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Hardayal Singh

The writer was Chief Commissioner of Income-tax and is the author of the Moral Compass- Finding Balance and Purpose in an Imperfect World, Harper Collins India, 2022

Latest Articles By Hardayal Singh

Beyond Morgan Stanley: Stiff Challenges Await

Hardayal Singh

In life, as in economics, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere, you may have to run twice as fast, the Red Queen advises Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass

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'You Get Happiness, When You Give It To Others'

Hardayal Singh

Poor people near the equator have as much of a chance of finding it as rich people living away from it

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Gautam Adani: Rise To Eminence

Hardayal Singh

Adani's biographer, R.N. Bhaskar points out that, although he speaks English hesitantly, he makes up for this weakness by listening intently

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Success Is Not A Piece Of Cake You Can Bite Into When Hungry

Hardayal Singh

Both Tandon as well as Ganguly would agree with Peter Drucker that because of the complex nature of decision-making in modern organisations – irrespective of whether they are governmental, semi- governmental or private – the person helming them has to be good listener. Besides, he needs good inter-personal and conceptual skills and needs to believe in team work says Hardayal Singh

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"Success Not A Piece Of Cake Which You Can Bite When You Are Hungry”

Hardayal Singh

There are not that many people who can do this: good organisations, therefore, need to spend a lot of time in succession planning

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“Success Is Not A Piece Of Cake Which You Can Bite When You Are Hungry”

Hardayal Singh

The book could be bench-marked against the account of Prakash Tandon, another eminent HUL CEO of an earlier generation, whose trilogy—the Punjabi Saga, comprising Punjabi Century, Beyond Punjab, and Return to Punjab (Rupa and Co 2001)—has become a literary classic in its own right

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“Remember, Leadership Is A Function To Be Performed And Not An Entitlement To Be Enjoyed”

Hardayal Singh

The leader devises a strategy and monitors its implementation, and ensures effective communication with all stakeholders

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Budget Ruminations: How To Disburse Subsidies

Hardayal Singh

Subsidies should never be based on populist considerations but on well-considered social cost-benefit analyses

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Welfare Vs Revadis, Some Fresh Thoughts

Hardayal Singh

In a market-driven economy, which we embraced after the reforms of the 1990s, this is justifiable only as a last resort when markets cannot deliver desired outcomes and all other solutions fail

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