Ankoor Dasguupta 
I can say this as I have been on multiple Boards for past 5+ years. And in my discussions with my contemporaries and senior industry leaders, I am given to understand that for nearly two decades, leadership conversations in boardrooms revolved around visibility, execution, scale and performance. The ideal leader was often described as decisive, … Read more
Let me just start by saying “Capital markets are like telescopes, they are designed to observe what exists, not to fully comprehend what is just beginning to form beyond the visible horizon.” Every so often, however, something enters their field of view that forces a recalibration of focus. A potential SpaceX IPO is one such … Read more
I’d start by saying that every technological revolution eventually confronts an invisible boundary. For the steam engine, it was metallurgy. For the internet, it was bandwidth. For artificial intelligence, that boundary is energy. In the current discourse around AI, most conversations remain anchored in software – be it model size, data scale, or computational architecture. … Read more
My observation is that almost every technological revolution begins with abundance, too many players, too many promises. The industrial era had railroads. The internet had dot-coms. Artificial intelligence is now entering its own equivalent phase. If I put this into a form of a metaphor, in evolutionary biology, periods of rapid diversification are always followed … Read more
I was reading this paper where it says “Although the concept of political capital is not explicitly invoked, the qualities that women possess are assumed to be the sources of their influence. Thus, we invoke the political capital perspective to help make sense of this body of literature. “ Let me craft a metaphor to start … Read more
If I think of this as a metaphor, I’d say executive cross-border hiring today is much like relocating the captain of one ship to command another vessel in an entirely different ocean. The winds may be familiar, but the currents are not. The instruments may look similar, but the navigation rules have shifted. The promise … Read more
In this piece, I make an attempt to correlate circadian rhythm to cognitive authority. Leadership capability is often analyzed through frameworks of emotional intelligence, strategic foresight, communication style, and interpersonal influence. Yet an underlying regulatory system plays a decisive, often invisible role in shaping these capacities: the circadian rhythm. Far from being merely a sleep-wake … Read more
AI Anxiety: The Psychological Frontier of Leadership Let me start by saying that anxiety thrives in ambiguity and standing at the edge of an ocean of technology, we may be venturing into uncharted waters, unless we keep ourselves relevant by applying AI and also not getting controlled by the same in our daily lives. The … Read more
I recall the times when I started my career 25 years back. Was there AI? I’d say yes. Was I aware? I’d say not much. And many like me who were working in the midst of advertising technology were not aware of the depth automation can bring in. See, that time a brouhaha started around … Read more
Let me start with an example where the scale of a company is the task. In top leadership, my observation in the UK market is that interim management helps to ensure that complacency does not seep in. For instance, say a CIO will exactly know that when he has a limited time to bring in … Read more