DailyPost 108 WITH EMOTIONS WE COME & WITH EMOTIONS WE GO Barrack Obama made his final emotional assault on the American public and the world, in his farewell speech, with his trademark flair, finesse and finality, in the same way as he began his presidential career. The interregnum cannot be treated as bright and certainly […]
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DailyPost 106 FUNCTIONS ALL, EVENTS NONE! When life is reduced to functions, the analogy worth remembering is one of Indian roads humps with roads in between pockmarked with holes. Organisations have started finding the ultimate solace in its success, the goals, the accomplishments and impact they feel is no consequence. Rural India and urban as
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DailyPost 105 EVENT / Management Events are milestones is our existence or achievements which we cherish. An eventful life is a worthwhile life and it always has a positive and well meaning connotation. An event of life has an inherent value notwithstanding the celebration or lack of it, associated with it. The inherent vitality of
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DailyPost 104 Perception Management Perceptions are as old as human beings but managing the perceptions of who matter or of the people at large as a skill, seems to have been born, not more than a half a century back. It’s birth can be fixed somewhere around the Vietnam war and got concretized as a
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DailyPost 100 INTEGRAL VISION Integral Vision has been touted as a soft skill which is most the critical of soft skills for leaders handling conflict. This is the essence to understanding a situation ridden with conflicting claims with no easy solution in sight. With complexity increasing in all issues leaders handle today, given the nature
DailyPost 93 A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS TECHNOLOGY Sirji, what an idea for sure did not generate any ideas; what it did for the business prospects of the company, I am not sure of. Sometimes, the setting & locale provides the serenity, calm, poise and energy for fresh thinking. Infosys, Mysore fits perfectly into this definition.
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DailyPost 92 SHARED VISION Visions and visionaries have ruled out minds and even our psyche for quite sometime now. It’s been accepted that the journey is not even worth taking if we don’t have a vision. Vision thus is tantamount to a blueprint and beyond which only the leader & visionary can really understand. He
DailyPost 88 OPTIMIZED! This is the result everyone is trying to achieve. Optimum, cost benefit, per unit cost, ROI, value add, efficiency, productivity are all manifestations of the same process; to make the best out of quantified effort and the additions of value in terms of money corresponding to every single penny spend. This has
DailyPost 86 IN SEARCH OF TALENT Searching talent, seemingly conspicuous is actually a discerning art, both empirical and objective, not matured in this country either at level of family, society, organisations or at the governmental level. It’s commonplace in social discussions that talent was not known or recognised at a young age and so got
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DailyPost 85 360 DEGREES RESPONSIBILITY There is an ongoing battle between between peers and between subordinates and supervisors as to what does not fall under their charter of duties and for what the professional should not be held responsible of. Taking end to end responsibility is an anathema to which every supervisor has to respond
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DailyPost 84 LEADING THROUGH CONFLICT As the world grows smaller, the opportunities for conflicts multiply. Mark Gerzon opines that leaders have failed to rise to this challenge. Mediation as concept and practice has become the central theme of today’s leadership theory. The quality of mediation is directly proportional to the skills of the mediator. 9/11
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