An old image shows singers singing a patriotic song....
There is perhaps no person who dislikes the attention of others. To glow in the spotlight is an innate desire for most. People will perform many clownish acts just to be in the spotlight and though...
Planning often receives less attention from leadership than other managerial functions as leaders get bogged down in the daily routine and grind. This is not to say that they should ignore the...
The very concept of independence of any sort or type is an illusion. There exists no such idealism in reality. Every man and institution is dependent. Even with legal recognition, to think that...
The corporatization of business in the last century has created the need for getting properly qualified and experienced professionals to run the affairs of a business.
The mere mention of the word ‘harassment’ evokes, regardless of...
What is demagoguery? In Ancient Greece, demagogue literally meant a leader of the people. Over the centuries, the meaning changed and has come to represent a person who appeals to greed, fear and...
The arrival at any milestone, on the path of any pursuit, is not the end of a journey. Every milestone is a stepping stone for the opening of new vistas of opportunities and understanding. To see...
No management guru, practitioner or even an observer will dispute the dire need to cultivate and create a general feeling of ‘esprit-de-corps’ between individuals who are brought together to...
Perhaps for any relationship to be enduring it has to be built upon the edifice of relevance. In fact, in almost every single human interaction, the element of relevance is critical. The lack of...
If readers believe that the ailment of lacking focus and attention is an affliction limited to the politicians; then let this piece be a surprise. This disease is all-pervading, penetrating every...
Regardless of vocation, industry or segment of the economy or society, the principal requirement to make oneself prominent and outstanding is simply hard work. There can be no success without...
Human mind is both; a shrine of nobility and a workshop of the devil. Both capacities and capabilities remain at loggerheads, perennially. This constant feud between the two states of mind rarely...
Many people do not care about others. They are not interested in knowing about the perspective of others. They cannot see beyond their narrow and long Pinnochio’s nose. On display is their...
Perhaps there is no organisation or a group or set of people where the saint and devil do not reside as both, close and distant neighbours. Both know the art of coexistence. These elements are and...
What comes freely, costs very heavily. In “The Passionate State of Mind”, Eric Hoffer, comments, “There is a sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his”....
Since my childhood years, I have been hearing/listening, reading and watching on TV channels, the ‘challenges’ that our beloved nation is perennially confronted with. Infact, whilst I was...
Most of us rush in making judgment calls about others. We do this without taking the pains of verifying the basis of such formation of thought....
Because, I choose mostly, not to speak at all or at best, speak only infrequently, friends look at me as a “great conversationalist”!! My listening skills get misconstrued as conversation.
Is arrogance an attitude? A signature style. A class act. A self decorated attribute. An acquired privilege. A feeling of no one else is better than me.
Life is not a game of dice or chance. Neither is career. Both have to be chiseled and pursued with pre- determination of what one wants to do, how to do and have clarity to decide where to go. All...
Perhaps any thought that finds its initiation about leadership that doesn’t hold “values” in esteem is a non-starter. That’s the view of a positive mindset. However, inconceivable, yet...
In the very beginning, it is important to establish in simplest terms what ‘reputation’ means? Cambridge Dictionary defines the word/term as, ‘the opinion that people in general have about...
Regardless of which and what type of organisation, if a genuine, honest and fair poll is taken, it would reveal that a fair percentage of their workforce are “emotionally disengaged" with the...
Perhaps most of us associate state ownership with corruption, nepotism and inefficiency. This view stems from our limited experience of nationalisation, which stalled our economy for the longest...
Perhaps most readers immediate reaction to the caption would be, not another one, of, old wine in new bottle; or new wine in old bottle. Yes, it is both; the dilemma is, most of us do not know what...
The characteristics and traits of leadership in times of peace and placidity in the marketplace are significantly different from the skills required in leadership during times of crisis,distress,...
On the pages of this esteemed newspaper, last week, I dwelt upon how to focus on personality development. In doing so, I covered the importance of upbringing starting from mother’s lap to school,...
Without an iota of doubt, nature, blesses, upon each human kind the same level of natural intelligence . Nature is just, it has neither preference nor prejudice or bias, hence there is no unequitous...
Perhaps, you decided to read this article, because the caption indicates, it is a piece about the end and demise of corporate failures. No. It is not about laying to rest dead organisations. This...
Courage and compassion are not conflicting or contradictory traits or sentiments. Exclusively both traits are desired to be present in a leader/manager. However when both, inclusively are present...
Albeit, the role and responsibilities of a manager and a leader are quite distinct in the study of management sciences, however for this piece, the two are used interchangeably. There is a reason to...
Regardless of the field or profession, all are in quest of success, as understood by the pursuer.
This piece will be carried on the first day of the New Year,2024 ; hence to begin this article, firstly , a very Happy New Year to all readers of this esteemed newspaper.
Following several decades of experience starting from the management trainee position to the office of being chief executive officer, it is my considered view, and almost an article of faith, that...
Never Soar aloft on an enemy’s pinions.. It is no gain to gain the world, while losing the soul. "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...
There is no greater wisdom than silence. While silence can also be a powerful tool of communication, yet to verbally communicate is a need of all living beings. The lion roars, the birds chirp, the...
Perhaps, leaders are not good managers, by and large. Exceptions are far and few. On the flip side, managers too, do not make for good leaders. We have on the spectrum of evaluation a regular...
Perhaps, as a nation, time is one resource with which we are amply blessed. We could complain about the lack of many other types of resources, economic or otherwise, but time is something, that we...
No Man can live in isolation. No society can remain detached from other operating societies. No country can afford to be reclusive from the comity of nations. No person, society or country, hence,...
In the movie, Rex Harrison is shown as a teacher, who is frustratingly attempting to teach proper English, to a cockney speaking flower girl from the street....
The first foundation slab to be placed upon the concept of building or ‘team creation’, has to be an inviolable admission of the elected, nominated and dejure leader, that he/she is not ‘Mr/Ms...
It is rare to find any person who would willingly deny to himself the temptation to seek centre stage. To remain in the spotlight is a human failing. This innate human emotion stems from an...
With decades behind in the management of human capital or resources, it is my firm view that management is eighty percent docked in 'emotions' and only a mere quarter or thereabouts is real brass...
In our society most women are dependent on men in their lives, especially when it comes to managing their finances. It’s about time women learnt to secure themselves financially. You! takes a...
By a mere gleaning of only a few pages from the annals of human history, it can be established and recognised that succession to any position of authority has always been murkier and mostly...
All three aspects cited in the caption have inherent propensities for being misused or abused. Everyone desires and likes privileges. It is an inherent fallibility of the human species. The quest to...
We are Homo sapiens. We have evolved. So believe the anthropologist. The study of origin and development of human societies and cultures is Anthropology. Homo is the Latin word for ‘ human’ or...
Perhaps, it is inconceivable to mention leadership without a reference to integrity. The two are like Siamese twins; inseparable. Any attempt to assume leadership, devoid of the virtue of integrity...
