DailyPost 272 THE LID IS OFF – The Washington Post The Washington Post has taken off the lid on the vaguely known saga of the Russians trying to manipulate the American election process propelled by a killing desire to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s ascendency to Presidency. Though the news has been making rounds for quite […]
DailyPost 271 PRACTITIONERS ALL, PRACTISING NONE? All of us love to be called practitioners rather than arm chair theoreticians. The reality is, we are getting closer to the theoretician, that too not the best ones. A practitioner ought to be a professional & vice versa. The professional has two basic traits; one he works
DailyPost 270 ELEVATE THE LANGUAGE Elevate the language to a level where it can be used for all purposes & with the same effectiveness & see the change. If the language does not deliver, it’s usage will remain limited, is a foregone conclusion. Any level of jingoism is not going to improve matters. Undeniably,
DailyPost 269 “ACCIDENTALLY LEFT EXPOSED” The litany of woes of Cyber Security does not seem to end. The breach & the vulnerability, both are increasing at an exponential pace, leaving us to fend for ourselves. Or the other way round, we see are perpetually in the vulnerability mode, till we are breached. The new
DailyPost 268 BUSINESS CASE STUDIES When textbooks started failing to deliver the content & its consequent assimilation, business case studies emerged into the teaching pedagogy as a tool to fill up the well known gap & add effective assimilation to learning. Did it really make the proposed difference? It became another textbook material. The
DailyPost 267 WHO IS AN EXPERT? How the position of an expert gets attached to a professional is still not known but as and when it happens you seem to have arrived in life. An aura get attached to you & you go beyond the ordinary. Finality, seems to the trademark of the expert.
DailyPost 266 COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS From being a financial concept, the cost benefit analysis has finally permeated all aspects of our life & seems to have become a parameter in most of our decision making process. It’s supposed to be objective & is destined to deliver results over & over again. The only issue
DailyPost 265 NEGATIVITY BIAS While we all talk of positivity in life, our actions suggest to the contrary. With electronic, print, social media, family & friends generally feeding us with negativity on a daily basis, most of us seem to be stuck up in a mindset, which has been aptly termed as Negativity Bias.
DailyPost 264 SELF CERTIFICATION The malaise of self certification is a global phenomenon or otherwise, I am not aware but it has reached gigantic proportions in this county. Individuals, communities & organisations; private & otherwise, indulge in this with a flourish. These statements are made with finality where disagreements are inconsequential, is the mindset
DailyPost 263 A GULLIBLE SOCIETY The society & the electorate of the nation has been praised over & over again for their maturity for their capability to change regimes & similar has been case in large number of democratic societies the world. The Trumped electoral & onward presidential journey is laid before the world to
DailyPost 262 SHARED VISION Tonnes of management literature exists about Vision & the Visionaries. Great vision has rarely yielded to equally great results. Vision has somehow remained aloof from the execution infrastructure, which is in place; delivering day to day results but being unable to transcend to deliver the extraordinary i.e. exemplary execution of
