I’d like to share a story I heard from a colleague about a Swedish multinational with offices in India. Discussing a New Year message to employees, the expat country head dissuaded the Indian communication team from using the term ‘family’ while referring to colleagues in the organization.

He says a successful company should demonstrate that the management team is as accountable to other employees as junior staff are to their bosses.

Two worlds apart, music and management appear to have little in common.

Think again, says HCL Technologies Chief Marketing Officer Krishnan Chatterjee, who believes the pursuit of change is bridging these two worlds today.

I have always looked forward to the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum. This year too, as I wrote earlier, I was excited about the prospect of brainstorming the conference theme - Shared norms for a new reality. Yet, oddly, having reached the serene Alpine town of Davos, I couldn’t rid myself of a nagging doubt: Was all this high-level brainstorming worth it?

Reading the PWC 14th Annual Global CEO survey, I was quite pleased to see the increased focus on talent development across the world. Business leaders were getting deeply involved in efforts to develop talent strategically, and tactically, when needed.