Business
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Two kinds of teachers
The spiritual and the material, the wider perspective and the immediate focus.
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How Edicts Helped Ashoka
How did the king establish his power in his absence? He needed to establish monuments, pillars with his symbol: the lion, leaving no one in doubt about who was in charge. And then, putting across edicts stating clearly his goals…
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Recruitment Dilemma
We cannot measure Narayana, what a person is. We can only measure Narayani, what a person has, his experience and qualifications. We hope to figure out the Narayana side during interview process. But that remains highly subjective.
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A leader’s gaze
What happens when they see and what happens when they don’t see. What happens to that which they see. And what happens on how they see.
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Organizations need scapegoats to take responsibility for failures
For all talk of measurability and rationality, modern corporations make great use of scapegoats.
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Why corporate CEOs often resist talent management
Like parents who feel their children are not as good as them, most leaders feel their successors are not as good as them.
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For the entrepreneur, wealth, fame and size don’t come cheap
Companies are trying hard to shed this image and becoming polis through processes, technology and the idea of the institution, where all people are equal and where processes and systems ensure work gets done.
