm Gladwell relates the case study of how Korean airlines turned around their safety record. Between 1988 and 1998 Korean airlines had a loss rate of 4.79 per million departures – 17 times higher than a ......
There is plenty of literature and training available on how to lead your team. However there is remarkably little on an equally key skill – how to lead your boss. Bosses are constantly told to listen to their subordinates and criticized when ......
There’s a space between where I am and where I want to be. A distance between who I am and the person I feel I ought to be. No matter how far I’ve traveled and no matter how far I’ll travel there’s a place I’m afraid ......
Sharks are motion manifested in physical form. Everything about them – their streamlined shape, their sinewy movements, their focused eyes – signify speed, urgency and restlessness. In fact, unlike other fish, they do not have gas ......
In the summer of 2008 Nadal had just won his fourth straight French open title. The Spaniard had never lost there but at the same time he had never won any other Grand slam title. And he had been No 2 for years without coming anywhere near ......
The Dutch recently lost their third world cup final. In 1974 and 1978 they played an ambitious, attractive style of ‘total football’ but ended up as the losing team on both occasions. The country suffered decades of hurt and the team ......
The paradigm that drives most of our lives is ‘Have-Do-Be’. The message driven by many advertising campaigns is that once you ‘Have’ certain things (like a beauty soap) you will be able to ‘Do’ certain things ......
Everyone has heard of EQ – Emotional intelligence but, what is the hard case for developing soft skills at senior leadership levels? Daniel Goleman, the leading name in the field, started with the assumption that the competencies that ......