DailyPost 639 TALENT REVISITED! Talent has over generations and centuries become mythical to our existence. It has become synonymous to performance to the extent that the vast majority finds solace in using it as an alibi for being average performers. Geoff Colvin in his book titled Talent states that it is overrated as part of […]
DailyPost 637 PROFESSIONALLY CONFUSED! With the contradictions, paradoxes, ironies so prevalent in many aspects of our existence, one is forced to believe that we are professionally confused. Confusion is professionally thought out. It would be unbelievable to attribute all this either to ignorance or even fatalism at the other extreme. This confusion is conspicuous all
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DailyPost 628 REAL PREPARATION From the regular education to training for the jobs required and certifications & training mandated to be gone through, do we get into the modalities of preparation needed to do a fulfilling job? The job is as made straight jacketed as it can be & the best thing is to do
DailyPost 624 THE DEMISE OF THE EXPERT? Big Data & it’s Analytics is changing the world. The biggest impact certainly is that data driven decisions as it stands, can augment or overrule human judgement. Ian Ayers in his book Super Crunchers says that statistical analyses forces to reconsider human instincts. This becomes even more essential
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DailyPost 622 EXPERTISE ALWAYS DELIVERS Experts may not, expertise always does. In the make believe world created today, one is forced to make a distinction. Get into any area and you find the area overburdened with experts. The quantum of their output individually or collectively does not add up to their self created stature. Exceptional
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DailyPost 620 B SCHOOLS CONUNDRUM- WHO WANTS TO CHANGE? While we lament the quality of management education in this country, but we do a precious little to improve it. Sometimes, we get a feeling that none of the stakeholders want to change yet expect positive change to happen. That cannot be the change trajectory. There
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DailyPost 619 FUTURE OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION The future of management education hangs in a precarious balance with hundreds of Business Schools closing education down. With around 3500 business schools & 3,00,000 students, this Resource should have been the harbinger of real change, building on innovative management models & disruptive technology. Instead of quality management Human
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DailyPost 589 EDUCATION – BASE DELIVERABLES A random survey can throw up what percentage of people find themselves handicapped for reasons of lack of a reading habit or good writing skills or ability to communicate. Leaving aside the degrees gathered, the basic goal of educational system is to make you a voracious reader, an erudite
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DailyPost 571 OBJECTIVITY BY FORCE We live an age of Post Truth, Fake News, undefined Stress, opinions camouflaged as facts & all around meticulously calibrated credibility. A recent phenomenon. There were nothing but facts, good or bad, performance or no performance, validation or otherwise; all learned by convention & practiced. Then can came the juggernaut
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DailyPost 563 KNOWLEDGE BY DEFAULT Though we wouldn’t have thought of the concept of Knowledge by Default, most of us gain confidence by this very mindset. Our default positioning in life, we extrapolate to the knowledge arena as well and we flaunt of it, though we may gain little out of it and at times
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DailyPost 558 LEARNING INDIVIDUAL Learning Organisations are discussed in lots of forums these days. Learning Organisation can safely be broken down to Learning Individuals. In simple terms it means that the organisation has a knowledge repository & training mechanism to update the knowledge & skills of personnel working, in tune with changing requirements & higher
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