tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77396068536970046662012-02-16T08:10:06.107-08:00This blog is not about human resources. It is about people - their motivations, their triumphs and tragedies and failings within and outside the organisational context. Just Human... Not Resources...Shahanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16884734656972792765noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739606853697004666.post-71512057689455462072009-05-11T00:51:00.000-07:002009-05-13T18:51:33.314-07:00

1. Data is a slave to its user2. No one is a great leader everyday. Leadership is a choice that a person has to make everyday.3. A leader who is visionary and inspiring in one situation may be absolutely ineffective in another.4. Ego is very expensive for an organization5. People ‘do’ less than 20% of their talk-quotient.6. When judging your own performance, it always seems like you have moved

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Really???????Is that a term?Sometimes I feel like a kid in a candy store with a crazy pick of self-serving terms coined by genius wordsmiths that give it a legitimacy and power beyond anything it should ever be allowed to command! Wow… anecdotal evidence …. Really? Meaning that I can record one instance of the person in a not so positive light and hold it against him for the rest of his life????

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On an especially mind-numbing day at work… I found my new muse. I came across a training company’s website that offered a variety of programs that were ‘going to change your life’, ‘help you realize your dreams’, ‘give you the edge that would leapfrog your career’… on the whole.. almost everything, short of rewriting your DNA! They were going to achieve all this and more by showing you some

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Thank God the coin has 2 sides. There is some divine logic and poetic justice in this fact. It gives the impression that somewhere in universe there is a delicate balance – there is multi-dimensionality, as against polarity. That alone is enough to make me happy… confused… but happy.I like the fact that there are multiple explanations and alternatives for everything. Human beings have too much

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Recently I had a very interesting and rather amusing encounter that was so moving that I just had to write about it!Like normal people I tend to enjoy my Sundays and guard them rather zealously against invasion by the ‘weekend warriors’. Recently I was approached by a couple of HR professionals who wanted some very simple info from me regarding the business unit I work with. The info required was

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Imagine this:The venue : Acclaimed painter, MF Husain’s, bungalow in Bangalore, India. A beautiful large space with an inbuilt stage and surrounded by works of art that transform the space from the ordinary to the magical.The actors : The Tangents – the only all-women Playback theatre group in IndiaThe audience: 40 women from different walks of life – professionals toiling in the corporate world,

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My brush with ‘the power of ambition’ – a personal experienceThis is a story of how ‘ambition’ transformed an ordinary business unit, stuck in the rut of its own limitations and its industry’s limitations into a powerhouse of achievement.Well.. let me start at the beginning. This particular business unit is the parent division of a large IT company, but it operates in the FMCG space. The FMCG

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Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 in a thatched hut with no electricity or running water in the village of Mvezo in the black homeland of Transkei. Rolihlahla means ‘troublemaker’. A teacher tacked on the name Nelson, perhaps thinking it less menacing. When he was 12, Mandela’s father died, and he left the family to become ward of the Paramount chief of the Tembu tribe. He attended a missionary

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I have been wanting to write a book for a decade now. I had no idea what it was going to be about, but I knew I was going to do it… And then a year passed, and then 2 and soon a decade had gone by, and I hadn’t even started...Have you ever wondered why there are so many unfulfilled dreams in the world? Is it because we are afraid of what will happen if they actually come true? We dream… it is the

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CRUCIBLES OF LEADERSHIP - Trial-by-FireGrowing up, Harry Truman never thought of himself as a leader, nor did anyone else. With “eyeglasses thick as the bottom of a coke bottle”, writes historian David McCullough, Truman couldn’t try out for school sports and mostly stayed at home, working the farm, reading, or playing the piano. Friends thought he was a sissy, and so did he. When he graduated

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMISTTELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.Life is real ! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end

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The InvitationBy Oriah Mountain DreamerIt doesn't interest me what you do for a living.I want to know what you ache for,And if you dare to dream of meetingYour heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are.I want to know if you will risk looking like a foolFor love, for your dreams,For the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.I want to know

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Corporate life is a great teacher. And the best learning is from the people around you. I plead guilty to being ‘a behaviour junkie’, i.e; I am amazed by, perplexed and fascinated by the people around me.Well, a while back, an interesting incident peaked my interest. I was walking along, minding my business when I heard voices. A person was telling his manager ‘I received an offer from our

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A small confession before I begin my sordid tale… I am a Human Resources professional, have been coaching managers on teaming, leadership, effective management and such else, since I can remember. So when I took on the mantle of a manager for a highly motivated, ambitious, driven and intelligent team of management graduates with experience ranging from 3-6 years, more than a few years back, I

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Leadership Series - a snapshot of defining works on leadershipLives of great men all remind usTo make our lives sublimeAnd leaving, leave behind us,Footprints on the sands of time…Leadership has been an existential issue in the world right from its birth and will continue to be one till the end of the world.It’s a concept that is quite difficult to deconstruct. There are probably as many theories

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