How Top CEOs Are Replacing Five-Year Plans With Real-Time Strategy
The image of a CEO sitting at the head of the sleek, polished boardroom table and crafting flawless five-year plans is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Today’s leadership is more dynamic, more authentic, less about control and more about impact. The most successful leaders now aren’t just strategic minds; they are catalysts of…
How the Dutch East India Company Created Modern Capitalism
An inspiring idea began to shine in a wet country house in Amsterdam in the spring of 1602, an idea that was to change the world forever. History did not repeat itself with a declaration of war or a royal wedding, but rather with an amazing corporate charter that year. The Dutch East India Company,…
Examining the Debate Around the Feeding India Concert
After 19 years of anticipation, Shakira was poised to light up India with performances in Mumbai on April 10 and New Delhi on April 15, 2026. Yet, just as the excitement was building, geopolitical tensions in West Asia cast a shadow, prompting organisers to cancel the shows due to security and logistical concerns. Originally billed…
How Deel Built a Billion-Dollar Global Hiring Platform
In the last five years, more change in the workplace has taken place than in the last fifty years. With COVID-19, remote work went from a niche to mainstream, leading companies to reconsider hiring, onboarding and payment for cross-border employees. At the heart of this transformation is the platform Deel, founded in 2019, billed as…
How a Small Village Challenged the British Empire in 1917
The first major civil disobedience movement to be initiated by Gandhi was the Champaran Satyagraha in the small district of Champaran in Northern Bihar, which was a centre of revolutionary activity in April 1917. It redefined the freedom struggle and his identity in the struggle. Being predominantly agricultural, the area was poor and oppressed by…
Leadership Lessons from Dr T.V Ra0
In the mid-1970s, when personnel departments in India were often viewed merely as administrative back offices, a pioneering professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was quietly redefining organisational perspectives on people. This was none other than Dr T.V Rao. Over the following 50 years, Dr Rao would develop India’s first Human Resource Development…
Inside TheHog.ai’s AI Command Centre for Customer Acquisition
Finding and engaging the right customers is more difficult than building products in today’s rapidly changing landscape of startups and scaling companies. Traditional tools provide isolated or outdated data that require manual calculations. Customers have become unpredictable across various platforms and communities, making outreach challenging. This creates a paradox: the more effort involved, the less…
Leadership Lessons from Shripad Nadkarni
The consumer economy in India has never been a barrier to ambition. What it has sometimes lacked is patience, especially when valuations soar well above revenues and storytelling can overshadow substance. Shripad Nadkarni operates quietly in this landscape. Over the decades, as a multinational executive, entrepreneur, and advisor, he has demonstrated that true leadership isn’t…
How Companies Can Honour ESG Expectations Without Undermining Growth
CEOs around the globe face a dilemma: should they focus on immediate profits or invest in a purpose that ensures future profitability? Today, this choice is becoming less distinct. Sustainability goals are increasingly integrated into core strategies, and forward-thinking companies no longer view ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) as merely an expense. Instead, they view…
Why HR Tech is Accelerating Burnout Instead of Reducing it
Many believe technology will end burnout, but the reality is more complex. While organisations rapidly adopt HR tech, automation, and AI to streamline work, these tools often backfire, fueling stress and driving away top talent. Recent surveys confirm that employees’ true feelings point to a different story. The Promise and Paradox HR technology was designed…
