There’s a familiar workplace paradox most professionals quietly wrestle with. You’ve probably seen it play out more than once. The…
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There’s always that one person in every team. They’re not the loudest voice in meetings. They’re not showcasing every small…
Talent decisions have long been shaped by proxies. The institution on a CV. The marks on a transcript. The brand…
Company: Heritage Textiles (fictitious), a third-generation family-owned textile and apparel business with 3,000 employees and Rs 800 crore in annual…
When competence met understanding Richa Dubey would have liked her younger self to understand organisations as systems, not just roles.…
Life insurance sits at an unusual intersection of trust and urgency. It is a product people know they need but…
Krish Shankar, former Group Head of HR at Infosys and founding mentor at Crossmentors, recently shared a presentation titled There…
There is a seductive belief shaping corporate strategy today: that artificial intelligence will separate winners from losers based on how…
What does ‘contextual intelligence’ mean? Contextual intelligence is the ability to understand the environment around you, interpret its dynamics, and…
On a weekday afternoon in a Metro Shoes outlet on a busy Mumbai high street, a sales associate kneels to…
Organisations are investing heavily in coaching. Coaches are multiplying rapidly. Employees across levels are being “coached” in some form or…
In the race to build truly inclusive workplaces, global organisations often face a quiet but critical tension. The same company…
Every office has an org chart. Clean boxes, neat lines, official titles that explain who reports to whom and who…
The nature of work is not just changing. It is being redefined. As artificial intelligence moves from assisting tasks to…
From finance to HR “HR chose me,” says Divya Kiran, recalling how she found her way into the function whilst…
Company: Sterling Industries (fictitious), a Rs 1,200 crore manufacturing conglomerate with operations across automotive components and industrial machinery. Background Three…
Higher education presents its own particular version of the HR challenge. The workforce is highly credentialled and professionally mobile. The…
There is a number in NIIT’s 2026 India Skills Gap Report that should unsettle every vice-chancellor, HR director and policymaker…
Talent strategies are often built around gaps. A role opens up, hiring follows. Skills fall short, training gets commissioned. Leadership…
What does it mean? Lily padding is a career strategy in which professionals – particularly younger workers – move deliberately…
AI is being deployed across organisations at speed. But its success will not be determined by technology alone. It will…
There was a time when learning had a rhythm. You studied, you worked, you grew—step by step. Today, that rhythm…
The future of work is often framed in extremes. Skills versus degrees. AI versus human judgement. Agility versus structure. But…
There’s a peculiar theatre that plays out in offices every day. Someone says, “Let’s take this offline and circle back…
HR has spent the last few years participating in AI conversations. By 2026, it will be expected to lead them.…
Healthcare sits at an unusual intersection. The sector is driven by purpose, yet it generates some of the highest rates…