I wrote this post as a guest post for “The HR Store”, When ‘The HR Store’ asked me to write a guest post for his blog, I was not only surprised but overwhelmed with gratitude. The gratitude because, one of the best compliments you can get from a blogger is that he thinks your views [...]
December 17th, 2009
Three Mistakes Innovation as a Culture
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December 12th, 2009
JIT Recruitment in IT & The Future of It
I have always believed that the Indian IT services ran a close ship with analogies to the traditional manufacturing industries. I actually wrote a satire post distinctly relating the IT industry concepts with the Supply Chain Management. However, with the latest news coming in with Wipro and TCS talking of revamping recruitment structure over JIT [...]
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December 1st, 2009
Processes for Entrepreneurs with Multiple Start-Ups
I was sitting with one of my friends who is a first generation entrepreneur, he runs an two ventures. One of his ventures is a successful one with a relatively constant revenue stream through good clientele; however the other one is still in a nascent stage to generate sustainable revenue stream. He was discussing his [...]
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November 20th, 2009
Is Your Hierarchy Tuned to Control The Attrition?
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 [...]
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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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