“Great stories happen to those who can tell them”

- Ira Glass

Five story lessons from an 800-year old tradition

24 July 2021

Creating the software stack for the Knowledge Era (Part 2)
10 July 2021
The Co-Warriors who could have saved America
3 July 2021
Creating the software stack for the Knowledge Era (Part 1)
26 June 2021
Chapter 2: The Human Immune System - Our Defense Forces
12 June 2021
A mysterious system of microscopic messengers and mercenaries
5 June 2021
Writing was an accountant's invention
29 May 2021
Getting 450 people to emotionally connect... in a Zoom call
22 May 2021
COVID-19. EXPLAINED. [Chapter 1]
14 May 2021
Your brain is an accountant
1 May 2021
A storytelling lesson from the Valmiki Ramayana
17 April 2021
Using 'psycho-logic' to get people to give up gold for iron
10 April 2021
The missing C and an imaginary conversation: The Story of my Podcast
27 March 2021
A framework to analyse your audience for a big presentation
20 March 2021
Why bad news can be good for your brand
13 March 2021
The riveting story of India's most valuable startup
6 March 2021
Amazon's competitive advantage: Narrative
27 February 2021
ACE your story by aligning with Authenticity, Empathy and the Clear, Comprehensive Facts
20 February 2021
Discovering joy in 1950s Hindi film music
13 February 2021
A part of you can stretch from Ahmedabad to Assam: Guess which one?
6 February 2021
R Ashwin - the hidden storyteller in the Indian cricket team
30 January 2021
Decoding the Biden inauguration speech - 5 Storytelling Lessons
23 January 2021
Four incidents, Four lessons
16 January 2021
How Improv can help you cope with the uncertainties of life
9 January 2021
Begin with impact: Five ways to grab your audience's attention at the beginning of your presentation
2 January 2021
Decathlon: Enough with Santa, let’s tell stories of the elves
26 December 2020
More stories about the little one... (and a bonus story from Begusarai)
19 December 2020
The story of how we got our daughter home (PS: Mandira Bedi, we owe you one)
12 December 2020
Want to refute something? Don't deny it. Instead, manufacture doubt
5 December 2020
How I stumbled upon the word 'Storyteller' for what I do
28 November 2020
A data-storytelling insight from the Jyotirlinga story
21 November 2020
Three storytelling lessons from Kamala Harris' stirring victory speech
14 November 2020
The most consequential napkin art of all time (or was it?)
7 November 2020
Our struggle with Probability
31 October 2020
An ode to the patron Goddess of Storytelling :)
24 October 2020
The (revised!) 5Cs framework for thought leadership
20 October 2020
The story of a rural janitor... who left $6M to charity
3 October 2020
The plural of anecdote isn’t Data: Structuring the search for your Data Story
1 October 2020
A new logo. A new story.
12 September 2020
Not winning despite having the best product in the market? You need the right connections!
5 September 2020
My recommended reads and listens for August 2020
8 August 2020
My recommended books - and other content - for July 2020
4 July 2020
My quest for Ikigai
20 May 2020
Business Review Meetings suck. Here’s 10 Commandments to fix them
11 May 2020
Work From Home: Why you need to manage your T.E.A.M. and not just Time
18 March 2020
My journey of reclaiming my life from my smartphone
19 December 2019
The SoftBank earnings deck: What was great (and what wasn’t)
11 November 2019
Decoding the ‘Howdy Modi’ speech: A 1-slide summary
25 September 2019
Uber's real business is trust: A driver's story
18 September 2019
A vocab cheat-sheet for your data story
27 August 2019
10 guidelines to make impactful PowerPoint presentations
6 July 2019
Amazon’s 2019 shareholder letter: Top 3 storytelling lessons
22 May 2019
Storytelling lessons from the world’s 3rd Richest Man
18 March 2019
A 10-line cheat-sheet to craft your work story
13 February 2019
Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Yuval Harari have used this storytelling technique – you should too
21 November 2018
The 7Cs Business Story Framework: the Hollywood Avatar
5 October 2018
The 7Cs Story Framework: Crafting a winning sales deck
30 September 2018
Deconstructing (and critiquing) Amazon’s shareholder letter
22 July 2018
Business leaders: Don’t settle for less during review meetings
15 June 2018
The King and Minister story: How to write better emails
9 May 2018
How to measure the impact of storytelling training
24 April 2018
How to ace interviews with better storytelling
23 March 2018
Fundraise storytelling lessons: India’s largest clinical data intelligence platform
22 March 2018
Client Story: 2 days. 10 pitch makeovers.
13 March 2018
A storytelling tip from Kapil Sharma: Take on the anti-story
12 March 2018
Client Story: Making review meetings impactful with better storytelling
7 March 2018
Four tips for choosing the right words for your data story
5 March 2018
The role of credibility in storytelling
12 February 2018
Learning from a successful B2B startup’s sales storytelling
20 December 2017
#LeaderStories: Satyam Darmora of i2e1
18 December 2017
The story and lessons underlying i2e1’s $3mn fund raise
18 December 2017
How to present complex, technical information in a captivating way
8 December 2017
Leveraging pride instead of pity on International Day of People with Disabilities
4 December 2017
5 words/phrases to connect your data story
23 November 2017
Chris Nolan’s surprising (yet familiar) insight on storytelling
13 October 2017
The most critical storytelling lesson from Bollywood’s biggest hit
3 October 2017
A tool to transform your internal review meetings
25 September 2017
You can ‘engineer’ any data story using this tool
1 September 2017
Using contrast to elevate your key message
8 June 2017
Why do we have songs in movies?
12 May 2017
7 tips to get your story narrative in shape
31 March 2017
Can you spot what’s wrong in a simple chart?
20 March 2017
Charts are the best (but don’t use them in this situation)
15 March 2017
Are you underplaying your own performance?
7 March 2017
How an airline used the right ‘connections’ to make a social statement
28 February 2017
Can we (gasp) improve a Google presentation?
24 February 2017
The tweet that flagged off a storm (over a door mat)
23 February 2017
Are you smarter than a chimpanzee?
21 February 2017
Constructing the right chart
20 February 2017
How HUL superbly told its volume growth story
15 February 2017
The story that launched a billion dollar company
15 February 2017
Finding the hidden story in a corporate P&L
14 February 2017
Unravelling the mystery behind a most prolific pair
10 February 2017