2015 / Articles
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Five lessons India Inc can learn from the Pandavas
Sometimes what is our negative trait is also our positive trait. When we win, our boorishness comes across as determination. When we lose, our kindness comes across as weakness.
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The gradation of abuse, and love
Some things are more mine than others. Some things are dearer than others. And depending on what is mine and how mine they are our response to their action varies.
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Organizations need scapegoats to take responsibility for failures
For all talk of measurability and rationality, modern corporations make great use of scapegoats.
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Gods of Zero and Infinity
When the denominator of life is one, the world is different from when the denominator of life is infinity.
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There Is No Escape From Myth
All cultures — Hindu, Christian, Greek or American — are guided by a myth communicated through a mythology.
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The power of myth explained
Key points of Devdutt Pattanaik’s talk at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2015.
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Nature shrugs, conflicts stop, temporarily
The world changes, yet remains the same. Technology transforms but nature stays static.
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Why corporate CEOs often resist talent management
Like parents who feel their children are not as good as them, most leaders feel their successors are not as good as them.
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From intellectual Gita to sensory Gita
Non-cognitive ways are as valid to evoke the exact same feelings that Gita seeks to evoke cognitively.
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How many times should we do it, God?
How similar people are around the world, in different times, in different places, for all their apparent differences.
