Your job is not to be nice to people…

Your job is to get the work done. If during the process of doing so, you end up being nice to people (and people realize that), you are blessed. Not a lot of people can claim to be in such a position. But one cannot CANNOT over-rule the job, in favor of being nice to...

Mistake of promoting someone

It is Appraisal month at Groupon. We had conducted the entire event last year in paper format and wanted to transfer all of it online. In the hunt for a Performance Management Solution, we came across EmployWise – whom we have finally started working with. This is not...

My experiment with lies

Though I love Quora, I see it tending towards the mass appeal category. Funny answers with no relevance to the question, celebrity responses much lower in quality, non-serious take on the questions – all these are drawing more votes than others. It doesn’t...

Life is the best Social Network

“It would not have been possible without your help and guidance” 11 such statements have landed in my inbox since yesterday. While grossly inaccurate in its assessment (would not have been possible), the intent is overwhelming to say the least. And...