“Strategic direction is more important today. It's about providing a framework for managers to navigate through the fog of complex chokes. No company can avoid this."
– C.K. Prahalad –
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- AQoL – A Question of Leadership
- AQoL Aug 2021 | Will Renu make a good or bad career choice?
- AQoL Feb 2021 | Mr. Krishnan would not do overtime
- AQoL Dec 2020 | A Bottle of Johnnie Walker
- AQoL Oct 2020 | World War 2 Bombers That Did Not Return
- AQoL Aug 2020 | Leadership Lesson from a Boiled Egg
- AQoL July 2020 | Would You Throw Away an Agreement on An Important Decision?
- AQoL 24 June 2020 | Weapon of Choice: Persuasion or Power?
- AQoL June 2020 | Jacinda Ardern’s Leadership During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- PoS – Perspectives on Strategy (Archive)
- PoS Dec 2019 | Year-end round-up of Perspectives on Strategy
- PoS Nov 2019 | Brinkmanship in Maharashtra: A Game Theory Perspective
- PoS Sep 2019 | New Traffic Rules: High Penalties Just Do Not Work
- PoS Aug 2019 | Stop Bribing Your Managers
- PoS Jul 2019 | Just How Risky Is Risk?
- PoS Mar 2019 | Taking The Long View
- PoS Feb 2019 | Venkat’s Plan Part 2: The Game Theory Trap
- PoS Jan 2019 | Will Venkat’s Plan Work?
- PoS Dec 2018 | Are assumptions hurting your brand?
- PoS Aug 2018 | NARCOS and the game beyond the game
- PoS Jun 2018 | Is doing nothing a strategy?
- PoS May 2018 | Karnataka Election through the Lens of Game Theory
- PoS Mar 2018 | Anticipation – A Special Skill of The Astute Strategist
- PoS Feb 2018 | Resolving Mr. Sharma’s Problem
- PoS Dec 2017 | Mr. Sharma has a problem!
- PoS Nov 2017 | Is it okay to manipulate people’s preferences?
- PoS Sep 2017 | Finding the RIGHT doctor: A Case in Strategic Decision Making
- PoS Jun 2017 | True test of leadership in murder and mayhem
- PoS Apr 2017 | Why are you afraid to say who you are?
- PoS Mar 2017 | How to game your performance appraisal
- PoS Feb 2017 | What, no interviews?
- PoS Nov 2016 | Demonetization, Cognitive Bias, and Decision Making
- PoS Oct 2016 | How can you grow profitably in a commoditized industry?
- PoS Sep 2016 | What spurs innovation in organisations?
- PoS Apr 2016 | How Hard Is It To Build An Innovative Organisation?
- PoS Mar 2016 | Does Intuition Help or Hinder Innovation?
- PoS Feb 2016 | What has Archimedes’s Eureka have to do with running a business?
- PoS Nov 2015 | Jet Airways: A Question of Full Service
- PoS Sep 2015 | Can CSR strengthen competitive advantage?
- PoS Aug 2015 | How to get the BEST from your consultant
- PoS July 2015 | When Do You Need A Strategy Consultant?
- PoS June 2015 | How Nash Equilibrium Guides Competitive Strategy
- PoS May 2015 | How Endowment Effect, Confirmation Bias & Overconfidence Make a Deadly Cocktail
- PoS Apr 2015 | Corporate Strategy Office: Why an organization cannot do without one
- PoS Mar 2015 | The Critical Need for A Corporate Strategy Office
- PoS Feb 2015 | How Complementors Fuel Growth
- PoS Jan 2015 | How to Profitably Co-operate with Competitors
- PoS Dec 2014 | Actors, Observers & Lincoln’s Advice
- PoS Nov 2014 | Prisoners’ Dilemma on Thanksgiving Day in USA
- PoS Oct 2014 | Is Your Key Account Management Effective?
- PoS Sep 2014 | Are Selfish Organisations Altruistic?
- PoS Aug 2014 | Do you have Waigaya meetings?
- PoS Jun 2014 | Summit Fever in Board Rooms
- PoS May 2014 | Employees: the trim tabs of organisation
- PoS Apr 2014 | Camel carts and strategic thinking
- PoS Mar 2014 | Triumph and Tragedy in Antarctica
- PoS Feb 2014 | Averting a risky decision
- PoS Jan 2014 | Brinkmanship in Delhi
- PoS Nov 2013 | Popular Misconceptions of Strategy
- PoS Oct 2013 | How to Sharpen Strategic Thinking
- PoS Sep 2013 | How Strategy Education Improves Profitability
- PoS Aug 2013 | The Myth of the Strategic Customer
- PoS Jul 2013 | Why you need to focus
- PoS Jun 2013 | Personality of Inquisitive Organizations
- May 2013 Inquisitive Organisation – The Leader’s Role
- PoS Apr 2013 | The folly of chasing two rabbits
- PoS Mar 2013 | When Growth is Not Good
- February 2013 Don’t bet the farm!
- PoS Jan 2013 | Intution: Boon or Bane?
- PoS Dec 2012 | Two Secrets of a Good Strategy
- PoS Nov 2012 | Insights Shape Strategy?
- PoS Oct 2012 | Does your company have an effective strategy?
- PoS Sept 2012 | Can you say what your strategy is?
- PoS Aug 2012 | The Execution Trap