Management Perspectives

You do not lose authority because someone disagrees with you. You lose it when your behavior under pressure becomes inconsistent, reactive, or unclear. People watch how you respond when challenged. They decide in those moments whether you are someone who hides behind position or someone who leads the relationship as well as the task.

MYTH 1: Culture is your values, mission, and purpose statements.
MYTH 2: Engagement scores tell you how healthy your culture is.
MYTH 3: Culture is owned by HR.
MYTH 4: Strong cultures should be unified and consistent everywhere.
MYTH 5: Culture is soft, secondary, and separate from performance.

Domestic financial institutions need to embrace global expansion and innovation and view IFSCs as facilitators rather than rivals. Building regulatory trust, streamlining processes, and aligning incentives will all contribute to the development of a cooperative ecosystem that fulfills the promise of financial transformation.

Disinvestment of shareholding and privatisation of public sector undertakings in India, spanning over the last two and half decades, is a mission that did not get accomplished. It was a frontline manifestation of the paradigm shift in the planning process towards national development that the government need not be in business and need only be a facilitator, the dictum still holds true with the present union government.