Culture doesn’t just influence business — it defines outcomes As India–U.S. partnerships grow stronger, even high-performing teams can face challenges when different approaches to thinking, decision-making, and communication intersect. The IACC – West India Council invites you to an insightful webinar - “Winning with Cross-Cultural Collaboration” This session will: ✔️ Demystify common Indo–U.S. cultural differences ✔️ Share practical techniques to bridge communication and dec

Organisational culture shapes how decisions are made, how risks are managed, and how performance unfolds — even when no one is watching. In this article, I explore some evidence and three modern case studies — Netflix, Microsoft, and Wells Fargo — showing why organisational culture becomes a competitive advantage when Boards and CEOs treat it as a strategic focus area.   Culture is not ‘soft’. It is one of the most powerful systems in any organisation — shaping decisions, beh

The study of culture is not new. In a classic book, anthropologists A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn identified 164   definitions of culture   . . . in 1952! The study of organizational culture has also received enormous attention with the classic maxim: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Although Peter Drucker did not actually say it, he and many others have clearly supported this notion,   with many books (over 100!)   in recent years entitled “Culture (fill in the bla

Whilst most business leaders treat Learning & Development (L&D) as a nice-yet-dispensable overhead, Jack Welch said “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage .” [emphasis added]. Coming from a CEO who presided over GE’s value zooming from USD 12 billion (1981) to 280 billion (2001) this isn’t warm ‘HR’ gush but cold logic, based on GE’s experience. So why this stark divergence between Jack Welch

Wouldn’t it be cool if we had an easy-to-understand framework to understand the building blocks of a great career? A ‘scaffolding’ if you will, that each can adapt and use to invest in their unique potential and doing some great work with great outcomes? As a fellow traveller on this journey I haven’t “reached” anywhere to boast about. But as an HR professional concerned for the direction and health of others’ careers, I see a rather confusing mish-mash of books offering adv