How the Board of Directors can maintain ‘dignity’ while ‘sacking’ employees?
10th July 2017 Great CEOs apologize when required. In the past CEOs have apologized for ‘inadvertently’ caused mistakes ranging from quality issues, environmental hazards, safety incidents and even financial frauds. However, a rather unique apology was tendered, first by the CEO of a large Indian IT services company followed, by the Chairman of the USD […]
What the bleep is employee experience
The newest kid on the ‘HR jargon block’ is ‘Employee Experience’. While the world of work is still grappling with a common and correct understating of Employee Engagement, billions of dollars are now being spent on Employee Experience. While the Engagement movement was owned by the ‘Behavioral Scientists’, Technology Companies have emerged as the guardians […]
Art of war (for talent)
The ‘War for Talent’ is NOT just about the challenges an organization faces in attracting and recruiting the right people, at the right time and at the right cost. This is just one of the many battles that the business enterprises are grappling with. Organizations today are fighting two types of battles in the war, […]
Not giving a Fuck and five other leadership Imperatives
Recommended reading list for new age leaders The rapid invasion of the human ecosystem by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Analytics etc. have augmented our performance capabilities to unprecedented levels. Humans and machines are working in tandem to accomplish feats, once conceived only in the sci-fi realm. As the ‘Sophia’s’ of the new world get […]
The most important thing to see today for tomorrow
Have you been daydreaming in these days of lockdown? What ambition and aspirations you want to fulfil tomorrow, when teh world is back on track? Dreams, aspirations and ambitions are essentially just different names given to “what we want”. Life is so interesting that at some point or the other, we all would have […]
Total Employee Experience – The new synonym for Employee Engagement
Since its inception, employee engagement is seen as a local (read team level) phenomenon and is believed to be largely driven by the ‘workgroup level’ dynamics. In such a reality the team manager, is true, the central anchor of employee engagement. At one time Gallup estimated that managers account for at least 70%(1) of the […]