Nishanth Kara

The Great GCC Paradox: We’re Hiring, but Losing India’s GCCs are expected to cross $100B by 2030. But here’s what no one’s openly talking about: We’re leaking talent at the top, and hiring at the bottom. 1. A new study by Mercer shows mid-career attrition in tech has doubled since 2022. 2. CXO-level hiring cycles in GCCs have stretched beyond 6 months (Zinnov, 2024). 3. Returnee talent with global exposure is still asked: Q) “Why do you want to come back?” Q) “Are you too senior for this role?” We’ve mastered delivery. But we’re stuck in a talent loop: - Entry-level upskilling is celebrated - Strategic leadership hiring is feared - Internal mobility is sluggish - Culture fit outweighs culture transformation The result? India’s most capable talent is being interviewed by Singapore, Berlin, and Dubai, while local GCCs are still refining JD drafts. What if the real growth limiter isn’t infrastructure or policy… …but our inability to bet on catalytic leadership? You can’t build a $100B ecosystem with a $1M mindset. Let’s talk: What one mindset shift would unlock India’s next-gen GCC play? #GCC #LeadershipHiring #IndiaTalentCrisis #DigitalTransformation #ReturneeTalent #LeadershipGap #CXOHiring #Mercer #Zinnov #StrategicIndia #FutureOfWork #TalentFlight #HyderabadTech #GCCReset Zinnov Achyut Menon "AK" LinkedIn News India Reshab Shaw Vishwanadh Raju Viswanathan K S GCC Pulse™ Korn Ferry KPMG India

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Was on a VC fund website today. Their “thesis” (and I am not kidding): “We invest seed stage in post-PMF startups.” Seedha bolo bhai- “We don’t invest. We have no intention to. We just like calling ourselves VCs so we can look important on LinkedIn.” Like seriously, 1. Post-PMF and seed stage? You can count them on your fingers. 2. And if one does exist, they’re not waiting for your cheque. Sequoia, Accel, and 20 angels are already camping outside their office with term sheets.

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Google Slashes 10% Of Managerial Staff In Hunt For 'Googleyness' Google is now pushing people towards individual contributor role. This is good and bad both. Bad for those who aspire to become manager and lead team right early in their career. With title and position comes power, fame and money (and more challenges). However now companies don't need managers. They need more doers. And that's good for people who love action but hate everything else. If you hate ↳ Politics ↳ Bureaucracy ↳ Meetings ↳ People pleasing and you love ↳ Action ↳ Hustle ↳ Iterations ↳ Creating ↳ Results Then its a great time to be an individual contributor. IC roles are on the rise. There will be few managers and more doers. However you must be good at what you do. IC role does not mean mediocrity. You must be really good at something (mostly creating value). You should also be good at lot of things. You need to be a T Shaped Personality. Make a promise to yourself to learn to learn and unlearn as much as possible. Follow Lokesh Gupta for updates on making yourself future proof.

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The advent of AI means that most people have to think of what AI can’t do and acquire skills to do that - this is a completely different world. One such example for me - Product mgmt and Engineering roles shall merge. Most engg leaders who don’t evolve to also product leaders shall become redundant !

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Here's what GTM looks like in 6 months to 1 year -- and which players will get left behind if they don't act now. Systems of Action (unknown MCP adoption): Kareem Amin and Varun Anand of Clay Systems of Record (unknown MCP adoption): Dharmesh Shah & Brian Halligan of Hubspot Systems of Information (MCP adopters): David Connors with The Swarm, #RoqRoqRoq Xever's Technographics, Ryan Buckley of Shovels ^-- And the system of Intelligence is Dario Amodei's Anthropic (MCP inventors) It's not just the MCP server that will connect all of this tissue, we will need other middleware like Ayan Barua's Ampersand (just launched MCP support) so that we're talking to our data, to our customer's data, and to our systems with robust connections so we are spending our time actioning not acting. Doug Bell and I will be first to march into this world with our weekly Cannonball GTM so that we can continue to disrupt ourselves. And we'll show brands the way to this future. But the tools we will adopt to have outsized outcomes in downsized amounts of times are those that CONNECT to our system of intelligence, not those that double down on, that insist that everything can be done in their own tool. Your differentiation in this new world is the QUALITY of your interoperability, not your ability to prevent it from happening. Get on board, now.

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