Simplicity @ the other side of Complexity

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

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Influence of 'early career experiences'

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What has been the impact of your 'early-career experiences' on you? For the purpose of this discussion, let us define 'early-car...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

In praise of HR generalists

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Let me begin by saying that I am a specialist - I am in a specialist role now (in Learning and OD) and I have spent most of my career so far...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Job and identity

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Recently, I left the job that I had been doing for the past three years and took up a different type of job with another organization. I als...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Passion for work and anasakti

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" People here are not passionate about their work. If you ask them to do something more, they start speaking about their deliverables ,...
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Mysteries of 'being a good team player'

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"My team is not happy with me. They have told me that I am not a good team player", said the young engineer. The latter part of hi...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Why pigs have wings (Importance of differentiation in people management)

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The more interesting part of the title comes from 'Through the Looking -Glass' (by Lewis Carroll). The other (related !) part - impo...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Paradox of 'HR Systems'

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"But I don't need HR systems", said the senior business manager. I had gone to this gentleman to seek his buy-in (and sponsors...
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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Of Ghosts, Blogs and Undigested karma

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This month, 'Simplicity at the other side of complexity' is completing one year. When I started this blog, I wasn't sure about h...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Of deep-specialists and jumping around

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This post is on one of my favorite topics : 'deep-specialist' roles in internal HR. Please see here (Specialist roles in internal HR...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Towards a philosophy of HR

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"HR is like gardening", said a senior HR professional when he was completely drunk. "We are not using any functional expertis...
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Prasad Kurian
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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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