Sharmla Chetty

Nov 29, 2024 | dialoguereview.com | Sharmla Chetty

AI is a powerful business tool. But it cannot replace personal storytellingIs AI being simultaneously underplayed and overplayed? Almost every day another article emerges either calling time on human endeavor (machines will soon do everything), or declaring the technology an expensive luxury (unreliable, untrustworthy and hard to monetize). Neither forecast is likely to come true.

Nov 28, 2024 | dialoguereview.com | Sharmla Chetty

AI is a powerful tool – but leadership is uniquely humanMuch of humanity’s greatest endeavors continue to defy the imagination, millennia later. The ingenuity of the pyramids, the Mayan temples, the Great Wall of China, remain as awe-inspiring today as they did when they were built thousands of years ago. The human industry required to build these wonders of the world is itself remarkable. Yet it is the power of the idea that endures. The construction of these sites were finite moments in history.

Sep 2, 2024 | dialoguereview.com | Sharmla Chetty

The idea that DEI is just a trendy cause bears no scrutiny The backlash has begun. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is under fire, at least in America. Ten states in the union have approved legislation to starve DEI programs of public funding or political support, or rendering them illegal altogether. Academia is at the forefront of the revolt. The great state of Texas has banned diversity offices in universities. Yet corporate America has been targeted too.

Sep 2, 2024 | dialoguereview.com | Sharmla Chetty |Vishal Patel

Leaders find themselves trapped between the old and the new. Overlapping global crises demand that we break free – and shape a better futureThe writing is on the wall. The signals of the future are unmistakable. But do leaders have the clarity of mind to heed them – and, more to the point, to act upon them? We are confronted by the confluence of environmental, technological and social upheaval that is disrupting and rebuilding. This is the era of polycrisis.

May 17, 2024 | dialoguereview.com | Sharmla Chetty

The legend of men being better negotiators than women ignores a crucial fact. Did you hear the one about men being better negotiators? You probably have, because the notion is so pervasive that it has become received wisdom: if you want to squeeze the best from a deal, send in a man. Yet, like so many generalized beliefs, scratch under the surface and you find the flaw. I was struck by the closing keynote speech at this year’s Lead with Her conference in London.