April 12, 2015

Why Doesn’t Anyone Use The Enterprise Social Network

Organizations have bought the latest and the best Enterprise Social Platforms like Chatter, Yammer, SocialCast etc. The usage remains lukewarm to put it mildly. It is […]
March 14, 2015

PhD for B Schools – do we need them?

It is not the degree that matters but it's what the degree represents -- critical thinking, familiarity with generalizable frameworks, a sense of "where the field of study is" that the teacher needs to have.

December 24, 2014

Games Trainers Play

The whole thing happened in a matter of seconds. We were all stunned and immobilized by fear. The professor then asked students to write down their own version of eye-witness accounts of the incident.

December 12, 2014

Industrial Relations Skills – The Next Shortage

It is funny how our view of what it takes to succeed changes over time – especially if you are at a B- School. In the pre-liberalization era, people who planned to pursue Human Resources would start their career on the shop floor. The job interviews would inevitably focus on testing the students on their depth of knowledge in labour laws. Trade Union leaders like Datta Samant would hit magazine covers as often as the movie stars – even if it was for the wrong reasons.

November 12, 2014

The CEO as the Chief Talent Officer

Look at all the places that live and die by sheer talent – Bollywood, the cricket teams, the advertising fraternity and even publishing – no one has a Chief Talent Officer. So do we really need one of these fancy titles in the workplace? If it really mattered wouldn’t these places have one? How do you explain this?

October 17, 2014

The Teresa Amabile Interview

Originally educated as a chemist, Professor Teresa Amabile received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people […]
September 10, 2014

Talent Migration: What can Organizations Learn from Governments

The annual migration of wildebeest and zebras is one of the most fascinating sights in Africa. Every year one-and-a-half million wildebeest and 300,000 zebras undertake the […]