February 15, 2014
Interview with a renowned author on career growth, talent, and leadership in work. Insights into HR and developing skills for success.

The Adam Grant Interview

In the long run, the most effective style is not taking or matching, but giving: helping others with no strings attached.  Givers tend to build deeper and broader networks than takers and matchers, investing in meaningful relationships that provide motivation, social capital, and access to new ideas. Adam Grant spoke to me about hiring, networking and his own approach to managing time.

February 8, 2014
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The Poetry Quoting Geek

In the very first email Satya Nadella, the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft told his employees, “Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.” That is also an accurate summary of the challenge that the CEO will face after the celebrations have died down.He should know. After […]
January 18, 2014
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Lost Conversations

Like many others I took my vacation at the year end to spend time with the family and to catch up with my reading list. My wife and I had warned our children that the hotel had told us that they did not have television. We were driving out very […]
October 2, 2013
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The Brand Matters

India will soon have a fifth of the world’s working-age population. Hiring fresh undergraduates who have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Commerce and Sciences is a great source of talent. The same goes for students who seek employment after doing an MBA.The educational institutions have largely been slow to […]
September 15, 2013
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A Global Mindset

On a flight back to India from Europe, I was seated next to the head of a firm that supplied to some of the largest automobile manufacturers across the world. He handed me a business card that spelt his name in Hindi as well as in English. I flipped the […]