Simplicity @ the other side of Complexity

Prasad Oommen Kurian's blog on Human Capital Managment and Organization Development

Monday, May 27, 2024

Of Espoused Competencies, Enacted Competencies and Janus-faced Leaders

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful!" We often talk about espoused values (professed/stated values of the organization), en...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Defense against the ‘Dark Arts’ of Job Evaluation: A Crash Course!

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Let me start with a confession. I have made a living out of job evaluation – both as an external consultant (who conducts job evaluation and...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Of leadership development and articulating the unarticulated

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It was Carl Jung who said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate". Somethi...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Of Leadership Development, Business Schools and Consulting Firms

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“Our professors bring in the latest academic research to the program delivery. Based on their deep understanding of the topic, they can faci...
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Friday, June 9, 2023

Selling ice to Eskimos? - Leadership development in very successful organizations

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How do we sell leadership development solutions to an organization that has been very successful without having invested in leadership devel...
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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Of Atlas, Munchausen and the pursuit of relevance at the workplace

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“I create problems, and then I solve them. That is my style!”, declared the department head smugly. I heard this statement a long time ago...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Of writing, intellectual DNA and immortality

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This post was triggered by the interaction I have had with friend of mine based on the article he had written on why we want to be ‘liked’ a...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Of learning and legitimacy

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Almost all the organizations say that they ‘ value ’ learning. Some of them even claim to be a ‘ learning organization ’.  The trouble start...
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Sunday, June 5, 2022

The many lives of capability building programs

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Technically speaking, ‘capability building programs’ are meant to do exactly that – to build the targeted capabilities. However, after spend...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Do the CEOs get the CHROs they deserve?

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“CEOs get the CHROs they deserve!”, said the Senior HR leader when he was highly frustrated. This was my seventh ‘encounter’ with this gentl...
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Life at the intersection of theory and practice. Exploring the paradoxes and possibilities in Human Resources, Organization Development and Personal Effectiveness - using stories, myths and concepts from a wide range of fields
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