
Why Emotions Are First Principles in Product Strategy
Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
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Products succeed when they answer what people feel, not just what they need
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor

John Kay—one of the world’s leading thinkers on economics, corporate purpose, and capitalism—explores why individualism remains so deeply entrenched, even as it fuels inequality, populism, and institutional decay. Part 1 of a two-part conversation
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The real job of management is managing the not always compatible expectations of stakeholders, says John Kay. The organizations that have been successful in the long run are the ones that managed these balances. Part 2 of a two-part conversation
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Inside the growing chorus of doubt from AI’s own pioneers
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist

Beneath the chatter about chatbots, a deeper contest is unfolding—between nations, companies, and scientists racing to build the AI that will control life itself
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group

Inspired by Brisbane’s “Vibrantly Vacant” windows—on how renewal begins in life’s pauses
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change

The government is not as a machine to fix, but a living system to serve: a conversation with Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur, author, and public servant
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Tariffs were designed for a world of steel and sugar. They’re hopelessly out of sync with the quantum-entangled world of semiconductors
Shishir Prasad
Senior Business Journalist

India’s youngest workers live at the intersection of abundance and anxiety, ambition and restraint. To engage with them, leaders must learn to work with paradox, not against it
Abhijoy Gandhi
CEO | Glue Inc

In a world of echo chambers, courage and curiosity keep us honest
Kavi Arasu
Works at the intersection of people, systems, and organisational change

Britain and India survive budget battles. The US turns them into a national pastime
Sachin Garg
Independent Public Policy Consultant

The visa fee has sent shockwaves through the global talent ecosystem. What does this mean for U.S. startups, Indian engineers, and the future of innovation?
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Around the world, families are fighting back against AI harms. Why is India still silent?
Sundeep Waslekar
President | Strategic Foresight Group

Seven takeaways from a conversation with President Barack Obama’s speechwriter
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An extract from Barack Obama’s speechwriter Terry Szuplat’s new book, ‘Say It Well’
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