his blog reviews a beautiful film written and directed by Chloe Zhao, and based on a recent non-fiction book – Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder.
Hope for the Gig Economy: Unleash the Prostitute Within!
This blog is about one of the four survival archetypes – the Prostitute and its energies that are relevant in the Gig pandemic world today
The Mad Mad Mad World of Market Capitalism: Integrating Luc Boltanski’s Polities with Ashok Malhotra’s EUM
This blog looks at the works of Boltanski and Ashok Malhotra as one grapples with the near impossibility of taking political stances in today’s world
The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas
The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas Is Democracy being reduced to meaningless hyperreality – a simulacrum for the monkey mind of the common man entrapped within a world that is increasingly virtual, untrustworthy, unsafe, lonely, and ambivalent? The Context & the Divide This blog leverages textual analyses of two speeches given by […]
Stress, Workplace Violence and Work From Home (WFH): Safeguarding Well-being and Meaningfulness
This is a blog exploring stress and workplace violence in the context of WFH – exploring role of policies, strategies and practices that can attenuate stress
The Microcosm of RWAs in Gated Communities – Middle class angst, schadenfreude, and narcissism
This blog explores the microcosm of gated communities of privileged elite in India and offers an understanding of dysfunctional processes as well as opportunities for transformation within.
The Fragility of Global Supply Chains & the Coronavirus Pandemic:
This blog summarises three key challenges that i believe POM can enable us to work with when it comes to revitalizing our fragile SCMs and manufacturing
Conscientiousness, Prudence, or URB: Leveraging Symbolic Interaction & EUM
Introduction This blog is a critique on how trait theories including Five Factor Model (FFM) and the Hogan framework, are being used by modern firms as a predictor of human performance. The personality testing industry across the globe was stated to be worth USD 7.5 billion dollars by March 2020 before the Coronavirus impacted us. […]
Love and Work in the Times of Coronavirus
Here is one more blog, on what you and I can do, as our world gets fragmented and perhaps even claustrophobic with more clampdowns. Each of us faces an opportunity to withdraw from the relentless world of gregarious consumption, from the extraverted pursuits of travel, entertainment, and style, and of course from the toil […]
Typologies & EUM – A theory in making
Introduction As Ashok Malhotra aptly puts it –“If structure follows strategy, then strategy follows identity…” Many of us who are deeply influenced by Ashok, and who work in the OD space, emphasize on the Identity processes within the firm while working with on its culture, or its strategy and its design. A key resource […]
