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...

What have you lost being an entrepreneur?

A regular pay check? Company of people smarter than you? Stability of a big firm? Time with family? Time with friends? Time with books? Time for yourself? Your hobbies? A mind free of thoughts? And what have you gained instead? A smart entrepreneur will always find a...

Key challenges – the famous slide!

Fantastic anecdote by Ravi, while at Wipro. Change of management – new head of sales is brought in. Super sharp. Direct. No nonsense Meeting with top management. One gentleman presents a slide, with the title “Key challenges” New head stops the...

What is entrepreneurship

I was at ISB Mohali this weekend. Fantastic experience – lovely new campus, enthusiastic bunch of students, wonderful weather, the ISB touch visible all across! One of the clubs had invited me for a talk on entrepreneurship. And I found it best to summarize what...