Leadership
Executive leadership and management
AI will not replace leaders. It will expose them
Executive Take
Vague goals and weak accountability structures used to hide inside slow human processes. AI runs them at scale and speed, so any gap in your judgment or governance shows up fast and publicly.
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Women shaping India’s chip future take centre stage at Semicon India 2026
Executive Take
India's chip strategy depends on a talent pool it hasn't fully tapped yet. The real test is whether companies turn these four leaders into a pipeline, not just a panel.
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The quiet reason CIOs are slowing AI down
Executive Take
Blocking AI to protect your authority backfires because employees route around you anyway, and you lose visibility instead of control. The fix is using AI tools yourself daily and judging governance by reversibility, not by risk fear.
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Tying Purpose to Performance
Executive Take
Pearson shows purpose becomes real only when it's scored in leader evaluations, not just printed on a wall. Measuring it changed behavior within a year, without new policy or spend.
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Tim Cook parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder
Executive Take
Cook is framing this as a return to engineering-led leadership after his own operations-focused tenure. Expect Apple's next era to lean harder into hardware innovation over supply chain optimization.
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The case for common sense at work
Executive Take
Every blanket policy written for the rare bad actor punishes everyone else and erodes trust. Leaders who default to new rules over judgment calls are training their managers to stop deciding anything.
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The AI credibility gap: You can’t lead what you haven’t actually used
Executive Take
A leader who has never used AI on their hardest, most reputation-defining work cannot judge it accurately. Delegating that judgment to teams without lived experience produces strategy that looks confident but is actually hollow.
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Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
Executive Take
A CEO transition at Apple during a major product launch tests Ternus immediately in public. Investors and employees will read his handling of this event as an early signal of his leadership style.
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How friction can spark creativity at work
Executive Take
Teams that punish disagreement quietly kill their best ideas. Leaders should reward people who push back, not just people who agree fast.
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Looking for a CEO successor? Check your board of directors
Executive Take
Boards are becoming CEO talent pools, not just oversight bodies. Directors who spend real time with the company can move faster and take bigger bets once they take the top job.
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Why IT projects still fail
Executive Take
AI is now a new failure trigger, not just a fix. Teams that speed up coding with AI but don't add reviewers or change managers will ship faster mistakes, not faster wins.
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Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Executive Take
A senior Meta leader jumping to OpenAI signals AI talent now sees more upside outside Big Tech's ad-driven giants. Expect more APAC leadership churn as OpenAI builds out regional teams.
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5 hard truths of change management
Executive Take
Stop funding transformation as one big bet. Release funding in stages tied to measurable results, and make your CHRO and CFO co-owners of the change, not just informed stakeholders.
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Executive alignment is a transformation accelerator. Can CIOs unlock its value?
Executive Take
A confident CIO does not mean a convinced CEO. If your board and tech chief measure AI success differently, your AI budget is at risk regardless of the technology's actual performance.
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SUSE Women in Technology event: Why AI’s next opportunity is also a leadership test
Executive Take
Companies that fund AI pilots without clear accountability are wasting money. Leaders who keep women confined to AI governance roles will miss out on their talent for building the actual products and models.
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The more efficient AI makes us, the more human we must become
Executive Take
Cutting costs with AI will not keep customers loyal by itself. Leaders need to spend the time AI frees up on building trust with people, not just speed.
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The decision line
Executive Take
Governance frameworks manage AI risk but do not tell you where AI belongs in your business. That call is a leadership decision, not a technical one, and skipping it means it gets made by default.
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The CIO as a capital allocator: Why the best CIOs think like investors, not engineers
Executive Take
CIOs who cannot justify spend in investor terms will lose budget fights to CFOs. Boards should start asking CIOs the same questions they ask portfolio managers: what's the return and what are you giving up.
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OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
Executive Take
A nine-month CRO tenure signals OpenAI still hasn't settled on how to run enterprise sales at scale. Expect continued turnover until the company builds a stable go-to-market leadership team.
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Why people, not technology, drive digital transformation
Executive Take
Training alone doesn't change behavior. Leaders need to tie skill-building directly to recognition, pay, and recruitment or it stays theoretical.
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AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers
Executive Take
If middle managers get no real support, AI rollouts stall no matter how good the strategy looks on a slide. Fix this by giving managers training and authority before you set adoption targets.
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How to level up from IT management to IT leadership
Executive Take
Technical skill alone no longer gets someone into the C-suite. Boards want tech leaders who can explain business value in plain terms and build trust across departments.
