How we learnt what must be taught CMI’s flagship program, Finding the Leader in You (FLY), stemmed from a question that took us 2 years to answer: Why does India lag behind in competitiveness? The question led us to look for the traits responsible for workforce competitiveness. We got our answer in 5 non-cognitive skills through our landmark 2017 research. These skills built the foundation of our flagship program, Finding the Leader in You (FLY), focusing on building, as we c

One day you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'Hmm, I am getting fat. I should start running.' From then on, you start running. A month of running every day passes by, and you think, 'Hey, I have been running every day for a long time now, but I see no results. I think it makes no difference.’ And you get back to your cozy couch to enjoy Netflix. Has this happened to you? Not precisely in terms of running but anything. Like doing something for weeks/months straight but

One could say that the FLY program itself is an example of a group of people who took initiative, persevered in the pursuit of innovative problem solving to address the issue of how to inculcate the 5 pillars of competitiveness mindset. It was the winter of 2017, Uday Nadkarni’s family and mine had met for dinner. He mentioned that he had met a gentleman named Harsh Bhargava, who had discussed a study that his company Bankworld Inc., a management company in the USA had conduc

Nature has taught us lessons of perseverance and ways to deal with failure. We have never heard of a river that stopped after hitting a rock. If it did, it will be confined to a lake and will never be converted into ocean. We all have tried to stop an ant with finger in her path while she carried a piece of food. She never stopped, and always found her way, even at the risk of her life. A spider never counts the number of times it fell down while making its web. It just conti