March 6, 2025
Stone ruins beside a bold slogan advocating for anthropology over an MBA in HR, highlighting the value of cultural insight and adaptability in the workplace.

HR Needs Less MBA, More Anthropology—Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing

Ever wondered why employees trust Glassdoor , Blind , and Reddit, Inc. more than their own HR department? Or why leadership development programs always have to prove ROI, while compliance training gets an automatic green light? Or why HR still struggles to build employer brands, even though Marketing has been […]
March 6, 2025
Cartoon character representing corporate L&D, frustrated by boring content, forced courses, and losing out on upskilling to competitors with bigger budgets.

If upskilling is such a strategic priority, why is the L&D team losing out to this competitor?

I have spent time in L&D teams in different organizations as an employee and as a consultant. If you have a Corporate L&D team, you know how they will hound you to complete the “mandatory training”. If upskilling is such a priority, then why has this competitor been winning for […]
March 6, 2025
Cartoon of a chaotic moving day with a tilting house and a sunny sky. Features a "Mehta Movers" truck, humorously capturing the moving adventure.

Moving, Mehta (not Meta) and Most Admired

When cinema first transitioned from silent films to talkies, directors struggled. They filmed movies as if they were just capturing a play—static cameras, actors enunciating as if the audience was in the last row of a theater. It took creative rule-breakers to realize that the camera could move, zoom, and […]