The Appraisal season

Come March-April and everybody is worried about appraisals,this being the scenario in most Indian companies. Some more cautious employers hold back the appraisals till later part of the year to maximize the utility of the employees soon to fled from their company.

I found out that no matter who pays and who leaves, both the employee and employer are at risk during this season.You lose your job or you lose your resource, both important for sustainability.This of course being the aftereffect of the appraisals season.

And then there is the bargain game...who to retain and at what worth....... there is something here to ponder upon...during all this game of cat and mouse, the people who facilitate the smooth going of the process, the HR team ,who become so indispensable during this process.............what would  compensate if the brain drain happens in this department!!

Management Manages the Manager!!!

   Most of the time we as all employees find the management synomous with our manager...."I am the boss you do as I say." Same as the manager throws at us an unfriendly proposal and says," its a management decision." and washes off his hands from the situation.

So it makes most of us wonder ,"is the Management managing the Manager or the Manager is the Management."

   Amazingly the fact remains that Manager is the forerunner or the front face of the management.Though the manager is a unique identity but somewhere down the lane when a manager becomes  part of the company for a long period he carries the identity of the management and unfortunately somewhere his unique thought process blends into the system and he starts thinking like the management.
   So even though this is in the better interest of the Organisation, looking from an employee's perspective.........an empathetic manager is always desirable. 

Edible Entrepreneur

Long back I had known someone who was a high spirited fellow and a dreamer.He would always boast about his budding interest in entrepreneurship. He would just go about relentlessly taking about anything and everything to start up his own business, be it his own designer label,to his becoming a hotelier, owing an alcohol bar to moving into publishing business.Day in and day out we all friends would get jammed up with his talks.....but his company was contagious, his ideas hilarious and his treats were appeatising....

In the later years,changes were fast paced and we slowly left out in touch.Each with our busy life we hardly stayed to wonder on those carefree days.When recently sure I came across this friend of ours in his flagship store" Edible Entrepreneur".His store was more of a coffee house /snacks bar typo but had only previledged customers who were either entrepreneurs or dreaming to be one.

The New Age He-Man

I recently had the previledge of sharing discussion space with a new age actor turned politician.As opposed to my thinking the evening would be dull and boring, with only "its me" talks , the evening was anything but dull. We had few other discreet industrialists participating in the discussion. The opening note started with " What best can I do for you!" Whao.... so our new age He -Man had a polished speech,( spare me for my prejudice but i judge people by their speech). By and by as the evening started coming to an end I was amazed to learn that our He-Man was not only a veteran actor in regional filmdom but also an MBA grad from a University of repute(a place which constantly gets its ranking amongst the top 10), a loyal sportsman being a part of the Ranji Trophy, a convent educated people's person.

As I came out of the convention hall, i had the faith that Our country in the true sense is progressing towards economic and social enlightment, also that we need more such new age "He Mans"!!!

faith or superstition

This has been a topic I had thought of writing since a long time...but somehow could not assimilate my thoughts into words ... until recently when i came across a eye witnessing happening.India we know is a land of different religions, beliefs, wonders and magics. This I happened to see in one of the remote places which still today i haven't been able to believe.
 There is a belief here that gods talk to our people through some people's body, and the person possessed at that particular time knows nothing of what happens to him/her. His/her voice becomes discreet and different ,talks in different languages ,becomes sadistic and moronic which otherwise the person is not and most mysteriously tell you things associated with your life which you haven't revealed to  anyone yet....
Now the point becomes after i myself witnessed a small gathering talking to this godly feminine ....do we call it "Faith", "Superstition" or more scientifically "personality disorder"?