Hosted by Indranil Chakraborty (IC) · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 160 episodes
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Indranil Chakraborty (IC) hosts The StoryBank, a business show with 160 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail All of us have met that person. The new leader. The consultant. The expert. The person who has barely arrived but already knows what’s wrong with everyone else’s work. Sometimes we’ve been that person ou
Send us Fan Mail A story that touched my heart about a CEO I admire and an act I never expected to happen in a dog eat dog world. Listen on. For more #storiesatwork do have a look the playlists of stories on our website
Send us Fan Mail Is having data and sharing data enough to convince people to take action? Of course not. We need to help people see reality clearly enough that the right answer becomes obvious. While Data Storytelling i
Send us Fan Mail Like many of you, I'm navigating two very different emotions about AI — the excitement of a kid in a candy store and the fear of someone standing at the edge of a cliff. And with every new release, both
Send us Fan Mail Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned one hundred years old. No one alive has done more to make ordinary people like me fall in love with the natural world. A man with a microphone and a camera crew a
Send us Fan Mail Every good leader knows how to manage change. New processes, new structures, new tools etc. These are hard, but they're familiar. But AI is asking for something far more challenging. It's not asking us t
Send us Fan Mail IC has been reading this book by Ethan Mollick called 'Co-Intelligence', and there's this really interesting paradox he talks about. You'd think that now that AI can look up facts, write code, summarise
Send us Fan Mail Most leaders I work with assume their teams tell them the truth. After all, they have open-door policies. They say, "Bring me bad news early”. And they mean it. Yet somehow, the bad news comes late. Or s
Send us Fan Mail Is there a lesson we can learn from the demise of Encyclopaedia Britannica on how organisations should deal with AI? Since its first publication in 1768, until the early 1990s, Britannica ruled the encyc
Send us Fan Mail I was talking to Joy Bhattacharjya yesterday about today's story, and it triggered one from his own memory bank. This was around 2008, when Joy was the Team Director of the Kolkata Knight Riders. A recur
Send us Fan Mail During my years in the corporate world, a question that had often been on my mind was what makes people want to bring more of themselves to work? Disengagement at work does not always look dramatic. Peop
Send us Fan Mail “What gets measured gets managed”, has been one of my steadfast beliefs in both my personal and professional life. Good intentions and goals are not enough on their own. They have to be measured regularl
Send us Fan Mail When people ask me about my success mantras, my answer is simple: luck, discipline, hard work and attention to detail. Attention to detail is a strength I have always been proud of. But early in my caree
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes hidden behind the cloak of ambition is something we rarely name, and that is greed. A goalpost that keeps shifting. Because if we can achieve more, then why not? That's when the team stops cele
Send us Fan Mail What if you're too incompetent to realise your incompetence? We explore this in today's story. We now live in a world where crafting a question takes much longer than getting an answer. You type a prompt
Send us Fan Mail Have you been in a situation where after tirelessly trying to address a crisis you realised that you were addressing the symptoms rather than the problem itself? In today’s episode I will move away from
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we end up holding onto things for far longer than they need to be held on to. And it may need an outsider looking in to identify that. This story talks about one such perspective that can be us
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been under so much pressure that time available seemed to be inadequate? What was your solution? For many people, the answer will be to work longer and harder. But is that always the right
Send us Fan Mail “Is this really the same guy I shared lunch with in school? How did he turn out this way? Is he really so rabid? Why is he so stupid?”. Have you read WhatsApp messages on a school group and reacted in th
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever blindly followed Google Maps... only to end up somewhere you definitely shouldn't be? I have. That tiny frustration reveals a much larger pattern in business: we increasingly hand over judg
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The StoryBank is hosted by Indranil Chakraborty (IC). The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 160 episodes.
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