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Working 70hrs per week, Is Productivity or Burnout?

Narayana Murthy recently sparked a heated debate by stating that Indian youth need to work 70 hours a week to boost productivity. Given his 50+ years of leadership at Infosys, his remarks understandably carry weight. He compared India to Germany and Japan after WW2, who worked for a long time to rebuild their economies. It […]

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Influencing Persuasion Social Psychology

How Small British Island Country Ruled Mighy Bharath: A Model-Driven Analysis

A few years back I read one of the famous talks by Charlie Munger, Business Partner of Warren Buffet who discussed the remarkable success of Coca-Cola in his essay “How to Turn $2 Million Into $2 Trillion”. In this talk, he leaned into a ‘latticework of mental models’ ie, by viewing the businesses through the […]

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Influencing Values

“The Hidden Price Tag: Why ‘Free’ Isn’t Really Free”

As there is continued debate and effects on free services promised by the Karnataka government, a common question that comes to most people’s mind is, Now the above 2 questions can put most people in the defensive and accept the logic of giving Free is indeed good. And also there are arguments from some economists […]

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Influencing Persuasion

How to be persuasive in selling your ideas

There is a lot of emphasis on coming up with innovative ideas and proposals in most organizations. Indeed many come up with good ideas too. But my own experience shows, it is one thing to come up with an idea, and it is altogether a different thing to sell or persuade others to agree to […]