Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers, skills and the world of work. The cartoons and sketches are mine.
The Complexity of Inclusion
Every variant of a product creates more complexity in the factory because new raw materials are needed. It needs new marketing campaigns and takes up shelf space. If the consumer buys the new variant, other companies will follow. Creating a more inclusive set of options results in wastage, more complexity to produce and encourages consumerism. There is a second order effect of being inclusive.
Youthful, Mature or Veteran
Age based generalisations are fairly accurate and predictive when we are younger. The same approach is inaccurate when we are older. We will soon have five generations working side-by-side. It is important to take a nuanced view of those who are above 50 years old.
Lying Is A Superpower - Use It Sparingly
Lying is socially undesirable. Yet, most of us lie several times a day, the rest do it all the time. It is a superpower that people routinely use to tempt fate, defy death and achieve the impossible. Sometimes we call it reality distortion. Sometimes we call it meaning making.
Is Audio The Next Employer Branding Platform?
When we think of building a brand, we think of a logo and color and the typical font. Branding is not only visual. It is also all about sound. Try watching a horror film without the sound and you will know how much of your movie experience is created by the sound. Live audio is creating that possibility. Mentza and Clubhouse have become spots for recruiters to find talent. What’s next?
Handling The WFH Question During A Job-Interview
As businesses are slowly opening up the offices, the candidates are facing this tricky question in the job-interviews. Do you prefer to work from home or come to the office. How should you answer it.
Build Your Superpower This Father's Day
You can get 80,000 varieties of coffee at Starbucks and it will take three human lifetimes to try them all. You still have one lifetime and a limited budget to try it all. It takes a certain superpower to manage it all. Today I will share them with you.
Formal Learning - what matters to learners
What motivates adults to sign up for a formal learning opportunity? This may be useful for you to decide if you really need to join the next conference you are being invited to. When adults want to embrace a formal learning opportunity, they want to learn from a Master. It is who I WANT to learn from - not just who can teach the subject.
The Extended Mind
It is not like the hard disk of your laptop that determines the capability of the laptop. Our brain's powers can be extended like the external drives and USB drives we use to improve our laptop.
Think Like an Anthropologist
Science has created the vaccine. But to persuade people to take the vaccine, we have to stop using logic and leverage behavioural science instead.
Our Assumptions About Talent Shape HR Policies
When I think about the workplace, the image in my mind is that of a blender where you put in multiple kinds of fruits and get a mixed product with remote workers, in-office employees, bots, full-time, part-time, and contingent talent – all of that
Grief - the ignored emotion at workplaces
Grief in the workplace remains invisible. Most of us are unaware of grief that our colleagues may be experiencing. Unresolved grief is dysfunctional.
Decision Fatigue
There is a cost of working long hours. We start taking increasingly poor decisions. Being well rested is a good business strategy
Skills That The Customer Facing Teams Need
The best managers go out of their way to help people do work they enjoy—even if it means rotating them out of roles where they're excelling. We do not enjoy doing every job that we CAN do.
How to Onboard New Hires
What does a cooking video and a music video have to do with designing a corporate onboarding program? Both tell us how learning experiences must be designed.
Lack of Experience Can Be An Advantage
It is so frustrating to enter the world of work if every employer wants to hire only those people who have prior experience. After all everyone has to start somewhere. Research shows that even first-time CEOs have that problem. There is an advantage the novice has.
The Invisible Enemy
Having the wrong leader is a recipe for failure whether it is a Dreamer organisation or a Unicorn or a globally present Market Shaper. We look for three wrong qualities when we choose leaders. That is the beginning of a disastrous stint for the institution.
The Invisible Enemy
Most people have a fairly inaccurate sense of their own talents, especially when the question is how good they are in comparison to other people. It is important to assess leaders because a standardised assessment can tell you where your best talent would stack up against other leaders.