This blog explores alternative organization designs such as holarchies and holacracies that promise new types of organizations – that are perhaps more aligned to their contexts, innovative to the boot, and that create value for their stakeholders. My experience with Turn The Bus has offered visceral encounters that enrich my understanding of the theory and […]
Category: On Leadership and Management
Inaari.org, social entrepreneurism, and the hegemony of capitalism
A few weeks ago, I had a breakfast meeting with Rashmi Putcha, who has been a dear friend for several years since we first met at an INSEAD program. Rashmi has recently founded a new enterprise known as Inaari – and listening to her was extremely fascinating and deeply insightful, as she spoke of how […]
Focus, Collaboration, and the Elephant in the Zoom:
This blog builds on the initial research offered and challenges some of the ways of working witnessed in the past 20 months during the pandemic
Integrating the ‘New’ Leader: In Search of Synergy
This blog offers a construct that allows for a examination and choices thereof of ‘synergy’ once a senior manager or leader is recruited by the firm
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 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 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
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 […]
From Boom to Bust: On Organization Identity, Sustainability and Transformation
From Boom to Bust On Organization Identity, Viability and Sustainability The Context The WeWorks fiasco is not a new story … it is yet another blip reminiscent of similar fiascos in new age capitalism, each fiasco that has been shaped through orgiastic rituals involving tyrannical entrepreneurs, pipe-dreaming and perhaps delusional angel investors, and narcissistic but […]
Incorrigibly romantic ... 