Ringside
Our constant hope is that our proprietary knowledge can help make sense of our rapidly changing reality. Meant to be counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful, Ringside is Gnothi Seauton’s latest insights offering that seeks to present “India to the World”. Ringside will enthral CXOs and other leaders with ideas, stories and thoughts through two initial offerings - Trunk Economics and The Gnothi Seauton Leadership Podcast - that we hope will enrich the traditional leadership experience as we know it.
Trunk Economics
In Trunk Economics, Gnothi Seauton takes a look at the latest perspectives and ideas shaping the world around us, as well as some of our most compelling thought leadership.
These insights will cover a range of topics that are top of mind for business leaders today, issues that have become more layered and challenging than ever before: from global trade and consumer choice to corporate purpose, climate change, and responsible AI, to why American baseball may find its history rooted in an early form of cricket called rounders!
Why Trunk Economics
It was the obvious choice for us. Let’s look back a few decades. When India initiated economic reforms in the early 1990s, analysts called it the elephant economy. India, like the elephant, was slow, but when it moved, others had to take notice. Today, the elephant is dancing or, as some experts suggest, it may always have been a tiger, or maybe a beehive, reflecting India’s frenzied emergence as one of the world’s fastest growing economies.
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Lost in the Scroll: Why Reading Needs to be a Priority
DECEMBER 17, 2024
A FAMILIAR SYMPHONY OF SOUNDS FILLS the mid-morning air in neighbourhood across India. Children’s voices, reciting alphabets, rhymes, and stories, echo from schools, a reminder of the importance of reading in their academic journey.
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India’s E-Commerce Conundrum: Trade tension and the stakes at home
DECEMBER 16, 2024
THE US, NEVER SHY ABOUT expressing its dissatisfaction with the trade practices of other nations, may soon escalate matters with India, threatening tariffs on Indian goods.
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The AI Arms Race: How the World is Changing– Until It Isn't
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Scientific inventions, world history tells us, have been about solving fundamental problems. Think of the printing press. Think of the industrial revolution. Think of the steam engine. Think of the Wright Brothers. Think of the Internet.
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Here we come, GCCs are saying as states lay down the red carpet
OCTOBER 1, 2024
On September 27, the Karnataka government became the first state in the country to come up with a dedicated global capability centre (GCC) GCC policy to attract higher investment in the booming IT sector.
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US rate cuts coming. Why should we give a damn? Let’s de-dollarize
AUGUST 27, 2024
"THE TIME HAS COME FOR policy to adjust,” US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told an annual symposium for central bankers on August 24.
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Trump’s job offer to Musk tells us why lateral thinkers are crucial for bureaucracy to excel
AUGUST 22, 2024
AS THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS enter the home run stretch, the campaigns and the endorsements are pouring in thick and fast from both sides of the political aisle.
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MNCs better watch, the clock is ticking on a new GMT
AUGUST 21, 2024
MONEY, IT IS OFTEN SAID, FOLLOWS the path of least resistance.
In other words, funds flow to geographies where there are fewer regulatory frictions and rigidities.
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Paneer on the platter: Rising incomes fuel diet shift from humble cereal to protein-rich choices
AUGUST 16, 2024
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH TODAY? It’s a common question for millions of Indian households, where, in many families, something special is rustled up on a Sunday, a day when usually all in the family enjoy a meal together.
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Rivers are carrying a new B2C message
AUGUST, 2024
IT IS SOMETIMES SAID THAT rivers, like elephants, have a photographic memory. They remember their paths, to the exact detail.
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Finding new geographic slivers, urban hubs
AUGUST, 2024
ANYONE WHO’S TRACKING INDIA’S economy would have noticed the preponderance of two phrases—short-term and long-term—in the multitude of analyses that has followed this year’s mid-summer Union Budget.
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Why Small is Beautiful!
AUGUST, 2024
IT’S THAT TIME OF the year again where all roads lead to North Block, the seat of power of India’s finance ministry. It is never easy being the finance minister of a country. More so for a country such as India where managing contradictions could be much more crucial than balancing the books.
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Movies, Moffusils and Homes
AUGUST, 2024
HOW DO YOU MEASURE CHANGES in a country’s transformational journey? It may be a useful exercise to gauge how people’s lives and aspirations have changed, powered by spending ability and inter-generational upward mobility.
Leadership Podcast
THE GNOTHI SEAUTON
The Gnothi Seauton Leadership Podcast, hosted by broadcasting entrepreneur and one of India’s best-known business journalists Gaurav Choudhury, is an unfiltered, raw, and intelligent podcast (and vodcast) series that explores timeless lessons and stories in conversation with some of India and the world’s finest minds at the Board-level, the C-Suite, and at other leadership roles.
The series will deliver insights and ideas that might enrich their efforts to lead in a rapidly changing world, one where tech-triggered disruption, sustainability, and DEI, must go hand in hand with the mission to sustain profits and ensure a workplace culture of meritocracy.
From psychology and our inner mind, ideas about balancing profits with impact, governance, society, culture, sport, music, books, and authors, to technology disruptors in this digital era, it’s designed as a wide-ranging and thoughtful conversation.
Coming Soon!
GNOTHI SEAUTON’S
School of Purpose
WITH MANASI LALWANI
Listen to our series of podcasts where we delve into the fascinating world of impactful communication and demystify the myths of what it takes to successfully influence people.