Srinath Sridharan
-
The Career Ladder Is Becoming A Treadmill
We were taught to climb towards success. Now the climb itself has become the job.
-
Medicine Pricing: Where Must Profit Stop?
Healthcare needs profitable businesses, but patients need affordable treatment. India must confront excessive margins, hidden incentives and regulatory gaps that threaten the integrity of medicine.
-
You May Inherit The Business. You Must Earn Its Credibility.
For India's next generation of business leaders, a family name may open doors. Earning the confidence of employees, customers and investors requires competence, judgement and the ability to lead on one's own merit.
-
When Everyone Has AI, What Gives You An Edge?
India's young workforce is entering an uncertain world of work where powerful AI tools are becoming widely accessible. The advantage will belong to those who combine deep expertise with digital fluency, and the distinctly human capabilities that technology cannot manufacture.
-
Why Is Everyone At Work Pretending To Understand AI?
As companies rush to declare themselves AI-ready, employees are being asked to adapt to tools and expectations that many leaders have yet to understand themselves. Gen Z may be more comfortable experimenting with AI, but genuine AI literacy requires more than knowing which tool to open.
-
AI Is Making GenZ Productive. Who Will Make Them Work-Experienced?
As AI takes over entry-level work, companies face a new challenge: how to develop the human judgement and experience that once came from doing that work and learning from mistakes.
-
7 Career Truths For An Uncertain Working Life
Insecurity, FOMO, career disappointments and AI-driven change are reshaping how professionals think about success, relevance and security. The answer lies in building capability, protecting integrity and creating a life that remains meaningful beyond the next promotion or job.
-
Who Will Care When Women Work? That Is The Wrong Question
The debate on women and work becomes strangely patronising when even our most enlightened elites assume that care is a woman's natural duty.
-
The #NextGen Who Has Never Failed
Inherited advantage can create a blind spot when the NextGen has had too little exposure to consequence. Succession becomes stronger when successors earn responsibility before they inherit consequential authority.
-
When NextGen Doesn't Need To Work, Then What?
For earlier generations, succession meant finding someone capable of carrying the family business forward. For increasingly wealthy business families, a harder question is emerging: how do you prepare the next generation for responsibility and purpose when they no longer need the business, or even a job, to live well?
-
Every Family Business Has A Memory
A family business passes down more than shares, wealth and responsibility. It also carries old loyalties, childhood roles, sacrifices, disappointments and unfinished arguments, often shaping decisions long after the people and events that created them have disappeared.
-
Why India's Next Growth Story Begins With Young Indians
India's demographic dividend has become a confidence dividend. Preserving it may prove as important as adopting artificial intelligence.
-
The Invisible Contract Between Promoters And Their Children
The most consequential agreement in a business family is rarely discussed. Long before succession becomes a boardroom decision, parents and children begin negotiating expectations that shape leadership, identity and the future of the enterprise.
-
The Best Successor Isn't You
Many business leaders unconsciously search for younger versions of themselves. Enduring institutions do the opposite - they mentor successors with different strengths, different leadership styles and the confidence to lead a different future.
-
'Lack Of Communication' Is Business Families' Most Expensive Risk
Many business families are damaged not by conflict, but by conversations that never take place. Enduring enterprises are sustained not merely by shared ownership, but by the courage to address difficult truths before silence turns them into crises.
