Before this argument can go anywhere, it needs a definition. "Toxic" gets used loosely, often to describe a boss who is simply demanding, and that looseness does real damage to the word and to the case against it. The researcher who has studied this longest, Bennett Tepper, defines

The middle of the organisation is emptying out, and it's happening from two directions at once. We've named the two halves separately, blamed them on different people, and largely missed that they're the same event. The first half comes from the top. Companies are

Every organisation has done this. The engineer who always delivers. The sales lead who never misses quota. The lawyer who bills the most and wins the most. The analyst who everyone relies on. You reward them with a promotion into management. It feels right. It feels fair. The core failure

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on India's demographic dividend in the age of AI. Part 1 laid out the credential crisis. Part 2 reflected on inability of the richest's countries to automate their way out. Today: what actually needs to change, and

This is Part 2 of a three-part series on India's demographic dividend in the age of AI. In Part 1, we examined the inconvenient math – India's credential crisis, youth unemployment, and the AI threat to entry-level jobs. Today, we flip the lens. Yesterday at

This is Part 1 of a three-part series examining whether India's demographic dividend, once considered its greatest economic asset, is turning into a liability in the age of AI. Part 2 exploring other economies and Part 3 with opportunities to follow. India has 800 million people under

For decades, CFOs have rightfully viewed employee engagement as a vague, difficult-to-quantify metric from the HR department. But what if you could connect it to EBITDA with the same rigor you apply to supply chain efficiency? The data now proves you can. Engagement isn't just a

India’s middle managers aren't just burned out, they're collapsing at triple the global rate. While we invested millions in AI, 78% of our management layer is on the edge. That's a business crisis, not an HR metric. The Hierarchy Paradox 71% of middle

I haven't read the book on which this show is based. What follows are my reflections solely from watching Made In India: A Titan Story. I watched Made In India: A Titan Story recently, and it stayed with me longer than I expected, not because of the business