On Leadership

Once, an assumption was that any leader was an industrial manager. He had to assemble a bunch of specialists, show them the ‘vision’, tell them what they have to do and then ‘manage them by objectives’.

Find the numbers. Show and use carrots and sticks on the ‘worker’.

…..my argument is – this is incorrect . Read the rest of the essay to find whether you agree. Read full story »

Clock Your Time In, Time Out With SMS

I heard that companies like Infosys have made it strict to have 9.25 hours per day clocked in the attendance system, or apply for leave. It seems the word “effectiveness” is almost forgotten! The news is, HourDoc.com introduced SMS technology for employees to clock in and out their timesheet by sending SMS from their cell phone linked to the HourDoc account. Read full story »

The Dreamed Pink Slips Have Arrived in Bangalore

Excerpts from an article by Saritha Rai at silicon.com
It looks like the global economic turmoil and the dramatic Wall Street meltdown is beginning to hit Bangalore.
The collapse of top US financial firms will cause a dramatic slowdown in hiring among outsourcing companies. The banking, financial services and insurance sectors account for 40 per cent of … Read full story »

Tata and Infosys Rank Among the Most Reputed Companies in the World

The Tata Group and Infosys Technologies, ranking 6th and 14th in the Global 200: The World’s Best Corporate Reputations compiled by US-based Reputation Institute. Tata and Infosys secured “excellent” Global Pulse scores of 82.84 and 81.18 respectively.
The list also includes other Indian companies like Maruti Suzuki (77th), State Bank of India (107th), Hindustan Lever (131st), … Read full story »

Role of Western Values in Contemporary Indian Society – N R N Murthy

This is the full text of the talk “Role of Western values in contemporary Indian society” delivered at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management on October 02, 2002 by N R Narayana Murthy. Today I went through the transcript of the speech. I am just copying the text directly from the source PDF into … Read full story »