Sridhar Vembu: Zoho founder explains why employees should seize the initiative What happens when companies become so focused on discipline, metrics and structure that employees stop taking the initiative? Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has a provocative answer: organisations may have to choose between comfortable certainty and the discomfort of independent thinking. In a post on…

Kanika Siwach (left) and Udita Kolkata: Even as the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams prepare for the upcoming World Cup and the Asian Games, a group of players outside the current national set-up has signed up to play in Australia’s Hockey One league, scheduled to be held in Oct and Nov.So far, four Indian…

Let’s be real: Life is chaotic. Between the constant pings from your phone and a to-do list that seems to grow while you sleep, it’s incredibly easy to lose sight from the goals. But Audrey Hepburn—the woman who practically invented the concept of “class”—summed up the antidote to all that noise in just a few…

Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) Ravindra Jadeja (PTI Photo) Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) Ravindra Jadeja (PTI Photo) Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) Former India captain Kris Srikkanth has thrown his support behind Ravindra Jadeja, insisting that the veteran all-rounder still has a role to play in India’s plans…