Two worlds apart, music and management appear to have little in common.

Think again, says HCL Technologies Chief Marketing Officer Krishnan Chatterjee, who believes the pursuit of change is bridging these two worlds today.

I have always looked forward to the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum. This year too, as I wrote earlier, I was excited about the prospect of brainstorming the conference theme - Shared norms for a new reality. Yet, oddly, having reached the serene Alpine town of Davos, I couldn’t rid myself of a nagging doubt: Was all this high-level brainstorming worth it?

Reading the PWC 14th Annual Global CEO survey, I was quite pleased to see the increased focus on talent development across the world. Business leaders were getting deeply involved in efforts to develop talent strategically, and tactically, when needed.

It’s easy to see the benefits of global meeting in Davos, but the CEO of HCL wonders if there are better uses of the 75,000 executive hours.

What am I doing here?

Maybe it was the change of climate or the jet lag or something I ate. But as I arrived in Davos today and gazed up at the snowy peaks, that’s the question I was asking myself.

Mere pas maa hai. When India’s musical maestro A.R. Rahman quoted one of Bollywood’s most famous lines in his Oscar acceptance speech last year, the significance of his words was not lost on the millions of Indians watching.