Young, ambitious, upwardly mobile and professional – without giving in to the marketing definitions of yuppies and yumps and what have you – we still can admit that this is a socially defined association often stronger than cultural, racial, gender or geographic affiliations. Life stages are often so much more uniting than we give them …
An essay on the increasingly popular phenomenon of simultaneous multiple careers Deny it all you like, but most of us lead multiple lives. Not in the schizophrenic way, but in the “One person – Many interests” kind of way. Gone are the days in which one person could be slotted into one career – the …
Isn’t it about time we established an Indian Institute of politics? Any executive running a publicly traded business would have either formal training that equips him for the job or years of apprenticeship working at various levels in the company or long experience in the industry or in many cases, all the three above. But …
In my endless moving watching spree, today I watched an exemplary movie from the sixties: Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. My favourite scene in the movie is when the Russian ambassador to the US acknowledges that they had indeed made a doomsday machine and that the announcement was …
“Average managers play checkers, while great managers play chess.” – Marcus Buckingham. (“What Great Managers Do“, Harvard Business Review, Apr05) Buckingham goes on to explain that in checkers the pieces are uniform and interchangeable. While in chess, each piece is unique (more or less) and the player who wins is the one who can tap …
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the ones I should, and the wisdom to know the difference” These were the opening lines of the music CD i was playing at work today. My neighbour at work keeps me well supplied with good music, but I …