360° Perspectives

Career Memoirs by Ravikumar Pillai Franchising as a business model has come a long way from the pitfalls, mutual suspicions and lack of...

Part 22 of My Career Story - Ravikumar Pillai There is much to learn in the Art of Selling My search for a potential business domain...

The Author with the Late Aditya Birla at MRPL site in the early days of construction Changing to a new employer and getting acclimatized...

My Career Story - Part 19 A view of Mangalore Refinery (MRPL) In early 1993, Mangaluru was still a quiet and sleepy city. India was on...

Career Memoirs Trail by Ravikumar Pillai - part 18 The interval between career shifts is an unusually cool and detached experience. A...

Daring to tread the unknown path is key to the career cycle maturity curve After completing the training in London and visiting the...

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new – Socrates In the second half of the...

My Career Memoirs - Chapter 14 V Krishnamurthy - The Manager with the Midas Touch ' When the announcement came that PM Rajiv Gandhi...

31 October 1984 - When India came to the brink of survival The greatest contribution that my Mumbai stint made to shaping my perspectives...

The Legendary RK Laxman and the ubiquitous 'Common Man' My next career move came in February 1979. It wasn’t anything spectacular. The...

As I was set to anchor myself in Kolkata for the medium term, my first task was to find a place to stay.  My first base in Kolkata was a...

Graphic Image of Agitating Workers - AI-generated My tenure in the Organisation and Methods function exposed me to the entire range of...

Mohan Kumaramangalam India’s governance, business and social ecosystems have changed dramatically since I started my career in 1975.   In...

Over the months following my NITIE training, I progressed in my professional track, growing in confidence, strengthening internal...

Mumbai played an important role in my career and professional development. The city and the opportunities it provided shaped my...

At the end of the induction training, I was all set to join the functional specialisation assigned to me. Though I had already started my...

After nearly two months of orientation training at Rourkela, our cohort moved to Bhilai. By now, the batchmates had become more of a...

The transition from student days to work life is the first major breakout in life cycle maturity. A mix of excitement about novel...

Back in the mid-1970s, my eyes and ears were yet to open beyond the myopic fallacy of complacency! Frogs in the well hardly show the urge...

I was excited to receive my appointment letter to join Hindustan Steel Limited (later to be renamed and transformed to Steel Authority of...