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" Eat a live Frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day,” quipped Mark Twain. Hmmn….but the very thought of a Frog* scares the daylight out of many of us! We try to avoid it like the dainty Princess from “the Princess and the Frog” fairy tale. We often postpone big tasks, repeatedly. Big tasks look unappealing and meaningless at present. On the other hand, we love working on small, bite-sized tasks. Completing small tasks provides us with a sense of achievement. If you observe the working day of an average individual, it consists of ticking small jobs/tasks from a never ending to-do list. While completing small tasks provides a sense of accomplishment, the flurry of small tasks coming one’s way never seems to end. It is as if the to-do list is another “pimple episode” we fought off during our teenage years – the more we plucked it out, the more it appeared on our face. And in moments like these, time just flies, leaving behind a tra...

How Much Does Culture Enjoy Eating Strategy For Breakfast? ( first published in Business World on 6th April 2019) Company culture is often described as the personality of a company. While some management experts prefer to call it the backbone of a happy workforce or the glue which keeps a company together, it can also be compared to that of a ‘compass’ which keeps a company’s strategy well on its course. Ever since Peter Drucker, Father of Modern Management theory, coined the phrase “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast”, there has been a lot of debate in the corporate boardroom on what needs more focus – culture or strategy. However, reports on hyper-job-hopping witnessed among Gen Z and some high-profile exits due to sexual misconduct allegations, only allude to the fact that culture has a voracious appetite, and in particular, is fond of devouring ‘strategy’ which is cooked in a toxic oil of ‘constraining behaviours and beliefs’. A research by Deloitte states, that 94% of execut...