Simplicity @ the other side of Complexity

Career planning is one of the most interesting rituals in HR. But before we come to career planning let us look at the myth of Sisyphus. We ...

The incident that triggered the thought process behind this post happened when my son was about 3 years old. This was the time when he was t...

How do we build a high performance organization? There are many 'answers' to this question. There has to be many answers (or at leas...

There is a huge amount of literature on the characteristics of a good leader. What is not so certain is whether this extensive body of knowl...

"Employee engagement" is one of the popular concepts in HR these days. Many organizations have launched new initiatives to improve...

Ravindra requested me to comment on his new book ( Give me back my guitar ). This book focuses on 'personal energy management' (wh...

I have been doing some sort of an informal survey. It involved getting in touch with some people (most of them with more than 10 years of e...

This post is about a question that has been in my mind for the last few years. The issue is something like this: After your MBA in HR (espec...

This post was triggered by a comment on one of my previous posts (see making problems disappear ). The comment also contained a request that...

This is the second one in the series of blog posts that look at how some very valid research findings ('truths') tend to get misinte...