PinnedWorkplace culture quadrant.A framework for workplace culture. — Every People Manager is aware of the fact that culture is all about values; the values espoused, the values practiced and the values celebrated. But how do we celebrate trust and honesty as values? How do practice them? …Culture3 min read
PinnedA perspective on honestyAn understanding of honesty as an application at the workplace. When we talk about being honest, we presume it from our own understanding of it’s meaning and relate to it the way we prefer to define our interpretation of honesty. It has been long debated and observed that not every…Honesty4 min read
PinnedReading this won’t make you famous (but it can help in the journey)We are all in a hurried journey to become famous. As Naval Ravikant points out, ‘it is better to be rich and anonymous than be poor and famous.’ Perhaps what people seek to become through fame is wealthy; the easy staircase to celebritydom or have power over our experiences. …Reading3 min read
Jun 8Reasoning for Justice: an introductionIn the pursuit of justice, we may augur to begin with defining right and wrong. Without these two, justice will be flawed and remain an incomplete call to action. Without playing with words, I would like to address the point at hand; inequality is the feeling which drives us to…Justice10 min read
May 17PCM Hierarchy for #PeopleManagementI begun the discussion on the PCM hierarchy in a previous post and sought to extend it further here. PCM stands for Process Complexity Management. And it forms a hierarchy based on the perspective you view it from. So let me begin with some basics. All that we know comes…Pcm Hierarchy4 min read
Apr 22What will you do after you dieYou won’t get to cry, Though you are dead, What a pity,…sigh, but you won’t get to cry after you die. And then there will be drinks And people will eat But you will be dead, and won’t get your bread! What a pity,…sigh, but you won’t get to cry …Poetry1 min read
Feb 9Performance appraisal vs. managementa story of everyday cringes at the workplace. Building a new tool, the engineer wanted to explain the details to the marketing team to build their campaign…”this function enhances the ability to produce more heat for higher efficiency….” quipped the Engineer while a retinue of “wait, hang on…” from the…Performance4 min read
Jan 1What Business Managers need to learn about People Management…and focus on performance potential rather than business objectives. There goes a story of a business merchant who hired a person to help him sell his wares. As the days progressed, the merchant was not only exuberant about the ‘wonderful lad’ he had hired, he boasted about it to his…Leadership3 min read
Nov 28, 2021The importance of Curiosity in People Scalingor, the importance of curiosity in Leadership! If the role of Leadership as People Scaling has not yet confronted your mind, I would suggest to review my previous articles. Having taken the risk of not including Leadership in the title is a reputational gain I am willing to forego. …Leadership4 min read
Oct 6, 2021Distractions in managing TalentThe advent of technology today has cut across multiple hierarchies and barriers of business and its expresses in terms of financial and social transactions. …Talent5 min read
