April 20, 2025
Tim Harford wrote about this in the FT Magazine of 19th April 2025. In 1978, the crew of a dredger found a chain at the bottom […]
April 13, 2025
If a founder believes that HR is for administrative tasks, please gift him/her this book Let me say it upfront—People-Powered Startups by Saurabh Nigam is a […]
April 12, 2025
No Stories = Boring Workplace No Stories? Boring Workplace! How to Spark Storytelling at Work Let me ask you something: When was the last time you […]
March 18, 2025
When I specialized in HR, I was told that HR is meant to be the voice of the employee. Today in most organizations, HR is not […]
April 3, 2024
If HR would agree that workplaces have to be designed for irrational humans who have biases and make decisions from their heart and not their head, we could make workplaces psychologically rewarding.
November 28, 2021
Technology must be viewed as a means to simplify work rather than the employee looking at it as yet another piece of work that gets added.
June 24, 2021
When we think of building a brand, we think of a logo and color and the typical font. Branding is not only visual. It is also all about sound. Try watching a horror film without the sound and you will know how much of your movie experience is created by the sound. Live audio is creating that possibility. Mentza and Clubhouse have become spots for recruiters to find talent. What’s next?
April 24, 2021
In this book Rory Sutherland builds a case for magic and alchemy. In science, everything has one correct answer. Human behavior and choices are guided by context. Pain killers are more effective when they are effective. Savlon launched an antiseptic liquid that did not “burn” like their competitor Dettol. The consumer complained that Savlon was ineffective because there was no burning sensation. Read my review about Alchemy - a book I really enjoyed.
January 20, 2021
We are like everyone in some respects. We are like a handful of people in some matters. We are like no one else in some matters. […]