Change what you can and manage what you cannot. This is a timeless piece of wisdom someone has left behind for us. Taking charge Many of us rue what they do not have control over. This mindset does not take us far other than wasting our time and energy. Rather, we have to think of […]

Today’s businesses are dynamic; they live amidst uncertainties and high levels of competition. They need their employees and partners to be agile to address the stated as well as the latent needs of the customers. At the same time, they have to discover new segments and virgin territories altogether. It is quite a challenge to […]

Organisations across the world have been witnessing a decline in employee retention rates for a long time barring the period when the pandemic gripped the world. This trend may vary in proportion across regions, industry sectors and the age profile of the employees, but it is ubiquitous. Talent management has emerged as one of the […]

Edward de Bono, the originator of lateral thinking as an idea has said that companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die and those focused on value creation will thrive. Creating a positive effect for customers Someone buys or takes food to satiate one’s hunger; sometimes we take food to give company to someone […]

It is not rare to hear passionate comments fly across boardrooms and strategy offsites. Organisations and their leaders study the internal and external environments, come up with new ideas and involve their teams in formulating new strategies. Many of them spend substantial time and effort to detail the plans, roll them out and of course, […]

Someone said wisely, “We do not have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Drops of water gather in a pitcher to fill it; small savings made each day with discipline create a sizeable corpus. Similarly, leaders […]

Our world is interesting now with an unforeseen pace of change happening around us. Most of the time, we are at the receiving end and do our best to respond. Smart and wise people anticipate the change, make quick moves and win a large share of the pie. This behaviour does not come naturally to […]

Human Resources is often seen as the department within a company that is responsible for employee relations, payroll, and other administrative tasks. The human resources department can improve internal business communication in a number of ways: 1. Establish Clear Communication Channels and Protocols The first step to improving communication within your company is to establish […]

Diversity is a fundamental characteristic of mother nature that holds all of us together. Anything natural that we see around us is unique and unequal. We see limbs in the human body as a pair such as the eyes, hands and legs; each of these limbs though in a pair is different from the other […]

Water wheels were in use some 2000 years ago and human civilisation made rapid progress in the form of scientific progress. Gas, coal and oil have taken the centre stage until the early 2000s when most of us have accepted global warming as a reality and the need to shift to a sustainable source of […]

Internet and the world wide web have been evolving. When it started, people and businesses could provide information about themselves and exchange information. Over time, there have been many improvements and thus, we can interact with people and businesses, carry out business transactions and automate a whole lot of things in our lives. Web3 is […]

The Great Resignation saw 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in Aug 2021 and there were 10.4 million open jobs by the end of Aug 2021. Did most of them quit because of their managers? Not really! There are many other significant factors and we must invest efforts to address those as much as we […]