Is my mind under my control?

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 […]

talent acquisition

Can we Interview?

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[…..]

leadership development

Do you have to be a good Actor to become a good Leader?

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.[…..]