July 10, 2025
Businesses are grappling with a talent paradox. Despite massive investments in learning and development, employee engagement remains stubbornly low. Training programs fail to stick, feedback sessions […]
June 5, 2025
The gaslit streets of Manhattan shivered with anticipation on that frostbitten New Year’s Eve in 1879. Inside Menlo Park’s laboratory, Thomas Edison prepared his moment. A […]
May 18, 2025
Where do you see yourself five years from now? It’s a confronting question. Especially in a world where AI writes emails, robots manage warehouses, and quantum […]
August 18, 2021
Citizenship is a funny thing. Most of us are born into it. Some choose to keep it. Some acquire it. Some are invited to take it. Some seek refuge and get it. There are many shades of citizenship. Ever since work moved to the cloud, the mobile phone has become more powerful than the passport.
December 27, 2020
The vaccine will be available. But not everyone will voluntarily get vaccinated. As part of my effort to make my ideas accessible to people with visual […]
September 4, 2020
The impact of these three forces pales in comparison to the impact of Covid-19 in the job market. Millions of people have lost their jobs. People realize that their business card can no longer borrow the brand value of their employer. Even if the employer provides outplacement services (like RiseSmart) to the impacted employee, without a strong personal brand, the person is just another resume in the pile. Without a personal brand, an individual gets lost among the 650 million people on LinkedIn.
June 17, 2020
With all the layoffs happening worldwide, employers must help employees find their next opportunity. Appointing an outplacement firm to help with career transition and job placement. An outplacement firm can help with resume writing, confidence-building, interview coaching and smoothens the transition. Outplacements are the way to go. Airbnb tied up with a top notch outplacement firm RiseSmart .
June 2, 2020
Do you hate selling your ideas through video calls? All of us now run meetings, give presentations and even sell ideas through video-conferences. People simply take whatever they would have done in person and present it through the camera. Teachers across the world are offering their classes online. That experience of learning online through videos is so bad that several students plan to defer their admission to next year when they can attend classes in person.
March 21, 2020
I asked a friend who creates video blogs and hence is a vlogger. Many of us now need to use video calling to stay connected to work. Here is what he said, "Who knows video calling better than a vlogger? They use their videos to capture the attention of millions of viewers. When you are video calling your colleagues, you are using the same medium of the video. It is the new medium you are using to share your ideas. It is your new medium to influence the world. So think like a vlogger."