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Wholesome Leadership and Self Mastery
By Anu Wakhlu
May 1st 2010
Leaders in the world of business have the potential to create positive break-through for the entire planet. This however requires a different kind of Leadership than what we have been used to.The leaders of today need to be different from the leaders of yesterday. Today, business can no longer see itself as an isolated island dedicated merely to the creation of shareholder wealth. Business Leaders have begun to recognize their larger role in delivering value to all stakeholders and preserving ... Read more »
The Concept of Time and the Acceptance of Shoddiness
By Rajeshwar Upadhyaya
Apr 1st 2010
“I wasted time; now Time doth waste me” – Richard II“...India is because of that wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology which first of all gives a time-scale for the Earth and the universe – a time-scale which is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology”. – Carl Segan, CosmosIn continuation with the theme of our previous article, the second point being driven here is an equally pertinent one. This has to do with Time. Let’s go back to Bra... Read more »
Why so much Employee Development Fails and how to make it Stick?
By Raj Bowen
Mar 2nd 2010
World-over, there is possibly no other corporate activity which has lower ‘evidence of success’ as Investment on Employee DevelopmentWhile many well-studied measures of ROI remain valid - the investment is usually upfront - the benefits accrue over a period of time. This realization itself makes it necessary that, vis-à-vis post event analysis, prior planning may have more significant payoffs.At PDI Ninth House, an organisation committed to research in the domain of talent e... Read more »
Looking Forward to a Monday Morning
By Shantanu Dhar, Asst. Executive Director, Dalmia Cements
Mar 2nd 2010
While experts focus over the creation of an organization of the future, a little introspection might reveal that your workplace already has the necessary ingredientsStudy after study on workplace climate, et al, have been read and forgotten. Loads of sur-veys have been done and clever consultants have presented clever reports (that no one would confess to not understanding!) on how to create the workplace of tomorrow.The more I read them and the more I interact with such wise men (and women), ... Read more »
Bet on L&D to Save the Day
By Sudakshina Basak
Mar 2nd 2010
Organizations in India are yet to recognize that L&D can emerge as a true strategic partner and can be designed as a function that can contribute to the sustainability of the organizationL&D is an integral part of the employee’s growth process within any organization, which in medium and long term contributes immensely to the evo-lution of the organization itself. In India though L&D is considered as an essential element of employee-grooming, it has been observed empirically ... Read more »
Celebrating Diversity
By Anil Sachdev
Nov 4th 2009
Each person is different - we have differ-ent emotional attributes. The ability to relate, empathize, trust or the tendency to get into conflict, or get angry are all features of the mind. At the intellectual level, we display analytical and logical thinking on the one hand, and creative and intuitive abilities on the other. All these features of the body, mind and intellect combine to generate capacities to learn, think, relate and act.These features enable the development of competencies suc... Read more »
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
By Rajeshwar Upadhyaya
Sep 1st 2009
Leadership Insights from MacbethVery simply Macbeth overreached himself. His level of competence was as the second most powerful man. This is where he peaked and would have surely been a great success as King Duncan’s next in command, quite like George Patton who was, in the opinion of his senior, the world’s best subordinate. Compared with Claudius (from Hamlet, featured in the July-August issue) -- Macbeth has alienated everybody. Cladius, on the other hand, has alienated none. A... Read more »
Revisiting Performance Assessment
By Aquil Busrai
Jul 1st 2009
Lost opportunities, demotivated workforce, silent surrender to mediocrity – all outcomes of ineffective performance management in an organization. And that too in an annual ritual that has often projected itself to be an ideal way of assessing contribution and in many cases, determine the reward associated with that contribution.The annual performance appraisal has outlived its utility in more ways than one. With many options available to workforce today, many employees adopt a line of l... Read more »
Leadership Insights from Shakespeare - Hamlet
By Rajeshwar Upadhyaya
Jul 1st 2009
It is a curious fact that Hamlet is the most known character after Jesus Christ. There is something in the character of Hamlet and his actions that resonates with mankind. There is something in the dynamics of that play that resonates with the ebb and flow of life itself. Failure. Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear itself. Fear of consequences and at the center of it all is a poetic apathy. Hamlet is too aware of the larger picture. And the larger picture paralyzes him. In corporate life t... Read more »
Leadership Insights From Shakespeare - Julius Cesar
By Rajeshwar Upadhyaya
May 4th 2009
This is the first part of our series on Leadership insights from Shakespeare The following is a series of articles on deriving leadership and management insights from the works of William Shakespeare, mainly the plays. Four tragedies will become the basis of exploring the psychology of leadership and executive failure. We will explore Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear as tragic characters. Leaders fail for a variety of psychological and psychosocial reasons – a v... Read more »
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