New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- Rashesh Shah, chairman of the financial services conglomerate Edelweiss and an avid long-distance runner, was participating in a run in Khandala, near Pune, in 2015 with a specific target. He wanted to complete the distance, which included a 16km uphill stretch, in under two hours. Headphones on, he was focused, not interacting with anyone, and finished in two hours, three minutes. On the way back home to Mumbai, he was upset that he didn't achieve his target. But by the time he got back, his outlook to running-and running a business-had changed, "from scarcity to abundance kind of a mindset," he says.

The next year, Shah was a "happy runner", agreeing to selfies, having conversations with other runners, and still p...