Indian Business Podcast 10X Your BUSINESS and Build a POWERFUL Career: Kunal Shah’s UNFILTERED Business MASTERCLASS
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Aug 12, 2025 
In this session, Kunal Shah, the visionary founder of CRED, shares profound insights on what distinguishes high performers. He emphasizes hiring self-aware individuals and the need for clarity in communication as a key to success. Kunal discusses the importance of explaining ideas clearly, teaching to enhance learning, and how judgment surpasses popular opinion in leadership. He also unpacks the significance of empathy in understanding Indian consumers and the dangers of information overload in today’s fast-paced business environment.
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Anchor Culture In Few Clear Values
- Define a few core values and make hiring, appraisal and vocabulary revolve around them.
- Enforce values by not tolerating behaviors that contradict them and by practising consistency in leadership.
Judgment Is The Leadership Currency
- Good judgment ('being right a lot') is the core leadership trait people follow, not mere correctness.
- Judgment shows up in counterintuitive, high-conviction decisions under uncertainty.
Hire For Slope And Agency
- Hire for values, growth slope and self-awareness rather than surface credentials alone.
- Prefer ex-founders for coachability and intrinsic drive, and avoid hires who need constant external motivation.