Me/Us

Listening to Others

Focuses on communication, empathy, understanding different perspectives, and the art of meaningful dialogue in personal, professional, and societal contexts.

Reading Ideas

Time for triple-loop thinking? Are we asking the right questions?
A Democratic Citizen's Duty to Protest
A Caring Society
A Feminine View Can Make the World Much Better
Rural Transformation and a New Economics
What We the People want Now
A Circular Economy for More Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
A Country is not a Corporation; Social Enterprise is not Business
The Economy is not Fair to Less Powerful People and Nations-1
Make in India to make India's economy stronger
AI May Push Humans to the Sidelines
Reimagining India's Public Sector: A Blueprint for Transformation
Women, Families, and Caring
Improving the Economy for Everyone
Techno-optimism over AI is crowding out concerns of equity
A Time to Re-regulate, not to De-regulate
Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, and the Future
AI cannot Re-form India's Aspirational and Frustrated Economy
Time to Think for Ourselves about Ourselves
Dr. Manmohan Singh's Social Charter for Business Leaders
How India's economy can catch up with that of China
Reflecting together on the sands of time
AI, Capitalism, and Ethics
India, the Tatas, and Ratan
The Values that Govern Us-Part 1
The Values that Govern Us-Part 2
Money power trumps human values
Global roadmap for healthy longevity
The Washington Consensus has ended and it won't be mourned
Poly-crisis highlights limits of global economic models
Scenarios of India's future
Tatas the Nation-builders
Bazaar and Sarkar have pushed Samaj out of the Indian state
Realigning Bazaar, Sarkar, and Samaj
Old Thinking in a New Tank
Viksit Bharat needs a new paradigm
Putting the Wind beneath the Indian Economy's Sails
The Value of a Human Life
CARING: The Economics and Ethics of Aging Societies
Justice for All Requires Listening to All
Killing Nature to Increase Wealth
The Laws of Systems for Justice
Provide a Visible Hand: Put Humanity into Capitalism
Safeguarding human dignity: practicing humanity
Systems Science for a Better Future
A Better Way to Shape Our Future
Changing the Growth Paradigm
A World on the Edge: An Ode to Books, JLF
Civil Society Must Reform Itself
Finding Leaders Who Improve the World for Everyone
My New Year Wish for India and Palestine
The World Needs New Ideas of Progress
Gandhiji's advice to young managers and old policy-makers
Transforming Capitalism to Make the World Better for Everyone
How Capitalism corrupts Democracy
The Wisdom and Resilience of Older Women: Five African stories
India's Challenges and Options
REPAIRING THE TORN FABRIC OF DEMOCRACY
Setting the G20 agenda: Bringing more Equity into Economies
A new Economics for a new World
Women and workers will bring the world together
Crony capitalism is baked into the capitalist market economy
Giving common people control of their own communities
India's Century: How to drive sustainable, inclusive growth?
HOW WILL WE MOVE INTO A NEW PARADIGM OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY?
A New Paradigm for Economic Policy
Laws cannot make a country democratic
The Moral and Intellectual Crises in India's Economic Policies
A Conflict of Business and Social Values
India and the G20: Changing the paradigm of progress
Scenarios for the Future of India and the World
The power within fireflies can improve the world for everyone
The Shape of the Indian Economy Must Change
Reconnecting Business Enterprises with Society
REPAIRING A DISORDERED WORLD BOTTOM UP
India@100: Reaching our Tryst with Destiny
Science and Economics Need a Reset, and New Conversations
Movements for transforming systems on scale
Solutions by the people, for the people
Business corporations are not good citizens of society
NITI Aayog: Cooperative Federalism Fillip or Failure?
Hard truths about India's labour reforms
My letter to my grandson on India@75
CHANGING THE COURSE OF LABOR REFORMS
Sharing power with next generations
Thinking about thinking: putting the soul in the machine
New Ways Needed to Solve Global Problems
The Incompleteness of Scientific Knowledge: Returning to Wisdom
A New Science for Global Governance
People, not courts, shape norms
What law will rule India@75?
Bharat: One Country, One Destiny
Counting Daisies?
Ways of Mass Dialogue: the WMD We Want
India’s role in a disordered world
The mood of Indian voters
Why even Good Companies can do Bad things
What Money Can't Buy
Journeys of Learning and Change
Rebuild India the Gandhian way
The politics of wealth creation
Widen Level Playing Fields
Zoom meetings: Have they helped or harmed?
Becoming a civil society
Enterprises For the People By the People
Industry leaders and country builders
A WHITE TOUCH TO A REFRESHED GREEN REVOLUTION
The power of the local to create impact on scale
First reform the process of making economic reforms
The Big Cop Out in Glasgow
Clues to Living Well
The Complications Humans Create in Complex Systems
The Games We Play with Each Other
The climate crisis: We need cooperation, not competition
Young Leaders Rising in India
Economists' over-simplified models harm complex social systems
The Young and Change
THE NEXT STEP IN DEMOCRATIC EVOLUTION IS OVERDUE
Democracy's Missing Middle
Fix the process of reforming policies, and listen to people
The Indian government must rethink its strategy to create jobs
The Listening Deficit
A New Architecture for Global Governance
2021: The Time to Act
In agri-reforms, go back to the drawing board
Listen to the less powerful
Spinning a new world, post-Covid, that is better for everyone
Fixing the Rules of the Economy
Post-Covid world must reduce distorting power of global capital
‘Shares’ vs ‘values’ conflict in business
Should Tatas have advertised for social harmony
Transforming systems is key to policy gains
My Vision of India...
The great scramble of millions to board India’s economic bus
Enabling people to govern themselves
Effective coalitions form bottom up, not top down
Recoupling the economy with society
A new economy good for everyone
