May 20, 2022

Top 50 HR Influencers on Social Media 2021-22

“SHRM recognises digitally popular influencers annually. Influencers have been shortlisted for their exemplary contribution to refining HR, voicing their opinions, and looking at the bigger picture. This report takes on #ARM Worldwide’s point of view with more focused metrics and a nuanced understanding of how and what these HR influencers are delivering to their audience. It acknowledges influencer prominence and what we can expect to see in this domain in the future.”

September 21, 2020

Can culture be benchmarked?

I was once talking to the founder of a startup who wanted to build the culture of Google in his firm. He wanted to benchmark the ‘best practices’ of Google’s culture of innovation and that is how he implemented this policy in his 50-person startup. Every employee in that tiny startup had to work on a personal project. Two months later a few employees came to the founder and asked for permission to work from home so that they could work together undisturbed on a secret project they had come up with.

August 30, 2020

The First Big Career Transition

It is the first taste of discretionary power one experiences very early in career. It is the first taste of responsibility for the success of others beyond one’s own self. It is the first opportunity to help and coach others to scale up and reach the desired goals. The leader’s role is to help the team achieve synergy not just remain the sum total of everyone’s results. To do that, the person managing a team must juggle three perspectives: