Blog

Notes from the corner office and the coaching chair: on leadership, technology, coaching and growth.

Leadership

How to Get Things Done Without Authority

Capable senior people stall for one reason more than any other: they wait to be given authority that nobody is ever going to hand them. Two...

11 August 2026

Coaching

Can AI Replace a Coach? I Tried It Twice

I asked ChatGPT to coach me as an ICF credentialed coach would. It asked genuinely good questions, and it still could not coach me, for a...

6 August 2026

Story

How to Know When to Leave a Stable Job

It took four attempts across four years to leave IndiaMART. Three of them failed on the same question, and it was never whether I was brave...

4 August 2026