Rakesh Wadhwa:
It is a massive decision, you know truly a remarkable decision. How did you involve your employees in such a decision process? That's the first question. TCS is…
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I think it's pretty reasonable that the idea is not to say that nobody will come to the office or just don't do the office. I think people will be working from …
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Do you see reverse migration of IT professionals or for that matter any professionals to tier two and tier three city? We've been facing the situation that peop…
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If this work from home or work from remote locations becomes a way to go do you see, this will also lead to compensation adjustments? Organizations will be abl…
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For marketing and sales professionals, there's a paradigm shift, especially the ones who were relying on face to face interaction, building relationships, meeti…
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This is moving away slightly from the future of the workplace. With the social distancing norms, safety protocol requirements, are we heading to scale disruptio…
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What would be your advice to companies who are still not embarked on this journey? How might they go about this digital transformation of their organization? Be…
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As a result of this ongoing crisis also there will be a case, a lot of businesses who are trying to grow, midsize businesses, they will be pushed out and it wil…
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Businesses or business models are transforming from product-based model to service-based model. What organizations can do to ensure that the workforce adopts th…
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What would be your advice to our audience who are possibly early in their career or at mid-level in their career journey and want to grow and head the function?…
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What about the future of schools and educational institutions, because everything is going online. And given that school's possibly the last ones to open, how d…
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What is the future of ready to eat food? Is that people are going to explore given everybody is sick of sitting home and preparing their own food.
Rama B…
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Since last year, agriculture has grown at about two to three times. From your study, the hope is actually on agriculture to do well. And in turn impact the cons…
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Would you expect a gradual shift in, going back to old ways once, you know, these things become normal, if at all, they can never become normal. Or do you see a…
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You serve on the board of many companies and you advise them all the time about their marketing strategies. What would be your advice to businesses? Should they…
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What is your view about functions in organizations like innovation, R & D in these times. Should organizations be treating them as liability, or these reall…
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Given the current situation where capital is scarce and everybody is trying to conserve it, what do you think about startups in the absence of capital? How will…
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What happens to consumer loyalty?
Rama Bijapurkar:
I think as long as you continue to deliver the value advantage, you will have greater loyalty at th…
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Indian are very price sensitive and have a difficulty, accepting the price mentally, irrespective of their socioeconomic background. So does branding and stra…
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What career advice would you want to give to our audience over here who are looking at building a career in marketing, let's say at a middle level, and they h…
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In a crisis situation like these, there is a separation between need and desire categories. So people become more rational and they start scrutinizing their exp…
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The book in search of excellence was published in 1982. It's been nearly four decades now, and the business world has changed so dramatically ever since. The th…
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How do you define a leader then? How do you define leadership?
Tom Peters:
There is an American movie director by the name of Robert Altman w…
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What are your thoughts about organizations making profits to be able to serve people? Should that not be the first point to emphasize after purpose? Or shoul…
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The first two of your 29 number ones, talk about training and preparing employees to be better, but training people to what end? Today all People intensive and …
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Being a leader or a CEO is a tough job. They must balance the need to deliver quarterly results those 90 days. And they also need to decide if they must have ti…
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Rakesh Wadhwa:
How should SMEs, backbone of the Indian economy as well, approach this pandemic situations? Because they may not have the capital to bring latest technology…
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That's after the initial shock of this event, everybody seems to be talking about pivoting. So how necessary is that or does it make more sense to keep focus…
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There's a lot of buzz around working from home or working remote, and a lot of people have been talking about it, a lot of big organizations, have made some big…
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You've worked with many CEOs, many entrepreneurs, and a lots of great people. What do you think, their biggest challenge or challenges have been when it comes i…
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You have a great idea, and you're starting a company, it's a billion dollar idea with a global vision and you want to hyper scale it in a short period and ca…
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How can companies establish a culture of idea generation or innovation? There may be some fundamental changes that one would have to make in the organization. S…
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What are the ways in which leaders can build adaptive intelligence?
Keith Coats:
So I would look no further than those four areas. We call that the …
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Since you're a futurist, what do you see disappearing from the world, a product or service or a way of doing things as the result of this pandemic.
Keith…
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Not every business is capable of setting up online. So how do you see that playing out for small and medium scale enterprises going forward?
Keith Coats…
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A lot is being said about work from home, remote as a result of this pandemic. And that's something which a lot of organizations are seeing as a real benefit on…
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What would be your message to all our audience who are in the middle of their career, somewhere between five to 10 years?
Keith Coats:
That would depe…
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Do SMBs have the capability of digital transformation during these times when budgets are very very tight?
