Honesty: Not such a Natural Orientation
The current debate about Dhoni and our expectation that he should have told what he knew to the Hon Justice Mudgal Committee made me think. There is almost unanimity that any one of us would have told the truth, if we were put in a similar situation. One of the celebrated TV anchors was certain […]
The Busby Way to Talent Management: The Phoenix Rises – Part 2
Busby said “From the start, I had envisaged making my own players, having a kind of nursery so that they could be trained in the kind of pattern I was trying to create for Manchester United”. Busby now was restless. He wanted to pit his team against the best in Europe and not just win […]
The Busby Way to Talent Management: The Making of “Busby’s Babes” – Part 1
Manchester United Football club, a premier club today, in 1945 was languishing with only one league title in nearly 40 years. Its coffers were empty. It was saddled with a debt of 15,000 sterling pounds. Its stadium was bombed out, derelict and dilapidated. It was under these circumstances that the club appointed an army physical […]
The Thinking Challenge: Trapped Inside with Only a Keyhole View to the World – Part 2
In part 1, I had proposed that we are caught in a few thinking traps and fail to comprehend that we have at least 2 views to our world. Analytical thinking is dealing with the world as it is: Comprehending reality. Conceptual thinking is the world as it can be : Visualising the world with […]
The Thinking Challenge: The Trap We Willingly Walk Into – Part 1
Over the last 30 years, having been part of many discussions and meetings at various levels and forums, I have often wondered about the quality of thinking in these discussions. The ones where I found it to be of high quality, it almost always had the following: A well thought out proposition on the table. […]