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LATEST ARTICLES ( 25 )

• Hiring Ex-service Persons is a Natural Choice

  If we go beyond our patriotic urge, and see further from the prevalent stereotypes, it is easy to see how hiring ex-service-persons (veterans from the defense... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Surviving a Spike in Employee Attrition

  It's the basic rules that we need to follow, when we are faced with a spike in employee attrition. surviving a spike in employee attrition from Parag Pandey on... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• De-bugging the Bell-curve of Performance Ratings

  It's not about whether the bell-curve of performance rating distribution is dead or not. It's also not about the loudest criticisms of the bell curve. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Case for the Greying Workforce in India

  India will reap the full benefit of the demographic dividend, if it widens the discourse, to also include the continued employment and employability of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Choreographing an Intentional Career

  The grey question is whether a career is accidental or intentional. Should one go with the flow or take charge ? I think that choreographing an intentional... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Make of a Break

  A few days ago, my mother said to me, “please go back to work … you wanted to be off work for a year or so … that’s more than done now”. “Why, now even your wif... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Understanding and Managing Gen Y, Relatively Speaking That Is

  In many years, I haven’t been as taken in by a book, as I have been by Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It is an amazingly honest account, unedited... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Father's Day Wish for My Kids

  This Father’s Day, I got a breakfast at a local eatery and a head massage from my kids. And I wished something for them. It didn’t matter at all that the wish... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Foot Fist Aasana, a Remedy for Work and Life

  WhenI think of the extraordinarily perceptive people, I think of one person beforeI think of others. On separate occasions, he has told me stuff about me. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Selling Organic Food for Thought

  Anew store that sold organic farm produce opened up in our neighbourhood. I justhad to visit the place, a sucker that I am for organic stuff. And I did. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Earth Calling TCS and MEA : Change a Bit ... Check All

  Ireally don’t know what the world is coming to. I’d barely done some days ofinternet search for travel to and stay in Hong Kong when my inboxes wereinundated... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Employees Who Want More Pay Than They Need Are Like Employers Who Want to Pay...

  Iwish the media pushed half as hard to get people to donate eyes for thevisually impaired, as they do to get eyeballs for the sake of circulation andviewership. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hate to Lose More Than You Love to Win ?

  Afew days ago, I watched ‘Moneyball’, starring Brad Pitt, acting as a forty-somethingfailed baseball player turned team manager, and Jonah Hill, playing his... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of Liberty and Fraternity, in Coaching

  After reflecting on my experiences and organising my thoughts on the subject of coaching, this is what I have to say.Think sports and academic institutes if... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Think Sports and Academic Institutes to Make Coaching Programs Effective

  “We’rethinking of bringing in coaches for our people … would you consider being oneof them ?”, somebody asked me. I said that I would be happy to, but that I wa... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Vote and Vote Well

  Afew days ago, during the city’s municipal corporation elections, I cast myfirst ever vote.Duringthe run-up to the day of the elections, I was very excited to... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hire, as the Wise People Do

  I’mjust back from attending a wedding in my ancestral village. While there, Ithought many times about some wise people who were no more. And about whatthey’d... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Best Massage for Me is the One Which I Only Half Experience

  Iunderstand that the word ‘parlour’ is derived from a French word which means‘to speak’. But I do not visit a massage parlour to speak. I go there to sleep.And ... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Can We Have Some More of That Sauce Please ?

  

  Afew days ago, an article in a newspaper article read something like this - “...we need business leaders to mature faster ... since we have a growing economy”. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION

• Teachers Told Us to Share

  

  One small glass of milk separately, or a tall one together ?Everseen a job advertisement or an internal job posting that reads, “we’ve clubbedthe roles of... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 CAREER, SELF EXPRESSION