“Have you ever driven through the mountains at night with your headlights off?” Ron Shimkus asked. “Me either!” he said, not waiting for an answer. We were beginning our discussion and the topic was “uncertainty.”…
Since the ancient days of trade, Central Asia has been playing a crucial role in bridging boundaries. A historical study of the famous Silk Route can vouch for it. Today, after the discoveries of sea…
What is the fundamental difference between a buoyant company and a not-so-good one, when all the factors are the same? The reply is simple- expeditious actions. It is the outcome of the ability to form…
When Herbert Spencer coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ to draw parallels between his understanding of economics and Charles Darwin’s idea of ‘natural selection’, he probably never realized how apt the phrase would become…
The striving to extend the lifespan, the perseverance shown to find measures to lead a healthy life, the indomitable spirit to ward off physical ailments, only to experience more from life forms the core of…
My career has been long enough that I was working on startups during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and the Great Recession of the late 2000s. I’ve lived and worked through panicky times…
Language has always been one of the most empowering as well as the most limiting factor for businesses. On one hand, it stems a sense of understanding and enables you to reach out to customers…
Decisions provide an edge when it is time-tested. Only a true leader knows how to crack the code and come up with the right step within a blink. But the paths to learn it and…
The impact that a single bad senior leadership hire can have on an organization is staggering. I was chatting with a friend I hadn’t seen in several years this weekend who, when we’d last spoken,…
