Category: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Putting Psychometry in Perspective
The last few months have been an eye opener for me on how ubiquitous is the use of psychometrics as an assessment tool. My new role as the founder of a company dedicated to leadership development and my engagement with various organisations brought this home to me. I have realised that this is led by […]
A New Lens on Leadership
Your leadership calls, and how you interpret opportunities and threats, are influenced by your lenses, which are unique and personal to you The mighty elephant is hidden inside the wood The mighty elephant hides the wood The Creator is hidden inside the expansiveness of the universe The magic of Creation hides the expansiveness of the […]
What’s common to Hitler and company budgets?
[The supreme commanders of the four powers on June 5, 1945 in Berlin: (from left) Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. By December 1944, it was clear that the German war machinery was broken. So, Eisenhower decided to pull his strongest resources into reaching Berlin before the Soviets […]
Research and Analytics: Better Accept With a Pinch of Salt
Nostradamus should be the patron saint of the Big Data and Analytics cult. I say this because we have hardly paused and reflected on what analytics can or cannot do. Despite the warnings from Taleb, Kahneman and Dobelli we have chosen not to take note of their caution on the human proclivity for cognitive biases. […]
How Intelligent Are Our Methods of Judging Capability
Our understanding of what constitutes human capability is so sketchy that in management and leadership education, very little attention is given to comprehend this. This is strange especially the heart of running any social institution be it commercial or others, is leveraging human ability to make capital create surplus for economic and social progress. Yet […]
The Psychology that makes Agreement Compulsive
“Too much agreement kills the chat.” John. J. Chapman Every leader highlights the importance of challenging the status quo. Implicit in this is the virtue of challenging the state of affairs as they are. However, reality has conditioned many not to challenge. The liberty to challenge is perceived by many as the privilege of the […]
Strategy Retold January 14, 2015 | K Ramkumar
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” – Sun Tzu Strategy is the term business has borrowed from military. This word has its origins from the Greek word Strategos or Strategia, meaning leading/guiding/moving an army. It became synonymous with […]
Values Sermon: Pause and Reflect
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” ― Turcois Ominek (From her book “Masquerade”) The incessant sermons on values made me risk writing this article. Political, Social & Business leaders, TV anchors, columnists and activists of all ilk, tell us about how they are the […]
The World and beyond of Innovation
300 years back men of science, believed that disease and pestilence were spread by odour. They could not conceive the existence of microbes, since it was not visible to naked eyes. When Dr. Edward Jenner talked of sterilisation they scorned at him and treated him as a mad man. Early humans were seized to the […]
Meritocracy: A Bitter-Sweet Choice
In 1984 after completing my Post Graduation, I had rejected a rare campus offer those days, from Mettur Beardsell (current Madura Garments) Ltd. and opted for Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., a PSU. My uncle who had retired from Bharat Petroleum, a PSU but had joined this company when it was Burma Shell Ltd., a multi-national Private […]