Mani G:
This is one of the key questions th…
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is there any need for entrepreneurial ventures to develop the strategies for addressing digital labor in their workforce?
Vivek Puthucode:
I think tha…
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How do smaller businesses cope up with the ever-changing technology?
Vivek Puthucode:
First the SMEs handle the challenge of being top of the visible app …
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What are the risks to be kept in mind while going digital? Especially if we look at it from the lens of SMBs. A lot of SMBs will have their question in their…
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What kind of skill sets are coming up and are lacking with the younger generations?
Mani G:
The basic skills that I saw that is very much lacking, was…
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What principles of a framework did you follow to make decisions that kept you on course?
Arjun Malhotra:
So when you take a decision, just remember at…
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Most entrepreneurial businessmen face this dilemma, they get inward and invested in that idea in business. At times they miss the opportunities to pivot or don'…
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How do you really go about building or getting conviction from VCs to fund your ideas? And, if you have a bright idea, what would be your advice to somebody on …
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What advice would you like to give to the aspiring marketeers who are looking at making the career in marketing or perhaps wanting to lead the function. So one …
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Which communication tactics or strategy are most efficient in today's environment for brands to demonstrate authenticity?
David Aaker:
There is no rule. T…
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This is the question is to do with this whole wave of protectionism that the countries are that it's happening in America it's happening in India. So a question…
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So I want to ask you on behalf of a lot of the startups that I know in the audience about what you said on subcategories. We see actually a lot of subcategory …
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When we look at the brand architecture model during COVID situation which elements of this model which is your model become most important for Brands? For celeb…
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How can storytelling be individualized in B2B?
David Aaker:
The B2B first of all they understand that stories are important. Because prospective cl…
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Six facets of a brand identity prism – personality, culture, relationship reflection and self image also physic. So in case of a service brand what will be the …
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There will be profound changes as a result of pandemic and new paradigms will emerge. So in the context of products and services, what do you see disappearing …
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Would you suggest that traditional big companies must not shy away from self destructing what traditionally has worked for them and if not, then how do you rea…
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How do you look at this transformation from incrementalism versus a massive transformation of the business?
Alpesh Shah:
Banks and insurance companies …
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What do you think will disappear as a result of this crisis? What will just disappear? And it'll not be the same again. Either a business or a process or activi…
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What actions should be taken to overcome this situation? How do you deal with these new consumption patterns that may emerge?
Alpesh Shah:
By creating inn…
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Is this the era ecosystems, which basically means that, for example happening with the Reliance Jio, their ambition clearly seems like they want to be a Alibaba…
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Will we see more consolidation in the BFSI industry? Because market leaders who have access to capital and cash will be able to augment their digital transforma…
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There is this fear in the mind of consumers in the mind of businesses that even if the government is encouraging them to avail of financial credit, they're not …
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We see this shift to work from home and that's got to stay. Do you see a strategic shift in the way companies view employment? Do you think gig economy is now g…
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How did you think of building a career in this direction and what were your challenges at that point in time? I'm sure it must not be a cakewalk for you. So I…
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Urban India and Rural India or Bharat, as most people prefer to call it, appear to be two distinct worlds ,yet they're so tied with each other for collective …
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There's so much buzz about technology, digital transformations, mobile phones, in the rural, India, internet penetration's. How do you see in your field of this…
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Concept of wealth management in rural India - you don't even know what the next month’s income will be. So how d…
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Well there is a labor exodus which we have seen, like never before happening, due to this pandemic. One of the perspective is that it's going to be a reverse la…
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In the current situation, what advice do you have for employed people who are salaried? How should they conserve or preserve their finances during this crisis…
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While going through emotionally low phase in your life, how can you be in distractible?
Nir Eyal:
There are only two potential solutions. Either fix…
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You are an entrepreneur, investor, teaches and author. In my experience, most people find it difficult to be good at one thing, but you good at everything. So w…
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A lot of productivity is lost because of incessant emails and calls. So how does one sensitize colleagues to the importance of leaving you alone without seeming…
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What about the times when you have to multitask? Can multitasking and remaining in distractible coexist?
Nir Eyal:
Multitasking interesting topic beca…
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Emotions are natural and involuntary. So how do you work on emotions? Well, when you're focusing on distraction tactics.
Nir Eyal:
So these are the intern…
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What will normal look like post COVID-19?. And will this change everything? World has seen many crisis in the past from health to economic, what is different ab…
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What do you think about procrastination as an idea generator and a creative release?
