Posts on operational excellence and exploitation of present opportunities. Focussing on current trends and gaps in learning, leadership, OD and change.
In these times of social distancing, those of us who are alive, well and at home, have so much to be grateful for. It’s not easy to work from home for those of us used to a routine outside of home. It’s just as hard for those of us who work from home and work ...
My maternal grandfather was a very scientific man. Surprisingly so, for a man who worked his way up the ranks from a young boy in hotel kitchens to a senior finance and accounts manager. Science and medicine may not have been a part of his career but were certainly an obsession in his personal life. He ...
Peter Senge called it The Dance of Change. And I can increasingly appreciate why. As I observed a group activity at an OD class recently, my mind reflected on the nature of organizations and organization development today. Here are a few of my reflections. Balance, patience, reflection, perseverance, practice. Trust me. It really is a dance. Ambidexterity is ...
Ravikumar at work is a high-performing project manager co-leading the year’s most prestigious project with an equally brilliant female colleague. Ravikumar at home is a son, husband and father in a patriarchal family where he is the sole earning member. How does Ravikumar reconcile his personal and professional roles? How can he be an inclusive, empowering male colleague ...
I watched the movie, “The Walk” this week. And it shook me to the core. We live in a world increasingly torn between stifling innovation with tighter intellectual property, company policy, organizational culture and government regulations on the one side and raving about the power of disruption in entrepreneurship that can change the world on ...
So you’ve taken the MBTI instrument in some training program at work and it gave you this mysterious four letter type. Do you remember the combination? I’m sure the day at training was fun and there were a lot of laughs, people got divided into groups and it seemed like a fun “Us versus Them” ...
Being an entrepreneur or a leader is no easy task. It requires relentless decision making in a manner that most decisions will carry some form of short-term or long-term impact on your business, your customers, your product, your people and you. Decision making therefore, requires alertness and is a tiring job even when only mental ...
It was Friday morning. We were taking the elevator down to the basement this morning to drive in to work, my husband and I. One of those days when we had a long wait before one of the elevators finally showed up, it was the smaller one, and it already had a family of two ...
Originally published in Human Capital Online as Deriving the Success Factors by Radhika Subramanian and Prof. P. Vijayakumar in May 2014 The talent management context Priyanka is a recruiter who works with Magica, an FMCG in the personal care retail space. Magica is an organization with evolved HR practices and in the past two years of working with ...