Sanjay Sikdar Why Free Coffee Won't Save Your Global Culture Though on the surface it looks a little humorous, there is a deep-rooted message here that holds true across borders. As Peter Drucker famously put it, culture eats strategy for breakfast. Any organiz... Beyond The Role
Sugandha Naik Culture Isn't a Policy. It's a Daily Negotiation For years, I believed building culture in global organizations was about frameworks, values, and well-crafted people strategies. Experience taught me otherwise. Culture is rarely built in town halls o... Beyond The Role
Sunith Kumar K What Engineering Leaders Get Wrong About Deploying AI at Work Most AI conversations at work start with the model. Which one's faster, cheaper, more accurate. That's the fun part to argue about. It's also rarely what decides whether AI works once it's in your com... Behind The Algorithm
Kamaldeep Saluja Seven Countries, One Team: What GCC Leaders Get Wrong About Culture Dalian, 2008. I had flown in to meet the team, and as I always did, I called a huddle. I spoke the way I spoke everywhere — fast, confident, leaning on an operational-excellence example I had used a d... The Rebuild
Sudhir Aggarwal Why the CHRO Still Has to Earn a Seat That Should Already Be Theirs "Ask yourself -- or ask the room -- how many CHROs you know who became CEO. The answer tells you everything about how the function has been positioned." “The CHRO at the Strategy Table”, a CHRO needs ... CHROJourneys
Vivek Ahuja The AI Business Case That Nobody in India Is Saying Out Loud India’s GCC success story was built on one simple idea: cost arbitrage. Global companies moved work to India because they could access skilled talent at a fraction of Western costs. Over time, these c... CFO The Unsaid
Jogendra Singh The Unsaid: The Private Weight of Public Leadership Leadership is often seen through the lens of confidence, clarity, and control. From the outside, leaders appear decisive — standing on stages, addressing employees, speaking to investors, and inspirin... The Unsaid
Rajan Gupta The Unsaid: What AI Leaders Privately Think but Rarely Say Publicly I have spent fifteen years building AI systems across global enterprises, and here is what many leaders quietly admit in private but rarely say in public: we are overwhelmed . Not because we do not un... The Unsaid
Ankit Thakur What Boards Actually Need from Their CHRO Right Now Over the years, there have been countless articles, conference panels, and leadership forums declaring, with fanfare that HR has finally arrived at the strategy table. Business gurus have written abou... CHROJourneys
Varun Dhingra Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Gurugram Are Not the Same GCC Market By Varun Dhingra | Founder, Renous | The GCC Mandate I have sat in GCC roundtables across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Gurugram for the better part of twoyears. Same format, same invitation list, same th... The GCC Room
Varun Dhingra What You Absorbed in Your First Ten Years Is Still Running the Show Think back to the organisation where you spent your first serious years. The way decisions got made. The kind of people who got promoted and the kind who didn't. What counted as a good idea and what g... The Rebuild
Varun Dhingra When the Title Goes, Who Are You? For twenty-three years, David knew exactly who he was. He was the CEO. He was the person who walked into rooms and changed their temperature. The one whose calls got returned within the hour, whose op... Beyond The Role