Nir Eyal:
Not true. What you can call it is a diversion. Okay. Div…
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How does one prepare oneself for this scenario?
Jasprit Bindra:
In the last hundred years or so organizations have come up and become these very pow…
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Is compassion not a matter of time for AI in the ways things are going? If they could emote or just learn to understand the context. Is that true?
Jasp…
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What is one thing that you see disappearing from the world as any product any service any habit as a result of this pandemic?
Jasprit Bindra:
I haven't th…
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What is the role of HR In Digital Transformation?
Jasprit Bindra:
HR is a wrong word actually that's CHRO should be the custodian of the company's cult…
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Now given the pandemic and what we are seeing of it appears that big will get bigger because they have access to capital the more resilient balance sheets on an…
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Why is it so difficult for organizations to change culture?
Jasprit Bindra:
Firstly, If you are a wreck. If your company is going down that lane, it's ver…
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I've seen a lot of your work has been done for brands trying to capture rural markets. And you've got some very deep insights about rural markets through your e…
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What kind of business opportunity do you suggest after lockdown?
Harish Bijoor:
Any business affairs committee that is COVID insulator is a great on…
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How do you make people trust the brands again? That the product is safe? Safely produced? The package?
Harish Bijoor:
If you really asked me it is a…
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In the Atmanirbhar bharat era how do you achieve innovation and go local in a marketplace where global companies are still dominating? What would be the recipe …
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In today’s scenario without meeting our customers business partners on the regular basis how does one retain and increase sales?
Harish Bijoor:
Selling is…
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What's your view on the higher education? Do you think studying in India will be preferable than studying abroad? Especially in the context of Atmanirbhar Bhara…
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Brands are today sending out messages to their customers that they care and so on and so forth. And there was a big joke going on, on social media that suddenly…
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Six facets of a brand identity prism – personality, culture, relationship reflection and self image also physic. So in case of a service brand what will be the …
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Which organization in India, from your experience, would you consider it to be vigilant organization so far that you've seen.
George Day:
I have…
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Tesla sells about 350000 cars a year against GM. And Tesla is $90 billion evaluation versus the GM. So how do you see these two companies through the model of V…
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What is the difference between being paranoid and staying vigilant in the context of responding t the current chaos?
George Day:
Not Much! I am going …
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How do you know when to pivot given that Most organizations have a commitment to three to five year plans and the choice of strategy also remain consistent?
…
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So how do you really define or assess the vigilant quotient in an organization?
George Day:
The vigilance quotient can be assessed from a survey tha…
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How would you advise smaller other organizations to remain vigilant? What can they do differently?
George Day:
Well firstly this is not a big or sma…
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As a result of this current pandemic, which product or service do you see vanishing?
George Day:
I don't see any obvious candidates for completely b…
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How do you see marketing changing post COVID? It was already changing, thanks to data, technology, automation, all that sort of stuff. But how do you see that c…
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What would be your advice to our audience?
George Day:
Marketing careers are fascinating, important. I consider marketing as first and foremost a gene…
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How does the COVID-19 infection manifest in children and prognosis in most children?
Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan
Most children are not asymptomatic. A ve…
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There's a lot of talk about which kind of mask? Everybody seemed to be wearing a mask but what kind of mask works because today you get a dozen right in this so…
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How long before you think we get information about some of these aspects of our daily lives that we can say, okay, you don't have to be so paranoid at all point…
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Real estate industry the restaurant business or hotel business it seems from what you just suggested that these industries are in for the long haul of stress.
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How does the concept of herd immunity work and is that a plausible solution who adopt?
Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan:
So herd immunity is not a strategy.…
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Most organizations are not used to self-destruction right. They are not used to breaking down processes and systems in the normal course of time. And you spoke …
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What according to you or other top skills for a unit for people at various levels. What are the top skills that you see people should focus on, at the entry lev…
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What is the role of communication in these times with employees and how leaders need to sort of focus on communication that connects with employees in these sit…
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In India How should the Government balance between economic liberalization and national sovereignty given that there is an opportunity now for global supply cha…
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Customer behavior is bound to change. Given the situation, then you sort of alluded to it in your talk as well. So how should advertisement change for companies…
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Is it a good time for startups to start-up?
Rishad Tobaccowala:
This is a terrific time because this has been a lot of new companies and new industrie…
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Which is at one sector that you would want to put your money on today.
