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 »

What Comes to Your Mind When You Hear ‘Social Service’?

Many months ago, I got an opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on ‘Creating Social Awareness among students’. The participants were teachers from various schools in Trivandrum city. Except for one, all teachers were vociferous about how they create social awareness among their students. I guess the silent teacher was a victim of an unplanned … Read full story »

Organization Model in Indian IT Service Companies

Guest post by Indu
I currently work for a large Indian IT services company which follows a ‘role based organization model‘ for human resource management. The term now used in the industry is ‘talent management‘ since that sounds more executive.
I was happy to participate in a recent HR (Human Resources) Department survey on the topic.  I … 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 »

Sreyas & Preyas Principle in Life and Management

I was on the look out for a meaningful Sanskrit or Malayalam name for an organization. One of my best friend suggested the name Sreyas. By hearing the word itself for the first time, I liked it. Really meaningful word. BTW, Sreyas also contains sri or sree in it!
In common language, Sreyas (or Shreyas) means … Read full story »