What they should teach you in B School
While advising a B School on their HR curriculum, I recommended HR Analytics, Design Thinking, and <add your buzz word here>. But the turning point was when someone said -…
How do you make a beautiful slide?
Data Interpretation is one of the three sections of the CAT Exam - the entrance test for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management. Most MBAs are adept at making sense…
What is the area of a rectangle?
‘The area of a rectangle is it’s length times it’s breadth.’ This is all the explanation you get from a legendary Indian math reference book we all grew up studying.…
Which car do you drive?
Which car, fountain pen, watch, speakers, camera, computer or guitar do you use? Why do we care more for these, even though we know that it's where you go, what you do with…
Why do you dislike remote working?
Remote work is not a substitute of in-person work, but not for the reasons we'd think. We think we lose control, but we actually lose context - we can still track deliverables,…
People and Jokes
People who: get jokes: can usually connect the dots and solve intellectual challenges make jokes: are articulate, have comedic timing, and know how to use words for impact take jokes: don't take themselves…
Architects vs. Agents
Organizations pay headhunters more money to place one senior executive than they would pay all the coaches, trainers and people managers, combined, to develop that executive over their entire lifetime. This is the Architect…
What is your actual job?
You can't run a medical school without having an adjoining hospital. Students learn by working along side the best doctors, who, only after years and years of practice, become professors. …