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Business News > Mint Authors > Raghu Raman

Raghu Raman

Mint columnist

Raghu Raman is former CEO of the National Intelligence Grid, distinguished fellow at Observer Research Foundation and author of ‘Everyman’s War’.

ARTICLES BY RAGHU RAMAN

US President Donald Trump has declared victory in the Iran war several times. (AFP)

Trump’s Game of Thrones: A king who must keep saying he’s king is not one

4 min read . 16 Apr 2026

Donald Trump began his US presidency with rhetoric of ending wars and focusing on America. (AFP)

Misguided fury: America has missed the big irony of its war against Iran

4 min read . 18 Mar 2026

Pakistan’s economy must escape the clutches of its armed forces

4 min read . 17 Jun 2025

How best to stop sexual violence in India isn’t obvious

4 min read . 16 Sept 2024

Of the 32 medals won by India between the Berlin and Tokyo Games, 24, or two-thirds, were in individual events. (Doordarshan Sports- X)

Fool’s gold: Our Olympics medal haul held up a mirror to the country

4 min read . 13 Aug 2024

Some ‘holy’ entrepreneurs have leveraged their followings into vote banks.

Self-styled cult leadership: It’s a game of power and pelf too often

4 min read . 15 Jul 2024

Nations succeed or fail because its citizens recognize the umbilical link between good institutions and their future success.

Neet furore: It’s a country’s institutions that determine its success or failure

4 min read . 01 Jul 2024

Even without elections, terror attacks in Kashmir are routine and (with the exception of Pulwama) rarely grasp national attention beyond a day or two. (PTI)

Our national principles need the support of prudent narratives

4 min read . 17 Jun 2024

Children raised in nurturing environments where promises are consistently kept are more likely to develop the optimism and patience necessary to wait for greater rewards than those growing up in unpredictable environments.

Rethink the marshmallow test and earn trust to win employee commitment

3 min read . 13 May 2024

Diffused accountability can also lead to inaction on account of the ‘bystander effect’, when critical tasks get ignored because everyone assumes someone else will take responsibility.

Leadership pitfall:Diffused accountability is formula for organizational failure

4 min read . 29 Apr 2024

Building a culture of experimentation requires creating frameworks like hackathons, innovation labs and brainstorming off-sites, and investing in people, ideas and projects that are different from the norm.

Organizations must think innovatively without falling into the innovation trap

4 min read . 16 Apr 2024

It is not public speaking per se that most people are afraid of, but of being judged by strangers.

Plato's observation holds true even today: Those who tell stories rule the world

4 min read . 18 Mar 2024

In brainstorming for a creative idea or driving an organizational transformation project, industrial era metrics simply fail to gauge the contribution of every individual in the team. (iStockphoto)

Leaders must let go of industrial era paradigms to succeed

4 min read . 20 Feb 2024

The jumper cleared space in the by-now-sizeable crowd for a run-up for this jump, while Samuele started rousing the crowd with loud chants and cheers and upping the volume of his boombox. (AFP)

Even a street performance can hold business lessons

4 min read . 06 Feb 2024

The senior management and boards of large organizations rely almost entirely on ‘dashboards’ to track and measure progress on their stated intent.

Corporate leaders risk failure if their own data dashboards start lying to them

3 min read . 23 Jan 2024

Business is a numbers game and those who can calculate scores rapidly will always top those who can’t.

Here are five essential skills that can make a business leader stand out

4 min read . 09 Jan 2024

Leaders must constantly be learning and growing. (Photo: iStockphoto) (iStockphoto)

Trauma could forge the mettle that a leadership role demands

4 min read . 26 Dec 2023

Fifteen years later, barring airports and perhaps a few government installations, anti-terror measures are largely a farcical ritual that do not really improve security. (HT_PRINT)

Beware the prolonged hidden costs that terror attacks saddle us with

4 min read . 28 Nov 2023

How we choose to accept the suffering of others foretells our longevity as a race or nation and the character of the world we shape for our children and narratives we commit them to. (AFP)

The narratives we choose today may determine decisions of war and peace tomorrow

4 min read . 13 Nov 2023

Amid the cacophony of war talk, hunted by the US navy, the Soviet submariners were literally in the dark, uncertain whether their country was already at war with the US.

It often takes more resolve and grit to save lives than wage war

4 min read . 30 Oct 2023