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In a recent post How to Tell Stories to Busy Executives I posed the business storytelling paradox. Stories are the most powerful tool of persuasion. However, executives – the people who need to be persuaded – rarely have time or patience for stories. So how do you tell stories to busy executives?

A recent article in the Economic Times reports how information technology services firms have started passing on rising talent cost to clients

What changes are coming to workplaces around the world? What factors are at play as the world muddles through COVID-19 at different stages?

We polled a significant population of Harbinger employees on their experience of the pandemic. The results are illuminating.

In business meetings, when someone brings up what competitors are doing, does everyone else respond in a panic mode?

Saluti Gianfranco! In March 2020, when Italy was worst hit with COVID-19, I wrote about Gianfranco Sorasio, an Italian entrepreneur and his leadership in crisis

We often resist accepting our situation, making it worse. Is there a parallel in business? Yes, it is called the sunk cost fallacy

For a tech company, 30 years of sustained growth is a happy milestone to celebrate.

Despite shrinkage in real economy and unemployment in double digits, S&P 500 is inching past pre-pandemic levels

Can you grow the value of your business by being less involved in it? Under some conditions, you can

Talking to a CEO boils down to this: Think and feel C-level before you talk to C-level.

On the evening of March 24, when all Harbinger employees went home, we knew little what was to come next

In a family, when someone’s flaw causes things to start falling apart, what saves everyone from a downfall?

How do some people find a way even when they have their back to the wall?

Economists are saying that we are in for a crappy decade, maybe two

Most business leaders struggle to create a momentum for their change initiatives

Just like many other parts of the world, India is now completely locked down

How Does a Business Owner Do “Whatever it Takes” in Times of Crisis?

With the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, HR and L&D leaders are finding themselves inundated with messages such as “7 Steps to Make Work from Home Effective”

In making fast business decisions under stress and uncertainty, it helps greatly to zero in on a few key questions underlying such decisions

Over the last couple of months, I spent countless hours engrossed in discussions with some of our brightest stars at Harbinger.

This week, I’m happy to present a guest blog written by my friend Phil Bookman, successful tech founder in Silicon Valley turned author of mystery novels

This month has been special for us at Harbinger Group because we launched Quillionz, world’s first AI-powered platform for creating quest

A few days ago, the residents of Mumbai experienced a situation where the sea literally ‘gave it back’ to them

In the ‘Pursuit of Opportunities’ series, so far we have reviewed three techniques to help identify opportunities – connecting the dots, reframing and surfacing hunches

We all have those seemingly crazy hunches from time to time

The Dabbawalas of Mumbai are an inspiring study in contrasts

As we saw in Part 1, opportunities arise once you begin to connect the dots. What happens when you see only one dot? Maybe the other dot is hidden right behind it.

Why do we end up missing opportunities that look obvious in hindsight?

No kidding. There is a job interview that every startup founder must go through

Although most schools and colleges do host alum gatherings, not many companies do

Although entrepreneurship fascinates and excites people from many walks of life

How often have you wanted to kick yourself when you see a new business that is based on hunch that occurred to you but never acted upon?

Unless you are a company of one, your firm has at least a few internal customers.

Some designers mistakenly believe that if they somehow make their product different, it is sure to succeed in the market

Just a few days ago, I wrote about how VCs can play a role in fixing Silicon Valley’s toxic bro culture.

Vikas Joshi was invited as a speaker and panelist at Altair’s ‘Design the Difference’ leadership conclave in Pune, India.

The topic of Silicon Valley’s toxic ‘bro culture’ is not particularly new

It is one of the classic dilemmas that almost every organization faces at some point

At Harbinger, our annual awards night is a highly-anticipated event.

Last month, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Murad Lala, an onco-surgeon at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai

This week, I’m happy to present a guest blog written by my friend Phil Bookman

Diverse teams generate strategic advantage by positively impacting your offerings.

Often, we tend to consider diversity solely from a social justice or equality viewpoint

In good times, it is relatively easy to have people on board with decisions

Entrepreneurs need to spend a lot of time explaining to the world how their offering is fundamentally different

Barnes and Noble. Nokia. Yahoo. There are tons of examples of companies that took all the right decisions

How do we look at resources?

Moana, Disney’s latest princess movie, is being hailed as a sign that Disney has finally caught up with the times

Every year the month of January witnesses heated discussions on the efficacy of New Year resolutions

Picture this: Your start-up has the opportunity to bag a big order from a top-name client

In 2009, a group of founders launched Tote, a location-savvy mobile shopping app

Although winning the first customer is a memorable event for any founder, successful startups work as though that first customer were already at the table

On November 8, the Indian Prime Minister announced to a stunned nation

By its very nature, entrepreneurship involves embarking upon an unfamiliar path and trying to achieve something new.

Back in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was excited when he discovered that electrical currents could exactly duplicate sound waves

A few months ago, I defended my doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania on the topic of Entrepreneurship

I had the privilege to welcome a networking dinner for alumni and managers at Harbinger Group earlier this month

Managers often struggle in coping with the different working styles of different team members

Harbinger Group's employee count has crossed 500 now.

M. R. Joshi, former director of Research & Development Establishment (Engineers), a DRDO institution, passed away recently.

Steve Jobs is no more.

Entrepreneurs – by definition – won’t accept things the way they are

When an organization grows rapidly, its members must keep up

Do the math. When you have a small team, you have 24 hours in a day to work with them

As a start-up grows from a few dozen employees to several hundred employees, and then to thousands

If the transition of a manager from tactical management to strategic management is big

How can you tell that a society is highly entrepreneurial?

Slides from the Harbinger presentation at Innovations 2011,

EMLYON Business School played host to the World Entrepreneurship Forum this morning

Sir Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC in Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world talked on developing entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid.

The highlight of the opening session was meeting everyone in person

Lyon, located on the eastern side of France, is known to be the absolute epitome of gastronomical France!

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by the University of Michigan professor Aneel Karnani builds on the premise that the business of business is business

Here is a simple list to remember, extracted from my speech at 20th Harbinger Group Annual Awards Function.

Like everyone else, the innovative entrepreneur sees the world and understands what is wrong with it

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our innate talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them

Tom Kelly, the author of The Art of Innovation, has proposed ten personas that innovators could assume in an organization

It is often hard to assess whether a new business idea is truly innovative

Why do small companies out-innovate large ones?

How does an innovation come about?