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Beyond the Role

Senior roles reward people for giving more: more hours, more travel, more of themselves. For a while, it works. Then, often somewhere in the middle of a career, the bill arrives, in health, in family, in a quiet sense that the work has crowded out everything else. Beyond the Role is where India’s senior leaders write honestly about that side of leadership. How they protect their health under pressure. What they changed when the pace stopped being sustainable.

The part of leadership that never makes the annual report.

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Is Workforce Health the Next Business Metric?
BEYOND THE ROLE

Is Workforce Health the Next Business Metric?

Explore how workforce health is evolving from employee wellness programmes to preventive healthcare, measurable health outcomes and AI-driven health intelligence, making employee wellbeing a strategic business priority.

Hina Bhagwani | 12 Oct 2026 | 47 views

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Why Culture, Not Strategy, Sinks Global Teams
BEYOND THE ROLE

Why Culture, Not Strategy, Sinks Global Teams

A project lead in Bangalore watches her German counterpart challenge the plan in front of thirty people on an all-hands call, without softening a word of it. The Indian team's read afterward: “He was ...

Jan Mohammad Jan Mohammad • 25 Sep 2026 | 205 views
Why GCCs Don't Get Bigger Mandates by Asking
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Why GCCs Don't Get Bigger Mandates by Asking

Every new GCC starts with an invisible t ​ rust deficit. No one says it aloud, but the questions are always there ​ . Back then, success was often measured by how efficiently we could execute work at ...

Moiz B Barodawala Moiz B Barodawala • 10 Sep 2026 | 284 views
Culture Doesn't Scale Just Because Your Org Chart Does
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Culture Doesn't Scale Just Because Your Org Chart Does

India's Global Capability Centres have moved far beyond their back-office origins. Today, they own product roadmaps, lead transformation programs, and run functions that sit at the heart of global bus...

Kuldeep Chilukuri • 24 Aug 2026 | 390 views
Why Free Coffee Won't Save Your Global Culture
BEYOND THE ROLE

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...

Sanjay Sikdar • 3 Jul 2026 | 561 views
Culture Isn't a Policy. It's a Daily Negotiation
BEYOND THE ROLE

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...

Sugandha Naik • 2 Jul 2026 | 404 views
When the Title Goes, Who Are You?
BEYOND THE ROLE

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...

Varun Dhingra Varun Dhingra • 1 Mar 2026 | 637 views
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