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Lawsuit alleges Sony investigated WPP's media operation and said it ran a 'global crime scheme'
Executive Take
A major client's own investigators reportedly documented the alleged scheme, not just a disgruntled ex-employee. That raises the stakes for WPP well beyond one lawsuit and could reshape how advertisers audit agency rebate deals.
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Sudhir Sitapati steps down as GCPL MD & CEO, Aasif Malbari to take over
Executive Take
A CFO stepping into the CEO seat signals GCPL wants tighter financial discipline over growth ambitions. Watch how Malbari's Africa experience shapes GCPL's emerging market strategy in the next two quarters.
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Why Leaders Need To Deal With Toxic Employees
Executive Take
Culture is not what you write in a values statement. It is what you allow to happen when no one is watching.
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Why Crisis Readiness Is An Underrated PR KPI
Executive Take
Most companies only measure PR after a crisis hits, not before. Waiting until then means you're improvising your response instead of executing a plan.
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Air India turnaround could take up to a decade: N Chandrasekaran
Executive Take
A decade-long timeline signals Tata is managing investor expectations, not just fixing operations. Leaders should watch how long external shocks like fuel costs and safety fallout can be blamed before internal execution gets judged.
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The new advantage in the age of AI: Building in the real world
Executive Take
Data center buildouts and AI infrastructure plans will live or die on permitting, grid capacity, and construction timelines capabilities most tech and HR leaders have never had to manage in-house.
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Model the Transformation You Expect Employees to Deliver
Executive Take
If a CEO demands agility or AI adoption from staff while keeping their own workflow, meetings, and decision-making untouched, the transformation stalls regardless of the messaging budget behind it.
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Why I changed how I pitch AI: It’s no longer about saving money, but managing tokens and adoption
Executive Take
Budget owners who model AI ROI on flat $25-30/user tiers are setting up next year's finance team for a consumption-pricing surprise; the real planning variable is token volume, not seat count.
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Companies winning with AI operate differently. Here’s how.
Executive Take
Adoption metrics like tool counts and pilot numbers are now vanity metrics; the real audit leaders need is whether decision cycles, ownership structures, and approval chains have actually changed shape.
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CIOs risk being sidelined in enterprise AI initiatives
Executive Take
The CIOs who survive this reorganisation will be the ones who claim AI governance questions output ownership, review, rollback before a CAIO or CEO does; those defending IT budgets as cost centers are already losing the argument.
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AI success requires a full-stack CIO
Executive Take
CIOs should treat operating-model clarity and decision rights as the actual AI bottleneck, not tooling or talent investing in governance embedded in daily workflows will outperform standalone AI councils or centers of excellence.
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The Global Scaling Gap: Why Strategic Clarity Is Crucial in the Age of AI
Executive Take
Leaders building or investing in non-hub ventures should treat AI tools as amplifiers of a defined competitive advantage, not substitutes for one, and resist both premature global expansion and default reliance on locally familiar tools without scrutiny.
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Chokepoints: How to respond when the global economy gets squeezed
Executive Take
Leaders should treat supply-chain resilience as an ongoing operating discipline, not a one-time contingency plan triggered by crises like Hormuz tensions.
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‘Human-led, AI-powered’: Companies redefined leadership ‘mantra’
Executive Take
Leaders should treat AI readiness as a workforce and capability-building priority, not just a technology rollout, or risk deploying tools that employees and managers aren't equipped to use effectively.
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How Leaders Unlock Innovation on the Front Lines
Executive Take
Organizations cutting middle-management layers to prepare for AI are removing the exact role that converts front-line insight into implemented improvement, so leaders should audit any flattening initiative against innovation-pipeline impact before executing it.
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Sponsor mismatch is the silent killer of enterprise transformation
Executive Take
Executives should treat sponsor selection and onboarding as a formal transformation-capability exercise, not a hierarchy assignment, and program leads should proactively reframe delivery-practice questions as business-risk tradeoffs rather than defending methodology.
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Infosys names insider Ashiss Kumar Dash next CEO
Executive Take
Infosys is signaling a preference for internal continuity over external disruption, giving markets and clients an unusually long lead time to assess Dash before he assumes control.
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Hindustan Zinc names Amarendu Prakash as new CEO
Executive Take
A public-sector veteran taking the helm of Vedanta-owned Hindustan Zinc signals the company may be prioritizing operational discipline and government-relations experience over insider continuity as it navigates the metals cycle.
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