Future of Work | Abhijit Bhaduri

July 6, 2013

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Global Trends & Insights

The Trouble with Revolutions on Social Media

Newspapers appear the every morning with your tea cup. These days the newspaper only serves as a recap of yesterday’s event since you are more than likely to have already watched it on television the previous evening. Actually, even the television is not all that current. Twitter has nudged televisions […]

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 […]

January 8, 2013

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Future of Work & AI

Interview with Human Capital Magazine

Human Capital magazine described Don’t Hire the Best as the “Bible of Hiring”. The December 2012 issue of the magazine carries the clips of a conversation I had with Sannita Chakraborty Saha. HC. Apart from being an HR professional of great caliber, you are also a writer? What drove you to […]

August 22, 2012

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Books, Media & Creative

Love, Life & Cliches

The Deccan Chronicle carried a review of Mediocre But Arrogant. The review was done by Anjana Basu who works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. Her poems have featured in anthologies published by Penguin India and Authorpress. Anjana Basu has worked on scripts with director, Rituparno Ghosh, for Antarmahal and […]

July 16, 2012

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Great Global Leaders

What makes a global leader effective? The Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) is a part of the Corporate Executive Board (www.clc.executiveboard.com). A leader with strategic, P&L or operational responsibilities across more than one country is a global leader according to them. I believe it has to do with the mindset. Does […]

June 9, 2012

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In Praise of Slack Time

The world is just so over this whole phase of doing things more efficiently. Over those are still slaving away squeezing out an extra drop of juice out of an already disfigured and dry slice of lime. The world has already figured out how to get another day’s brushing out […]

May 17, 2012

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Learning Mobility

The Pew Internet Project report released last week throws up some compelling statistics about Mobile Usage. You may have yourself used your mobile phone for most of these activities – if not all of them.41% of cell phone owners used their phone in the previous 30 days to coordinate a […]

May 11, 2012

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Global Trends & Insights

Trading Off Privacy

There is no such thing as a free lunch. On the Internet, this saying is even more true. We pay for everything free. The currency is our data. Each time someone is assembling a picture of you - maybe with information you do not know you have handed over. Read on.

September 11, 2011

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Nudge the Elephant

This is an exciting time to be in India. The employees under thirty years of age represent a very large chunk of the demographically young India. By 2030, the global labor force is expected to grow by 300 million, with India projected to enjoy a vastly disproportionate two thirds of […]