Spilled Water, Sharp Wit, and a Lesson in Leadership

A spilled glass. A damp strategy plan. And a CEO who cracked a line that lit up the room. A story about humour, leadership, and the gold in the cracks.

Win or Die: Notes from a Noisy Nation

The Checklist Trap: How We Turned Leadership into a Lifestyle Product

We may not like the system. But let’s admit it—we help make it. Through what we reward. What we tolerate. And what we scroll past without question.

The Second Story: Seeing Beyond Failures and Success

The Second Story requires deeper listening and more courage—but it reveals where change is truly needed.

The Art and Attitude of Humble Inquiry: A Conversation with Peter Schein

Leadership today isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about knowing how to ask. True leadership is about enabling collective wisdom to surface.

Learning from Experience: A Leadership Journey in Stories

Some conversations stay with you long after they end. They challenge you, nudge you, and sometimes, quietly reshape your thinking.

AI Natives Are Here: Are You Keeping Up?

Travel For Growth

Every time I have stood in the queue of a land where I clearly am ‘foreign’ irrespective of the passport I hold, I learn something new. Especially so, when am not peering into my phone or consumed by the desire to see more.

Arrivals and Departures

Every departure is its own arrival. And every arrival, a departure. To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.

Reacting to change