Rishad Tobaccowala:
I believe 5G is going to be very big. So just like Jio was …
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In this pandemic situation, have you seen this accelerating your business?. And are you more bullish about the future especially after what we are going through…
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Every new boat that replaces human jobs creates some level of inequality in society. How do you think companies that make robots can help in bridging this divid…
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Will artificial intelligence start understanding the context and therefore the feeling and therefore empathy? Is this something that we are heading towards?
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The question is with respect to the geopolitical changes this pandemic is driving. China was the outsourcing capital of the world and a lot of high end tech wor…
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When do you see a robot gauging human interests without interacting with a human?
Rajeev Karwal:
It is already happening. But only with the emotions w…
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How long before you see such a robot being commonplace in the world?
Rajeev Karwal:
You see there are a couple of things. So one is the robotic techno…
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What is that one or two piece of advice that you want to give to our viewers who are working in the corporate who have ambitions to grow in their career? Probab…
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I'm going to request you to look at five to 10 years from now assuming we are somewhere between 2025 203, how would you see the scenario for small retail shops?…
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What do you think about the retail industry the fashion industry, Fashion industry, these single brand outlets the big ones? Is there writing on the wall that a…
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How do you think the sales fraternity or a business development fraternity prepare for something like this? Because they will be at risk given that longterm soc…
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There've been an Exodus of labor from rural to urban centers in search of better prospects and jobs. And now it's reverses happening because of health and peopl…
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So many possible scenarios that may merge out of this crisis. And, from most of these scenarios, it appears like large businesses with strong balance sheet and …
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What we hear at least in the news is that China is sort of coming back to what they were. There's good progress to the economy. What if this turns around in the…
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There's a saying that he never let a crisis go waste. And you mentioned about travel and tourism industry and they would be the worst to hit from this crisis. S…
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So the gig economy where people are increasingly moving towards self employment and part time work, Isn't a time for corporates to start thinking of those model…
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With Work from home becoming a norm, how can companies maintain control over the flow of sensitive information, across different levels of business? Is that som…
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If you were a mid level employee, what would have been your game plan to take advantage of this crisis today?
Ajai Chowdhry:
Well, I would start to lo…
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What would be your advice to, the sales for industry? Because a lot of our viewers are in business development and since a lot of business happens face to face …
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The organizations are moving towards training through webinars and online, which could be a good way, but is it as effective as face to face? And do you see tha…
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How should leaders communicate with their employees who may be getting solely impacted because of pay cuts or possible, job losses and so on and so forth. And h…
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What do you see would be the impact on real estate? And whether you see a shift happening over there in terms of prices, crashing rentals?
Ajai Chowdhry:…
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There are companies who are highly leveraged or have exposure on borrowings, how should they respond to these guys? And what would be your advice to them?
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Rakesh Wadhwa:
Public transportation in all megacities, including Mumbai, they are overcrowded. And even if people are working from home, a lot of them may still have to commu…
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Indians lack ethics on working from home. Therefore this whole work from home model may not be good for productivity. You have managed massive businesses. The a…
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There is a businessman engaged in developing public areas for kids. What's the future there? Do you encourage him to continue in this business?
Ajai Ch…
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We have seen there have been N number of paradoxes which have emerged today due to COVID times and with that the decision making truly a core competency…
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What's the difference between learning and not learning.
Yogi Sriram:
Un learning is dismantling a mental model. Let me illustrate. There's a lot…
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How should organizations gear up to make people learn virtually and how digital learning should be structured so that we also know that people do not have …
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On the demand side organizations still are highly parochial when it comes to hiring people from different industries. So that is a risk aversion. And that…
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With more artificial intelligence and remote working scenario and coming up into play, do we anticipate less number of jobs in the HR in future? And if so,…
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Is middle management as a layer, out boarded now or even the upper middle layer. Are companies now looking for Hands on workers and less of managers.
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Rakesh Wadhwa:
What is your take on leader and the role of leadership in the context of dealing with uncertainty?
Rita McGrath:
So one of the things that's critical …
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I want you to differentiate between large enterprises and medium and small enterprises because the issues really are different when they have to deal with the p…
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What should employers do to build unique employer brand and a differentiated employer brand during these times?
Yogi Sriram:
There is a lot of…
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Given the work from home scenario, what should one focus on? Should it be outputs or inputs?
Yogi Sriram:
It depends on the role one is handlin…
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That is a time now for moving from actual learning to E-Learning solutions. How do you think organizations should structure their learning agenda through s…
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What are the qualities of good leaders in today's world?
Yogi Sriram:
Firstly the ability to make a good judgment. There are several elements in …
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Careers are going to be more agile than ever before. Shouldn't our education right from school to post-graduation also be they looked at. And not to be onl…
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