Live-in with an organisation
Someone comes up to you and says, “I want to be in a live-in relationship”. And you begin to think. Does this person want to choose convenience over responsibility? Keep an exit option open and be...
View ArticleMarching song
Two things are top of mind for me these days. Well, there are others; but for this show, I want to spare you the distractions of a multi-starrer film, and save myself the obligation of granting each...
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Seen that cook lately ?
Just as I was about to speak to my cook of ten years, my brain began sending this live feed to the rest of me. "Control your expression ! You do like his work, loyalty, sincerity, attitude and...
View ArticleMake the future work
Yesterday, one of my friends called me to say, “I have taken the advice that your elder brother gave you. To get a loan from a bank and buy another house”. I laughed out loud. Because, I knew instantly...
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Diversity by design
There’s a university and an organisation I know about which promote and protect diversity. Much more than some others do. And consistently deliver results. Also much more than some others do. Whether...
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A small glass of milk each or a tall one together ?
Ever seen a job advertisement or an internal job posting that reads, “we’ve clubbed the roles of sales manager and marketing manager into one … please pair up with someone and apply … the selected pair...
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Can we have some more of that sauce please ?
A few days ago, an article in a newspaper article read something like this - “... we need business leaders to mature faster ... since we have a growing economy”. To me, it seemed like the article was...
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The best massage for me is the one which I only half experience
I understand that the word ‘parlour’ is derived from a French word which means ‘to speak’. But I do not visit a massage parlour to speak. I go there to sleep. And a massage which can’t lull me to...
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Hire, as the wise people do
I’m just back from attending a wedding in my ancestral village. While there, I thought many times about some wise people who were no more. And about what they’d said to me, off and on, over the years....
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Vote and vote well
A few days ago, during the city’s municipal corporation elections, I cast my first ever vote.During the run-up to the day of the elections, I was very excited to discover my voter registration details...
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Of liberty and fraternity, in coaching
Think sports and academic institutes if you want to make coaching in the workplace more effective. Remember we’re talking about adults here. It’s different and easier with children, since someone else...
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Hate to lose more than you love to win ?
A few days ago, I watched ‘Moneyball’, starring Brad Pitt, acting as a forty-something failed baseball player turned team manager, and Jonah Hill, playing his twenty-something nerdish assistant. If you...
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The fair play in fair pay
I wish the media pushed half as hard to get people to donate eyes for the visually impaired, as they do to get eyeballs for the sake of circulation and viewership.A television channel claimed to have...
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Selling organic food for thought
A new store that sold organic farm produce opened up in our neighbourhood. I just had to visit the place, a sucker that I am for organic stuff. And I did. While there, I picked up asparagus, pok-choi,...
View ArticleFoot fist aasana for work life remedies
When I think of the extraordinarily perceptive people, I think of one person before I think of others. On separate occasions, he has told me stuff about me. Things, which were completely unfamiliar...
View ArticleUnderstanding and managing Gen Y, relatively speaking that is
In many years, I haven’t been as taken in by a book, as I have been by Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It is an amazingly honest account, unedited by Steve Jobs or any other affected or...
View ArticleThe make of a break
A few days ago, my mother said to me, “please go back to work … you wanted to be off work for some time … that’s more than done now”. “Why, now even your wife is talking like you do !”, she exclaimed....
View ArticleChoreographing an intentional career
The grey question is whether a career is accidental or intentional. Should one go with the flow or take charge ? We think that choreographing an intentional career could do with some lessons from the...
View ArticleA case for the greying workforce in India
India will reap the full benefit of the demographic dividend, if it widens the discourse, to also include the continued employment and employability of the greying workforce.Please view the demo video...
View ArticleDe-bugging the bell-curve of performance ratings
It's not about whether the bell-curve of performance rating distribution is dead or not. It's also not about the loudest criticisms of the bell curve. It's rather about what rating distribution serves...
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