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A TV anchor once asked Martina Navratilova, “How do you maintain your focus and manage to keep playing, even at the age of 43?” Her suave response was, “The ball doesn’t know how old I am”. In his excellent book, “Still Power”, Sports Psychologist Garret Kramer says that a key factor to performing well in […]

I recall a meeting with my HR team in my last organization where we were discussing on quality of talent that our organization was able to attract. After some deliberations on some of the concerns related to availability of talent, locational concerns and expectations of the good talent etc., the discussions steered towards the ability […]

Sometime during 1990, while I was working with Honda, while taking one of our morning walkthroughs in the plant, my Plant Head, Mr. R S Bidesi, told me: “Sandip, there are 550* eyes watching you all the time, whatever you do or chose not to do – is getting noticed and registered in their minds. […]

I recall having written an article on RRM – that’s Robotics Resources Management replacing HRM in next few years. This article raised certain apprehensions about the future of Human Resource Management in general and Human Resource Managers in particular. Is the shift from relying on human beings to rely on Machines or Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]

Leadership Development – The Missing Links If there was only one factor that needs to be made responsible for the success or failure of any organisation, it is arguably the quality of leadership in the organisation. Organisations have always needed leaders who are good at recognizing emerging challenges and taking appropriate actions to mitigate those. […]

Published on June 7, 2018 My Case Analysis that was published in Business Manager – June’18 issue Case Study Power Pack Corporation is a MNC doing its business of electric generation equipment and engines in India. They have acquired one manufacturing facility in Maharashtra and produced indigenous products to cater to the needs of Indian […]

Published on April 27, 2018 Reams and reams have been written to find out ways and means to make the employee creative. Being creative, innovative, thinking out of the box…., etc…, adjectives can change, but the essence is to ensure continuous progress and remaining or becoming competitive. Ahead of the race, so as to say. […]

Published on April 3, 2018 Few years back, as a part of my office work, I visited Infosys – Mysore campus. It was an experience of a lifetime to say the least. The campus, nicknamed “Heaven on Earth” or “A Paradise” is an epitome of the real infrastructure art. Mr. Narayana Murthy had described the […]

Published on June 13, 2017 Majority of the corporates continue to believe in the PMS and get onto setting the KRAs for their management staff. One of the critical issue that often challenges the HR fraternity, is the inability of some of the people to quantify their KRAs. Is it really that difficult to measure […]

Published on April 29, 2017 It is quite common to come across Managers, who would often comment, “Give me talented people and I can do wonders!” Or “The competencies of my subordinates need serious improvement.” While venting out their frustrations, they are also perhaps admitting in a way, their inabilities to go beyond their normal efforts […]

Published on June 29, 2016 It is not a brainer that any progressive organisation can’t afford to have bad hires. However it is also a known fact that companies do hire misfits and invariably ask people to go during or after the first 6 months, usually the probationary period. In an article that appeared in […]

Published on May 30, 2016 The changes in the workplace are happening at a faster pace than we ever envisaged & HR has found itself to be at the centre of all this. In order to understand what is happening and how it is affecting the HR function, let’s examine some of the recent trends. […]

Published on May 9, 2016 Contrary to some of my HR friend’s expectations, this is not an acronym for KRA (Key Results Area) but this is a question that some of the CEOs might have for their HR people. Hopefully none of you are in that list. HR has definitely come a long way in […]