A long haiku about my locked-down mind
JRD Tata — the democratic capitalist
The used and discarded workers of India
Opinion | A new economy must take shape once this crisis passes
For an economy driven by compassion
It is time to revisit how civil society engages with politics
Thinking national, acting local
What is the shape of the new economy we will build?
Opinion | A chance to heal a world divided by invisible barriers
A time to heal
Listening to the call of the informal
Opinion | There’s a Gandhian third way for an inclusive economy
“Constructive Work”- A new vision for India's economy
Opinion | In an age of uncertainty, what'll be the next big turn?
Who do economists serve, really?
India needs a bottom-up growth model
The crux of unity in diversity
Opinion | Our economy needs ‘hard work’ as much as ‘Harvard’
Opinion | The case for a holistic approach to policy formulation
Systems thinking for improving policy outcomes
Conversations in a noisy place
Some lessons in bottom-up growth from China and India too
Economies of scope: Singapore’s alternative approach to progress
Discovering real economics for citizens’ benefits
Education: Richness and Reach
Reinventing the business corporation
Reinventing the governance of the business corporation
Opinion | Our economy needs a systems thinking-based solution
Democracy and its discontents
A process to get industry going and create more jobs
Opinion | Proper scenario-planning for the country’s future
A new approach to industrial policy
Economics for the People
The economics of real things for real people
Why economists can’t explain Modi’s win
Is NITI Aayog old wine in a new bottle?
Opinion | A business redesign to make capitalism more inclusive
Beyond the free trade idealism
The human side of ‘Industry 4.0’
The purpose of a capitalist enterprise
First priority: an employment and incomes policy
Opinion | The Theory X and Theory Y of India’s economic reforms
Good Jobs, not Universal Basic Income
Good jobs for a good society
Some Gandhian tips for Davos leaders
The shape of growth matters
From smart cities to well-governed cities
Why incomes, jobs aren’t rising fast enough
Who will robots and elephants vote for: Donald Trump or Xi Jinpin
Opinion | The many problems of India’s missing middle
What will happen after the 2019 elections
High growth alone is not the answer
Opinion | Social harmony is good for economic growth
CSOs: A time to reform
Learning to learn
Private enterprise, no panacea for scams
Designing a good business enterprise
A common man’s view of India’s progress
The purpose of the enterprise
Telling the story of Aadhar
A bottom-up approach to achieving UN SDGs
Changing the course of corporate Titanic
India’s deteriorating public discourse
Coming together as one nation
Will technology destroy democracy?
To tackle the Indian economy’s woes, create more jobs
More jobs for more growth
We must listen to others' perspectives
The corporate values of Infosys
Humanity in search of a new narrative
The technology of democracy
Focus on humans rather than robots
The paradox of progress
The fraying fabric of liberal democracy
Business leaders must learn to listen
The values business leaders choose to live by
Solutions for responsible business in the new globalization
How the media has let down democracy
India in the World 2035
Seven imperatives for job creation in India
A wake-up call for business leaders
Why is economic theory behind the curve?
Listening to people not like us
Listening to them—and shaping our future together
Solving India’s problem of jobless growth
Building trust in an age of mistrust
The gap between GDP and the SDGs
Fixing India’s jobs machine
Economics needs a new paradigm
Our great nation and its symbols
Entrepreneurship to improve the world for everyone
Intellectual property rights: When it’s broken, fix it!
Can ‘Make in India’ fly?
Implementation and the productivity of the Indian economy
The world needs a new economics
Yesterday’s strategies will not work in tomorrow’s world
Five levels of business responsibility
Climbing the ladder of business responsibility
Rethinking the business of business
When aspirations collide with realities
Frustrated freedoms: When aspirations collide with realities
A time to talk and not tweet
A new vision for Make in India
A nation of good listeners
The Internet, society, and liberty
Capitalism corrupting the Internet
Getting India to work again
India’s discordant democrats
Getting to the truth about ourselves
What we really want
Mistaking parts for the whole
Mismeasuring our progress to futures we may not want
A 21st-century Planning Commission
California and India's Planning Commission
By the people
Redesigning the airplane while flying: Reforming Institutions
Industry’s missing middle
Why I am an India optimist
India: a laggard among its peers
A vision of sustainable growth
We can do better
India’s implementation deficit
India's 2% CSR law: The first country to go backwards
Cracking the growth conundrum
The values we choose to live by
Rebuilding the map of economics
Developing a roadmap for the economy
Civil services fit for the future
A vision for India
The appreciating assets of manufacturing enterprises
India: Animal spirits or animal farm?
India: Animal spirits, Animal farm?
Learning to get things done
India Backbone Implementation Network
Points of light to pools of light
Powering up reforms
The institutional way
Whither India?
Federalism and fireflies
It’s Not Just the Economy Stupid
Innovations to improve the performance of government
The mother of all reforms
Making the world round again
Rubber band fixes and governance reforms
It is time for Plan C
If only we would all agree
Changing mindsets for inclusive growth
Including, through conversation
Ideas that hinder inclusive growth
Markets, trust and growth
What does it mean to be ‘political’?
Note to myself in Croatia
Localization, not globalization
Letter to Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
Igniting the truth within
From Davos to Sundernagari
The 'WMD' we much proliferate
India: Many million fireflies now
Freedom to lead
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