by Aditya Mishra | Apr 27, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Manager, People, Resignation
Howard Scultz famously commented about attrition in customer traffic to Starbucks, “I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the... by Aditya Mishra | Apr 20, 2019 | HR, Jobs, Leadership, Manager, People
Large companies sometimes see great opportunities in the market and get into a hiring spree. They fight with the others to get the talent on board. As goes the old adage, there is a collateral damage when a fight breaks out. What happens when a war for talent takes...
by Aditya Mishra | Mar 16, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Manager
Abraham Lincoln said, “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Organizations want to build an impermeable stone wall around their secret sauce. They want to guard it with zest and zeal. And...
by Aditya Mishra | Feb 23, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Manager, People, Recruiting, Recruitment, Work
We had an open house yesterday. Someone suggested that we should welcome new joiners with a bouquet of flowers. I have seen organizations going to great lengths in conveying warmth to their new employee. Some go beyond bouquets; they organize team lunch, hand over... by Aditya Mishra | Jan 6, 2019 | HR, Leadership, Manager, Marketing, People, Recruiting, Recruitment
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well” said Jeff Bezos. There is no doubt that an organization aspiring to live long has to build reputation for itself and use the power of this reputation to... by Aditya Mishra | Dec 30, 2018 | HR, Innovation, Jobs, Manager, People, Work
In the words of Kage Baker, the famous Science Fiction author, “According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with...