January 24, 2015
six things - indiaAs India steps into its 65th year of being a republic, India Inc celebrates the freedom to be an individual at the workplace…the most precious shift of the last 65 years.
December 12, 2014
It is funny how our view of what it takes to succeed changes over time – especially if you are at a B- School. In the pre-liberalization era, people who planned to pursue Human Resources would start their career on the shop floor. The job interviews would inevitably focus on testing the students on their depth of knowledge in labour laws. Trade Union leaders like Datta Samant would hit magazine covers as often as the movie stars – even if it was for the wrong reasons.
November 23, 2014
How can we use technology to create more meaningful analysis of Training Needs
November 14, 2014
Thiel has strong opinions on everything – even how you should dress (hint: don’t wear suits ever!). He is a contrarian and is unafraid of offending you by challenging your world view.The book certainly inspired me to abandon incremental thinking. This book should be read by everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur. You cannot think short term. Thiel may know a thing or two about success. The PayPal core team members went on to start Yammer, LinkedIn, YouTube and Yelp. In that sense the book will become a handbook that entrepreneurs will read in order to really ask whether their idea really is going to be a “Zero to One” idea just like this book.
October 11, 2014
Changes in media drive shifts in people’s behavior. People share their deepest secrets on social media. We are all getting comfortable handling much more information about each other than we have ever before.The most visible shift has been in the way we seek information and make decisions both in and […]
August 7, 2014
Technology is driving a massive shift in the away we work. Whether it is wearable technology or a simple app in your mobile, it is giving people information that enables them to make choices. What these changes are doing in almost invisible ways is to shift our approach to decision […]
August 5, 2014
I looked at the puzzled expressions on the faces of the 200 MBAs we had hired from the campus. This was day one at work. I was going to talk to them about “reinventing careers”. Isn’t it too early to think about reinvention on the first day at work, they […]
June 22, 2014
Across the rich world the well educated people are working longer than the less skilled. In the age group of 62-74 in America, 65% people with a professional degree are still working compared to only 32% of people who didn’t go to college. The incomes of the highly skilled are […]
May 10, 2014
A minute on the internet means 240 million emails; 4 million Google searches; 48000 app downloads 277,000 tweets. The net has gone social in a big way. BRANDfog’s 2013 CEO, Social Media Leadership Survey raised the big question, why are CEOs/CMOs not present on social media channels? You would have […]