Business Standard: “The only way to create a significant number of new jobs — even if they do not meet the entire demand — is to make India an attractive destination for building new manufacturing and service sector capacities. Despite all the talk about the improved ease of doing business, the truth is that there are too many compliances, regulations, and other hurdles that businesspeople in India need to deal with. For many manufacturers, while India offers a huge potential market, a country like Vietnam is easier to set up a manufacturing unit in. This is also one reason why India has not managed to become a global manufacturing hub.”
Ashu Garg: “An agentic system is one that takes an overall goal, breaks it down into a series of steps, and executes that sequence, transferring outputs from one step to the next and combining them to achieve a desired outcome. Regie’s agents today tackle the complex problem of sales prospecting. An agent identifies a new lead that matches a client’s ideal customer profile, based on CRM and third-party data. The lead is then scored and prioritized as a high-potential prospect using ML models and intent data analysis. Next the agent uses reinforcement learning with constrained optimization to determine the next best action for the lead in the sequence. Take the example of an introductory email. The agent uses a prompt tailored to the lead’s persona, pain points, and value props and customizes the prompt with the lead’s details. Regie’s LLM then generates the email content, and the agent autonomously sends the email to the lead. If the lead doesn’t reply but demonstrates interest through intent or engagement, the agent creates a priority call task for the sales rep, detailing key talking points and suggested next steps, or a social connection task, bringing the human in the loop when it matters most.”
NYTimes: “Leadership coaching can look a lot like therapy — two people talking about the challenges and aspirations of one of them — but it differs in important ways. By clinical tradition, therapy should occur in private treatment rooms decorated with sun-faded posters from major museum art exhibits of the 1980s. The pandemic loosened that up a bit, by hastening a transition to videoconference therapy, but coaches have always been free to practice anywhere — over dinner, drinks, even random text messages and phone calls. David Morelli, a Florida coach who wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject, told me another commonly cited distinction is that therapy mines the past to improve the present while coaching tweaks the present toward a brighter future. Morelli points out that this distinction is imperfect: Therapists and their clients can hardly avoid talking about the future; coaches, and especially those like Carnochan with psychoanalytic training, invariably discuss the past. Still, the basic idea has enduring currency, at least among coaches: People seek therapy because they suffer and wish to heal. People seek coaching because they wish to succeed — at, say, growing a startup, or being promoted, or taking on new responsibilities at work.”
WSJ: “AI literacy is the modern equivalent of typing in the 1970s and ’80s, a universal requirement for all students going into all fields of work, said Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School who researches the future of work. Job seekers should demonstrate that they can interact with a tool like ChatGPT and get the most accurate and thorough results, he said. And students should also be able to identify when AI is wrong. Valerie Capers Workman, chief talent engagement officer at Handshake, said generative AI is the new Microsoft Office. “The skill set will be ubiquitous 10 years from now, but in the next two to five years, it’s going to be a major asset in getting recruited,” she said. “
