DailyPost 686 THE TOP PERFORMERS / ACHIEVERS? Unravelling the key to be a great performers has been an area of research for quite some time. That might open the vistas of large scale development of top performers. The conclusion of the book “TALENT is Overrated,” by Geoff Colvin, tries to make this enigma more understandable. […]
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DailyPost 681 HUMAN NETWORK A long standing research at Harvard University showed that way beyond success and money, the robust social relationships if created & maintained gave the maximum happiness in life. Cisco had a Human Network campaign. With machines getting into human operations rather successfully the reverse logic was also propagated, that professional work
DailyPost 674 TO BE OR NOT TO BE Hard work, perseverance, focus & passion have been flaunted around as the behavioural traits which helps achieve a goal. Goal is a one time achievement and is treated as an end itself. Expertise and more so world class expertise, doesn’t seem to be the aspiration of even
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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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