Leadership & Culture | Abhijit Bhaduri

April 19, 2015

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Twitter Tips: What To Tweet

You have an account on Twitter and use it to read stuff that people have to say. You look at their tweets and wonder how they can think of something clever and deep to say every day. Then you sigh and log off because you have never figured out what […]

February 14, 2015

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The Purple Squirrel

A “Purple Squirrel” is that person who fits the role, the culture of the new organization to the T. And can straight away start performing at peak requirement. Do they exist? How do we find them? In practice I have never seen such an animal. But then I have never […]

March 14, 2013

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Hard To Look Into The Mirror

Try this out in your organization some time. Ask the employees how many of them would rate their performance and skills in the 90th percentile or more. Statistically speaking, that should be no more than ten percent of the employees who have been asked the question. But real life is […]

February 25, 2013

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Design Thinking

When we are given a problem to solve, we spend time thinking about the problem and reframe the issue and try many things in our head to move towards a solution. Design thinking actually takes the problem to the customer or consumer whose problem we are trying to solve.Design changes […]

February 16, 2013

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Interviewed by Prem Rao

Prem Rao is an author and storyteller has two of his books on the shelves: “It Can’t Be You” (2010) and ” Lucky For Some, 13″ (2012). You can see his Facebook page here. After 36 years as a Corporate Executive, Talent Management specialist and executive coach, Prem is now […]

January 31, 2013

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Using Social Media to Learn

It was Singapore based HR consultant Tanvi Gautam’s idea to get a virtual community together and discuss how to use social media (SM) to upgrade the skills of employees. The idea was to experiment and see what we could learn from each other. We could ask questions and get answers […]

December 28, 2012

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Will You Be An Effective People-Manager

It is important to segregate performance and potential while deciding to promote someone. During the talent review ask yourself how many of your top performers are NOT in the high potential category. It is easy to recognize performance. Potential is harder to evaluate. Organizations are full of people who manage […]

December 11, 2012

December 11, 2012

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Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar

Born: April 7, 1920, Varanasi, India Died: December 11, 2012 (age 92 years), If you played a word association game, chances are that Pandit Ravi Shankar and the sitar would be synonyms. With his passing away, on 11 December 2012, India lost a Bharat Ratna. The sitar has lost its greatest evangelist.I was a […]

October 15, 2012

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Self Awareness Helps Us Choose Careers Better

I was once asked to speak to a group of high school students on how to choose careers. I wanted to know what they defined as a career, and so we started to list all possible options they could come up with. We first listed career choices that would “make […]