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Signed a new book contract this week, a book with a difference and hopefully a book that will make a difference. Right from the beginning of the pandemic, I was determined that something good had to come out of this, something positive to take forward once the virus finally relaxes its grip. Being a writer, the first thing I thought of was to write something. But I knew this wasn’t just down to me.  At the University of Exeter Business School I am fortunate to have a peer group, the Fellows of...

Ten years ago, during the course of my research into the Tata Group, I interviewed one of the group’s grand old men, R.K. Krishna Kumar. When I met him he was head of Tata Global Beverages, but he had been involved with many companies in the group over the years.  I asked him, as I asked everyone, what he thought the values of the Tata brand were. He did not answer immediately. Instead he gazed out the window for a while, steepling his fingers, and it was perhaps five seconds or so before he...