Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita 6 – Transience

Chapter 2 Verse 16 We live our temporary lives as though we are here forever… and give importance to things that don’t last.  Modern firms are so caught up in the quarterly results that they miss focussing on their long term strategy and thereby fold up. Strange, but true. Krishna seems to speak about this … Read more

Having the right boss makes a huge difference…

Right through my career of more than thirty years, I have had the good fortune of having the right boss at the right time. Of course there have been few exceptions but I am not going to share about them here. My very first boss, at Cipla, Mr Narayanan, was an exceptional leader. Exceptional because … Read more