One of the key issues which are currently faced by the organizations across the world is retaining talent and the problem is far more acute in the services sector which is primarily labor people intensive in nature. The attrition figures have not only bothered HR departments for long but I have seen people having nightmares [...]
November 20th, 2009
Is Your Hierarchy Tuned to Control The Attrition?
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November 16th, 2009
Brand Paranoia: Does Your Brand Thinks You Are Dumb?
Brand names and trademarks have always been a sensitive area for the corporations. Given the amount of money and extensive efforts are put in marketing and advertising for the brand creation and recall. It is perfectly logical for the companies/corporations to be sensitive about the use and misuse of their brand names and trademark. There [...]
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November 3rd, 2009
Why the CEOs are Millionares at Your Expense
One of the ethical dilemmas between shareholders and management, I have come across is with a speech from the movie “The Wall Street” given by a character called Gordon Gekko. I am quoting the speech verbatim to set the context of my take on it- Gekko: Well, I appreciate the opportunity you’re giving me, Mr. [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Motivating after a Failure
A most important skill set in the times like today are dealing with failures. With all kinds of de-motivational environment around us, companies firing, drop in liquidity and problems in the credit market, companies going bankrupt. The last year has been a breeding place of people, companies and even the governments failing to grow, failing [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Enthusiasm in Organizations
I came across this statement – “If you are not fired with enthusiasm, then you would be fired with enthusiasm” quite a significant statement and very relevant in the current environment. What I think of here is going more to the core of the statement. The link between firing and enthusiasm, firing is an action [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Organizational IT in Downturn
Considering the current economic scenario & downturn, the first and foremost thing about the organization strategy which needs to be observed is, the primary impact of the downturn has resulted into a credit crunch situation. This essentially means that the cost of capital for an organization has gone higher and it also means that the [...]
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April 14th, 2009
Learning Culture
Learning Organization & Culture has been one of the most clichéd and misused terms. It is one of the terms which actually got highlighted and most of the organizations started including it in their sales pitch before actually implementing it. With my experience commonly the organizations have assumed the best way of implementing learning culture [...]
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April 9th, 2009
Cost Cutting Syndrome
In the turbulent times like these all the corporations are running haywire to cut costs, increasing efficiency and productivity. A lot of tough measures are being taken across corporations. The reality behind a lot of these cost cutting frenzies is a bit dark. Here is what I see around when I see corporations rolling out [...]
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March 24th, 2009
Management By Walking
I believe that “Management by Walking Around” is more of a concept or philosophy than a management style. The major point of contention between the two sides on disagreement is majorly because of the way the people might have tried to practice it. As per my interpretations of the philosophy the core message is the [...]
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