A decade or so ago, multi-tasking was a much revered skill. People would flash it in their resumes, coffee corners would resound with whispers of the star who could do many things at the same time and supervisors would put that up as a skill to acquire proficiency in as you made your way up…
A few months ago having travelled to attend a conference meet in Pune, I was pleasantly surprised to meet a colleague and a respected leader at the breakfast table. We got talking about various things and the topic drifted to leadership traits when he reminisced about an exercise from long ago where everyone had to…
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As we made our way slowly through one of chennai’s traffic-infested “Information Technology” zones, a friend observed that IT was probably the one industry where experience was more of a handicap than a boon. Companies increasingly wanted smart programmers at lowered costs, and middle managers were losing out. On reflection, I think we ought to…
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Michael Jackson’s demise seems to be what the world is penning, talking, reading and watching today. Rightly so – an icon and a legend deserves this kind of adulation for sure. For many of us in India – especially those from the more rural parts “English music” translates as “Michael Jackson” – period…. Here’s a…
Read more Adieu Michael Jackson….and thank you to other greats