-- After a career break of nearly ten years, my friend Radha decided to return to work. I was genuinely happy for her. She had given up her career soon after her marriage and had long resented that decision. Once her son moved to higher classes, she felt it was time to reclaim her professional life and rejoin her former employer. A couple of weeks later, I checked in on her. She mentioned there was just one problem. Her husband, Muthukumar, returned home by 6 p.m., while she

Lessons from Seven Decades -- Introduction "Nobody knows what strategy is."  – The Economist Few concepts in business are as widely discussed yet as poorly understood as strategy. In countless boardrooms, classrooms, and executive off-sites, the word is used to mean everything from setting goals and writing mission statements to launching marketing campaigns and cutting costs. No wonder when you ask a group of executives “What is strategy?” , the answers range wildly. For som

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