Question- How many narcissists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer- One, to hold the bulb still while the world revolves around him. Psychology is not a joke, but folks who buy snake oil prescriptions ( read management tools) without critical inquiry convert it into one. The internet and HR technology have […]
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Too often companies ignore an internal candidate because they know too much about him or her and hire an external candidate because they know too little!
Information Asymmetry and Decision Making in Hiring & Succession Planning. Read More »
Whenever the stock market is on a bull run, every investing expert appears to be a genius and every strategy a winner — but when the bubble bursts, the ones left standing are the “real experts,” or the lucky ones.
The same logic holds for the talent function. The IT sector has been on an extended bull run for the last 20 years; in fact, the COVID pandemic gave it a boost, with the world hailing a new paradigm of digitization and work from home. Easy capital spawned a startup frenzy, with fintech, B2C e-commerce, and SaaS firms scaling up — and the talent function was at the core of this growth:
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Talent Trends in 2026 for the Indian Technology Sector Welcome to my yearly analysis of talent trends in the Indian Technology sector 2026 promises to be exciting- When will the AI bubble burst ? & if it does , – how does it impact the Indian IT sector, or startups or the stock market in
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The dark knight- How the talent function can rescue the IT Services industry The Indian IT industry is at the crossroads – and the options are survival, slow decline , revival & renewal. I believe the HR function can spearhead the renewal of IT services and lead the industry out of its current rut; And
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Spoiler- This is not an AI centric post 4 Forces redefining the talent function Force 1- Software & Technology has been eating jobs and with AI , the appetite will be insatiable Force 2- Data driven Mathematical Corporation Force 3- Productivity & Performance will tend towards the Power Curve Force 4- The Talent Cloud will become
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2024 is going to be an exciting year! . Our forecast looks at technology talent in IT Services GCC’s Product /SAAS E-Commerce/Fintech Spoiler alert. Generative AI is going to impact , but its not going to be a Tsunami as predicted by consultants trying to surf the latest hype cycle IT Services In the first
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You see in this world , there’s 2 kinds of people , my friend, those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. Clint Eastwood. The Good , the Bad & the Ugly. Tweet The Vanished About 12-15 years back there were small shops on every corner that would set up a basic website
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Talent Market Predictions We segment the Indian Talent Market into 5 different sub- markets – Services, Captives, FAANG, Product/SAAS, E-Commerce/Fintech Services Dec 22 ended with the Big 4- HCL, TCS, Wipro & Infosys recording a net addition of 1,940 employees.-the lowest in 11 Quarters. Variable pay will be reduced drastically & we expect middle management
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A Moneycontrol artictle on 30 May caused the usual 3 day outrage and hyperventilating when it declared that – “IT CEO pay shot up 835% in a decade while fresher’s salary grew 45%” . Now that the din has died down- I have tried to dig deeper. Summary of the Moneycontrol article Ratio of pay between
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Why Employer Branding As we transition into a knowledge economy , the war for talent is getting more intense Automation, Digital tools and AI will further make it a winner takes all market- with the right talent being the only competitive advantage The war for talent will be fought at many fronts- culture, organisation design,
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Last year I summarised the work from home conundrum in terms of research from – Sociology, Economics, Anthropology and Behavioural Science. It generated a lot of interest and requests for practical applications to do Hybrid / Remote right- here are a few best practices and policies. If you want to see the previous article- the
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If I take a MBTI test before Coffee – I am an ISFP and post that I mellow down to a warm INTJ- and that is what is wrong with the MBTI. MBTI fails the basic criterion of Statistical Reliability- i.e. A psychometric test needs to produce the same result taken over a course of
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- Claremont Graduate University’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management Books Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning Professor
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Why Do New Executives Fail The failure rate of new Executives is approximately 50%, largely due to an inability to lead others (Hogan and Kaiser, 2005). On average, nearly 30% of Standard and Poor 500 CEOs are dismissed annually and the tenure average is approximately 5 years (The Conference Board, 2015). In a study done by Ulrike Malmendier, assistant professor of
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How do you decide on a an Assessment instrument . I would consider the following 5 factors. Productivity increase and the cost of assessment Competency Supply and the False Positive & False Negative Trade-off Validity Reliability Assessment Experience Productivity Increase and the the cost of Assessment The basis of Assessment is to differentiate between the
5 Factors to Evaluate an Assessment Instrument-Assessment 103. Read More »
The Triarchic model of Intelligence we discussed in Intelligence 101 can be linked to Performance Categories Task Performance- Directly linked to Analytical Intelligence or Problem solving- this is the easiest to check as it is a function of knowledge gained thru academics or experience. Contextual Performance is linked to Practical Intelligence , as it includes
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In early 1700’s a controversy shook the very foundations of science community in Europe- “Leibniz and Newton had independently developed a branch of mathematics called Calculus, which underlies most of modern physics. Although we now know that Newton discovered Calculus years before Leibniz, he published his work much later. A major row ensued over who
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When I was a kid , a popular advertisement on TV was an actor on realising how bright the new light-bulb works- says “ghar ke sab badal dalunga”- “Will change all bulbs at home”- Some ideas have a life-cycle like those bulbs . So when the pandemic started and we were forced to get into
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The problem with HR is People!!— or the fact that everyone has an opinion on it . So if you are a founder struggling with too much HR advice -Demand the following from your CHRO and HR Function- As Startups scale and mature -it has couple of points of inflection in Human Resource When hiring goes
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A well designed Succession planning program has an invigorating effect on Organisation Culture , reduces HiPo ( High Potential) attrition and helps the firm tide over unexpected brain drain . An outperforming Succession Planning program is a combination of the 5 pillars of Philosophy, Role Analysis , Performance Management, Training & Development and Reducing Information
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Its time for a feminist narrative to change corporate Culture in India . Gender diversity initiatives in most Indian corporates ( whether Indian or MNC’s) have been passive, copy international practices and usually not effective. Throwing policy at our massive cultural inertia is like trying to use a Maruti 800 to change the course of an on
Urgently Required- Feminists- vacancies in most Indian Corporates!! Read More »
Do you hire a CTO who has never written a software programme or or managed a data centre hands on ? Or someone who knows how the to define agile development but has never worked on a project which uses it ?
So why do we hire CHRO’s with such low expectations?
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Pedigree is the little blue pill for all corporate dysfunctions – From Market Share, to Innovation, Productivity or even Cultural integration- there is nothing this pill cannot solve. The efficacy of the pedigree cure is rarely questioned and so to end the year- I decided to put a counter argument .
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Variable pay or conditioning employees for a certain behaviour has the same mental pattern as an addicts puff- the dopamine rush that accompanies “each reward”- results in the addict craving more. The need for the dopamine rush-reduces risk perception and makes people take higher risks
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If you want to know what differentiates a true People Champion from the bosses lackey/ executioner , look at their battle scars. The Wonder Woman Fight Removes the God of war- aka The Exceptional Asshole from the organisation- The great performer who is invaluable to the Business/ functional leader and everyone is blindsided to the collateral damage
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The world of work as we know has ended, this is the lull before the storm – which will be an emotional roller coaster as businesses are reinvented, rightsized, closed , merged , acquired and bought out / aquahired …and more
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A well run HR function lays the foundation for not only the organisations current success; but a template for the future.
Fundamentals over Fads- Making a 2X HR Impact Read More »
How the Human Resource Function can save Banking
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Planned Obsolescence- How the Indian IT Services Industry ****** its middle management
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