"Truly stressful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking"
– Malcolm Gladwell –
AQoL – A Question of Leadership
AQoL is my video series on ordinary and extraordinary stories of leadership from business, politics, and society.
In times of constant flux, as we are witnessing in this century, astute leadership will be the difference between success and failure, wellbeing and misery.
You may view all the episodes of AQoL from the menu on the right.
- My Thoughts
- Business Strategy
- Game Theory
- Scenario Planning
- Strategic Marketing
- Strategic Thinking
- Articles
- 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