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Roopa Unnikrishnan

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Covers:  M&A, innovation, leadership, strategy, smart cities and mobility.
Business strategist | M&A; & transformation | Author of The Jasmine Murders | The Leader's Oracle | Author on strategy & leadership | roopaonline.com
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The Career Catapult: Shake-up the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory

The Career Catapult: Shake-up the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory

Nonfiction book — The Career Catapult: Shake-up the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory - Kindle edition by Unnikrishnan, Roopa. "I was so impressed with The Career Catapult, that I couldn't put it down. It's intriguing, insightful, useful, and very readable." --Jon R. Katzenbach, renowned leadership consultant and author of best-selling books The Wisdom of Teams and Real Change Leaders, Reviews WINNER OF BEST CAREER-RELATED BOOK 2017 BY INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS!
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The Global Supply Chain Crisis | ScrollGlobal's Pandemic Show w/ Sree

The Global Supply Chain Crisis | ScrollGlobal's Pandemic Show w/ Sree

YouTube.com — I interviewed, with Sree Sreenivasan (my husband), WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims @mims about his new book, "Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door — Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy."
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Five global trends India should follow

Five global trends India should follow

The Economic Times — By Roopa Unnikrishnan These are the mantras for the young - to change themselves and the country Globally aware young Indians are shifting the country's future prospects. Check freelancer-sourcing sites like PeoplePerHour, Freelancer.com, or elance. com, and you'll be inundated with competitively priced bids by qualified Indians for anything from Web and logo development to analytics.
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The obviousness of jugaad: India's aesthetically challenged industries

The obviousness of jugaad: India's aesthetically challenged industries

The Economic Times — By Roopa Unnikrishnan For a moment, I bristled. Then I sat back, reflected and agreed. Over a quiet dinner, the CEO and Digital Officer of a major US company had gently suggested that they love India, but were distressed by the absolutely shoddy design sensibility in India.
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The obviousness of jugaad: India's aesthetically challenged industries

The obviousness of jugaad: India's aesthetically challenged industries

The Economic Times — By Roopa Unnikrishnan For a moment, I bristled. Then I sat back, reflected and agreed. Over a quiet dinner, the CEO and Digital Officer of a major US company had gently suggested that they love India, but were distressed by the absolutely shoddy design sensibility in India.
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An Indian in America

An Indian in America

Rediff.com — 'As I became a citizen of the United States of America, I knew I was supposed to be shedding my Indian citizenship, but at the end of the day, Mera dil hai Hindustani,' says Roopa Unnikrishnan, Rhodes Scholar, Commonwealth Gold Medalist and Arjuna Award winner.
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What can a leader learn from honest outsiders?

What can a leader learn from honest outsiders?

Rediff.com — A documentary on football and a biography of Jesus make Roopa Unnikrishnan mull over the lessons organisations can learn from honest outsiders. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com I've been thinking about the role of the honest outsider in holding the mirror up to organisations.
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Mobile First: A Traveler's Tale

Mobile First: A Traveler's Tale

Rediff.com — Strategy Guru Roopa Unnikrishnan decided to go Mobile Only when she and her family took a recent vacation. This is what she encountered: IMAGE: Strategy Guru Roopa Unnikrishnan, her husband Sreenath Sreenivasan, the Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, their twins Durga and Krishna on a gondola in Venice and, left, and the sites she and her family used for their holiday.
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Malcolm Gladwell on the key to success: don't be afraid to look like a fool

Malcolm Gladwell on the key to success: don't be afraid to look like a fool

Quartz — I had the chance to sit down with Malcolm Gladwell just before he went on to speak about David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants during the World Business Forum "Provocateurs" conference. It was easy to slip into a casual, free-wheeling chat, and we touched upon everything from success and socialization to the infamous 10,000-hour rule.
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Brick-and-mortar retailers need to make customers feel they're walking into a website

Brick-and-mortar retailers need to make customers feel they're walking into a website

Quartz — The best retail firms have always been great at storytelling. I remember my first weekend in New York City, 15 years ago, when I stopped dead in front of a Saks Fifth Avenue display window and was enveloped by a fantasy woodland tale.
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