It’s easy to see the benefits of global meeting in Davos, but the CEO of HCL wonders if there are better uses of the 75,000 executive hours.

What am I doing here?

Maybe it was the change of climate or the jet lag or something I ate. But as I arrived in Davos today and gazed up at the snowy peaks, that’s the question I was asking myself.

Mere pas maa hai. When India’s musical maestro A.R. Rahman quoted one of Bollywood’s most famous lines in his Oscar acceptance speech last year, the significance of his words was not lost on the millions of Indians watching.

Millions upon millions of leaders—perhaps even billions. That's what I see, or hope to see, in 2036.

Author and former journalist Steve Hamm recalls in a recent blog post that the North American CEO of a European information technology services company was walking around the show floor of IT firm SAP’s annual user conference in Orlando, US last year and checking in at the various booths.