Gautam Kumra

1 month ago | mckinsey.com | Gautam Kumra |Joydeep Sengupta |Mukund Sridhar

To stay focused, productive, and motivated, leaders need to develop their own working rhythms and routines. Here’s how some CEOs do it. Every successful CEO cultivates habits and routines that infuse discipline into their daily schedules and allow them to perform at their best. While all chief executives must constantly juggle six core responsibilities (exhibit), how they prioritize them depends on a complex interplay between the business context and the CEO’s unique capabilities and preferences.

Jan 24, 2025 | mckinsey.com | Anu Madgavkar |Gautam Kumra

The combination of falling birth rates and increased longevity has big implications for traditional retirement systems, which rely mainly on taxes levied on younger generations to fund transfers to seniors. Without rapid action to counteract the impact of demographic shifts, this established social contract will fray in unprecedented ways—even as economic growth flags.

Sep 2, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Gautam Kumra |Jeongmin Seong

The world remains deeply connected by virtue of global trade, but the geometry of economies’ connections has been shifting. Some major economies are moving toward trading more with geopolitically closer partners, while others continue to deepen their international trade networks both geographically and across the geopolitical spectrum. Asia is at the forefront of this shifting geometry of global trade in all its shapes.