Have you taken a personality test recently and are somewhat dissatisfied with what it reveals about you? Does your Boss seem to trust the findings of your psychometric profile more than his experience of you when it comes to your growth and that promised promotion? Are you a HR leader seeking a tool which may […]
The Phantasy of the Asexual Workplace: What lies beneath?
The Phantasy of the Asexual Workplace: What lies beneath? Introduction One of the oft repeated lines I get to hear from my clients is – “We don’t allow the firm to be influenced and or affected by sexuality – we are a professional organization that endorses values, norms, boundaries, and with a working culture […]
Ferdinand: A Manna of Hope and Love today …
Ferdinand: A Manna of Hope and Love today … The Context Last night, I saw the 4-D version of Ferdinand – an animated film adaption of a classic story that refuses to die down in a world that is besotted with achievement, success, greed and masculinity. On one hand, there have been a series […]
Identity: In Search for a Narrative
This long read explores identity as a process by linking it with emergent narratives as well as mythologies.
An Ethical Dilemma: The Homo Reciprocan in the modern corporation today …
This case is based on our research of how the Indian Manager today struggles to hold the civilizational coding of Indianness that stresses on Kinship & Reciprocity and the demands of market capitalism and Homo Economicus
The Case of ‘Sibling Rivalry’ versus ‘Competitiveness’
The Quintessential Indian Manager – A EUMian Perspective Bed Time Story # 11 Part 1 The Story … Ravi pushed his chair back on a hot May afternoon in western India and sighed … The antiquated AC, crookedly nestled on one top left corner in a large cabin, wheezed and grunted as it […]
The Simulacrum of Meritocracy
The Trigger… A few weeks ago, I was teaching ‘Managing Change’ at a premier business school in India – a batch of fifty odd young consultants from one of the big 5 global consulting firms, to my shock and dismay indulged in rampant cheating, colluding, and copying from each other in every assessment process – be […]
