The Medium is the Mess
Almost 60 years back, the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message” to focus attention...
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Storm the Norm
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Ep 31: Innovation at global companies only serves the niche
As we reflect upon MNC after MNC and how they’ve gone about their journeys in India, the three things that strike you immediately are: they...
Ep 30: Despite WFH, moonlighting, quiet quitting and ESOPs, employees' destinies will always be decided by employers.
Regardless of how progressive or woke an organization is, employees always start from a position of disadvantage, negotiating their way to a...
Ep 29: The start-up economy today is only about moving money, not value creation
“The start-up economy today is only about moving money, not value creation.” This is the provocative norm we posed to veteran Fund Managing...
EP 28 - In a world that’s all about the Web3 bubble, there’s no room for chewing gum bubbles.
In a world that’s all about the Web3 bubble, there’s no place for chewing gum bubbles. Now, that’s a big and provocative norm to challenge a...
Can Crypto & Blockchain survive without each other?
Can we separate cryptocurrencies from blockchains? Are coins a necessary part of securing a public blockchain? There is a widespread public...
Ep27 - Human trust can never be replaced by algorithmic trust
First time ever in India, a podcast from one of world’s best blockchain & token economic specialist from Israel, Mr. Jonathan Caras telling...
Ep26 - To foster business resilience, size is the best insulation against shock
The Covid-19 crisis exposed stark differences in the fortunes of different small and medium-sized businesses. Larger businesses did have an...
EP25 - Audio has always been a poor cousin of video, whether in the analog age or in the digital age
A picture speaks a thousand words. Indeed. But it is what you hear orally that stays with you for time immemorial. Even before video or the...
STN Ep 24 - It's easier for start-ups than for established businesses to turn around
Is it easier for startups than for established businesses to turn around? Just think about it..mature organisations have established not jus...
STN EP 23 - Doomed to be deemed boring: Not every profession can be creative
Creativity needs chaos. Structure constrains lateral thinking. And so, many professions have no option but to think inside the box. Or do th...
StormtheNorm #6: Most Indian Start-ups have towering valuations but no sign of profit
Has it become an acceptable norm to prioritise valuation over value creation when running a start-up? If yes, why is this trend embraced lik...
Ep 21: CSR has now become a corporate social regulation as against corporate social responsibility
As the world faces multiple crisis, there is an increasing need for corporates to come together and help the civil society. It is equally im...
Ep 20: The Future belongs to the Fast
This norm—that the future belongs to the fast—feels as old as time itself. Aesop articulated it with the fable of the hare and the tortoise....
Ep 19: 2021 will be about norming storms, not storming norms
In August 2020, this story about the Choluteca Bridge in Honduras went viral and made many a LinkedIn profile get their 15 seconds of fame....
Nationalistic brands will have an edge over global brands in the post-Covid era.
This norm may sound pretty obvious—and familiar, because it is an inescapable one these days, given the socio-political climate, not just in...
Challenger brands have to swim harder than the leader to stay in the same place
What are the rules of winning for challenger brands? But first, what makes a challenger brand? What differentiates them from market follower...
Storm The Norm 16: Indian boards are more statutory than strategic, end up as rubber stamps
What really makes for a great board? The turn of the century saw the collapse of Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Adelphia, 2008 saw the collapse of L...
Storm the Norm 15: Traditional media businesses & their traditional revenue models are doomed
The irony of this norm is that it’s staring at us, but that change seems to be so long in coming, when the norm has been actually crying out...
Storm The Norm 14: Indian Startup Ecosystem is at Best a Clone of its Global Counterparts
At a time when the Indian Government is ruthlessly banning Chinese apps and pushing the Indian Start-up eco-system to raise their game, the...