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Before the NFC Championship game between the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers this year, the sports pages pointed out that the further the 49ers progressed in the playoffs, the more this season appeared to a carbon copy of their 1981 season, when they won Super Bowl XVI.  The prior year’s won-lost record (6-10 both times), a new team president (Eddie DeBartolo in 1981, Jed York this year) and a coach recruited from nearby Stanford University (Bill Walsh then, Jim Harbaugh now) reinforced the parallels.  Those coincidences of history didn’t help them this year, as the Gi

Let’s assume that it’s early 2007, and you work for Steven P. Jobs, the late founder and chief executive of Apple.  You are, in particular, responsible for making sure that a new product the company is in the process of designing, the iPhone, is produced in accordance with Mr.

We celebrated entrepreneurism for four days in Istanbul last week.  The media mostly covered the speeches by U.S.

Americans – particularly politically conservative Americans – like to hurl charges of Marxism against their opponents.  Last summer, for instance, The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, criticized a quote that appeared on the U.S.

And I was in Mumbai in the midst of all the action. Unbelievable!

One young Tunisian set himself on fire because he was deprived the dignity to work. 

That one man, that one act, inspired thousands to take to the streets to be heard and to demand economic democracy.  The drive for economic democracy is so deep it galvanized old and young, men and women, Muslims and Christians, and different tribes.  What we are seeing is a breathtaking alignment of previously opposing forces demanding economic participation and progress. 

What will the world CEOs talk about at Davos?  I hope they don't waste a breath on whether we are in recovery or not. Irrelevant.  

Every country rich and poor, fast and slow growing, is facing a jobs emergency.  The immediate and worldwide issue is job creation.  This issue exploded on the streets in Tunis is is reverberating around the world.

I have met or spoken to over 100 entrepreneurs from 6 cities to launch the India 25 in September. I am penning down my observations learnt during the process of creating the India 25. It has been very insightful for me, hope you find it interesting as well.

Lesson 1 – Be a Growth Thinker!

To the outside world, Africa is all too frequently in the news for the wrong reasons.  It has had natural disasters of epic proportion.  In the 1970s and ’80s, drought and famine decimated populations in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia, Sudan and west Africa.  Epidemics periodically sweep the continent – malaria, AIDS, cholera and other contagious disease continue to threaten enormous numbers of people – and hunger and malnutrition are widespread problems in many places.  All too often, however, the disasters are caused by human failings.