Entrepreneur · Author · Business Educator
Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna is an Indian entrepreneur, business educator, and creator known for Intellectual Indies and Lapaas. At Indies Education, he turns business research and operating experience into rigorous, practical lessons.
- 684
- Published lessons
- 1M+
- Primary-channel subscribers
- 2017
- Intellectual Indies founded
Background and practice
From engineering fundamentals to practical business education
Sahil’s published profiles describe a transition from chemical engineering into marketing and management. That combination—systems thinking from engineering and commercial judgment from business—continues to shape how he explains complex ideas.
He founded Intellectual Indies in 2017 and built it into a business-learning content ecosystem covering company case studies, startups, marketing, strategy, and candid founder conversations. He also founded Lapaas, a New Delhi digital-marketing and education business. Sahil describes his entrepreneurial journey as including the eventual exit from the agency he built.
Across workshops, courses, consulting, and digital media, Sahil’s work has reached students, startup founders, legacy-business owners, and operating teams. His primary Intellectual Indies channel has more than one million subscribers. Sahil’s public profiles describe a combined audience above two million across his content ecosystem, while Lapaas course pages report more than 140,000 entrepreneurs reached through its educational work.
At Indies Education, Sahil serves as author and lead educator. Every lesson is designed to go beyond definitions: readers should understand the mechanism, examine evidence and limits, apply a framework, and leave with an action plan and checklist.
Elsewhere
Profiles and source notes
Written by Sahil Khanna
Latest business lessons
Evidence-led chapters designed to move from understanding to action.
To-Do Lists That Clarify Real Commitments
A rigorous, practical guide to turn obligations into clear actionable commitments while preserving priorities, context, capacity, dependencies, waiting states, and review. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Action Programs: Build an Integrated Work System
A rigorous, practical guide to integrate projects, next actions, delegated work, scheduled commitments, reference, and future possibilities into one reviewed action system. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
David Allen’s Input Processing Technique
A rigorous, practical guide to process captured inputs into clear outcomes, actions, waiting, calendar, reference, incubation, or deletion using a trusted workflow. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Cost Your Time for Better Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to estimate the economic and opportunity cost of time for pricing, prioritization, delegation, process design, and capacity decisions without claiming every hour has one price. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to.
Multitasking: Costs, Limits and Better Systems
A rigorous, practical guide to manage unavoidable concurrency while reducing costly task switching, divided attention, unfinished work, and error. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Leverage: Multiply Impact Without Hidden Costs
A rigorous, practical guide to increase valuable impact through elimination, standardization, delegation, automation, reusable assets, capability, and systems while managing fragility and transferred burden. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Be More Organized at Work for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to create an external system for commitments, information, space, routines, and review that reduces search, omission, duplication, and cognitive load. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
The Art of Filing: Design for Retrieval
A rigorous, practical guide to design a filing system around retrieval, provenance, access, retention, version, and disposal rather than accumulation. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Managing Electronic Files Safely and Clearly
A rigorous, practical guide to manage digital files with consistent naming, metadata, version control, permissions, synchronization, backup, retention, and recoverability. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Managing Email Effectively Without Inbox Theatre
A rigorous, practical guide to use email as a deliberate communication channel with clear response norms, processing routines, action capture, records discipline, and escalation. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Prioritization: Make Scarce Capacity Explicit
A rigorous guide to choosing what deserves scarce capacity. Learn to compare value, urgency, delay cost, dependencies, effort, risk, and strategic fit; make exclusions explicit; stage uncertain work; and review priorities when evidence or constraints change.
Eisenhower’s Urgent–Important Principle
A rigorous, practical guide to separate urgency from importance so immediate demands do not crowd out prevention, capability, relationships, and long-horizon outcomes. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.