Interviewed by Tata’s Russi Mody in 1977, GS Ramesh was asked where he wanted to start his career. “Where did…
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There is a thin line between an employee who wants to go the extra mile and one who feels they…
When G.S. Ramesh joined Hyundai as its first Indian employee, he found himself at the intersection of two very different…
When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new…
Learning has always been easier to deliver than to measure. In this podcast highlight from The CHRO Playbook, John Cherian,…
In this short clip from the first episode of The CHRO Playbook, Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer, Axis Max Life…
A senior television journalist, who now runs his own YouTube channel, was speaking to a student at Jantar Mantar during…
Something significant is happening to India’s technology workforce in 2026. Most people are describing the symptoms. Very few are examining…
There is a particular kind of trust between an employer and an employee who leaves their child at a company-run…
Many HR professionals aspire to become chief human resources officers, but few have a clear way of assessing how close…
Hire for potential, not just pedigree. Look beyond industry boundaries. Avoid groupthink. Value transferable capability. Bring in fresh perspective. Do…
What is the hub-and-spoke model? The hub-and-spoke model is a way of organising systems around one central point, the hub,…
The modern workplace has quietly entered an era of constant visibility. What began with attendance registers and periodic reviews has…
Krish Shankar, former Group Head of HR at Infosys and founding mentor at Crossmentors, recently shared a presentation titled There…
Every office has an org chart. Clean boxes, neat lines, official titles that explain who reports to whom and who…
There’s a peculiar theatre that plays out in every organisation when someone resigns. It’s called the exit interview—a carefully choreographed…
Vedanta has set a target to hire more than half its STEM recruits as women starting this year, a sharp…
If aliens ever study corporate life, they’ll be baffled by one thing above all: our complete inability to choose the…
Falling for human depth Looking back at her first HR role, Babita Basak was most surprised by how deeply the…
Somewhere between 1,80,000 tech layoffs globally and the invention of ‘job-hugging’ as a workplace trend, 2025 became the year Indian…
Company: EquiBank (fictitious), one of India’s top private banks with 45,000 employees. Background: EquiBank is under pressure—from regulators, investors, and…
India’s workforce stands at a troubling crossroads. Despite the country’s rapid economic growth and technological advancement, 66 per cent of…
There’s a persistent myth in corporate leadership: the higher you climb, the more you’re supposed to know. The corner office…
Organisations have discovered the perfect business model: demand highly specialised skills from workers whilst accepting zero responsibility for developing them.…
In this powerful excerpt, Sanjeeb Lahiri, Chief Human Resources Officer at GRP Ltd, shares how the company evolved from being…
The HR profession stands at an inflection point. Digital transformation, evolving workforce expectations, and the rapid pace of organisational change…