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Encouraging disagreements at workplace could lead to more innovations  (first published in Business World on 8th May 2018) When Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, said that Indians lacked creativity, millions of Indians were left shell-shocked. According to Wozniak, it is the “risk-averse culture” which prevents Indians from experimenting and innovating. This audacious claim, though, could be a cause of disagreement, as India prides itself of a vibrant culture even amidst average socio-economic conditions. Nevertheless, it looks like Wozniak has opened the “Pandora’s Box,” which was left untouched in the corporate arena for a long time. In fact, even the Indian tech czar NR Narayana Murthy has lamented this fact a while ago, when he said, “There has not been a single earth-shaking invention from India in the last 60 years that became a household name globally." Creativity, it seems, springs only from an atmosphere of trust, respect, and empowerment. And the question ev...

Malcolm Muggeridge, the English journalist, once remarked “ The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact .” We are living in times where the distinction between right and wrong is almost non-visible. However, what is more shocking is not the fact there are many who aren't bothered about this distinction anymore, but the fact there are millions, for whom something else is more important than this "very distinction" which makes life worth living. For some toddlers, gaining access to the broken toy of another toddler is more important than his/her own costly toy. For some school going children, gaining one-upmanship at class is more important than preserving an unblemished face free from a bloody nose and black eyes. For some college going teens, gazing into a smartphone is more important than looking into the eyes of his/her friend who i...