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For decades, senior executives have been the backbone of industries. They built companies, scaled operations, and navigated complexity with discipline...
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TAM Would Have Killed Tesla. And BYD Would Never Have Been Funded. In the early 2000s, if you had asked...
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Every day on LinkedIn, I see a flood of well-meaning advice on what a pitch deck should contain. The usual...
Read MoreWhy Funded Startups Still Fail: An Innovation Readiness Wake-Up Call
And what Indian founders and investors must learn from the 2023–2025 collapse wave. Over the last two years, India has...
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This blog was published under the title What does long-term focus mean in the corporate world? by me in 2021...
Read MorePush and Pull Innovation
Based on an article originally published on my blog in 2019. Updated for new context. When Innovation Pushes vs. When...
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