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Srishti Shah

Thinking Out Loud

Most businesses are not broken.
They are just unwritten.

I’m Shri. I write about business structure, the psychology of people at work, and what it actually takes to build something that lasts, without the chaos.

“I believe the best businesses are built on clarity — of purpose, of people, of process. I write to make that clarity accessible.”

From The Journal

What I’ve Been Writing

WHAT I AM LEARNING

Reading “Ajaya: Roll of the Dice” Reminded Me That Every Villain Has a Version

Anand Neelakantan retells the Mahabharata from Duryodhana’s side, and the uncomfortable truth is that nobody in a company thinks of themselves as the…

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WHAT I AM LEARNING

Reading Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” Made Me Listen Differently in Meetings

Freud’s distinction between the dream you remember and the wish underneath it turns out to be the most useful idea I have found for reading what is…

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BUSINESS · BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY

The Second-in-Command Problem: Why Your Right Hand Keeps Turning Into a Messenger

You hired a number two so everything would stop coming to you. Eighteen months later, it still does. The person is rarely the problem. The role was…

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