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  Start-ups and the HRO Paradigm: Getting Ahead in the Game   India’s tryst with the start-up universe began in 1998 when the Sabeer Bhatia-led Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft for an estimated $400 million. Since then, we have seen a number of instances of Indian start-ups becoming global giants, especially in the field of IT/Technology. India is today home to 21 unicorns as per the Hurun Global Unicorn List, 2020, which are collectively valued at $73.2 billion. These success stories, as well as a push from the government, have encouraged young Indians across the spectrum to walk the path of entrepreneurship. While every entrepreneur is ambitious about fulfilling their business’ potential and emerging into a unicorn/global giant, it is noticed that despite predilection for growth, 90% of the start-ups fail, under 50% make it to the fifth year and only 30% get past ten years! This is a harsh reality which all potential entrepreneurs should judiciously take note of. Stat...
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Realigning Business to the New Normal

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Saying that these are trying times is an understatement of magnanimous proportions. For a moment let’s just forget the present, turn back time and go back a few months. It’s March 2020 – most organisations are either creating their business plans for FY20-21 or the plans are in the works. A dreaded virus has wreaked havoc in a few countries and is lurking over the others. But for most organisations world over, it is business as usual! Fast forward to the present. Corporates are yet finding their way through probably the worst economic crises since the Great Depression. Businesses across industries, scale, and size are clutching at straws to make it through. Many commentators are predicting doomsday. Not a situation anybody would like to be in, even in their worst nightmares. But hey! All is not lost. Let’s turn this around on its head. The way I see it, this pandemic is a great leveller . Now, what do I mean by that? Hmmm… all organisations, big or small, today are startups… we’ve all ...
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Human Population - A Depleting Resource

Some predictions about the human population As early as the sixth century B.C., catastrophists have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and continue to be wrong today. Such concerns were expressed in the writings of Plato and Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. as well as in the teachings of Confucius as early as the sixth century B.C. In 200 A.D., Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, an early Christian author from the city of Carthage, argued “We are burdensome to the world, the resources are scarcely adequate for us… already nature does not sustain us”. The population of the world then was approximately 180 million, which is about 3-4% of what it is today! And far from facing hunger and destitution; in fact most of these people are leading quite a decent lives! In 1588, Giovanni Botero, an Italian thinker, priest, poet and diplomat, published Delle cause della grandezza delle città (On the Causes of the Greatness of Cities)....
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