Reflections: the stoic way!

There is a tendency for large companies to "infantilize" their employees and "drown creative people in process and bureaucracy," says Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson . Have you experienced what Greg says here? CEO Secrets: 'My billion-pound company has no HR department.'! https://lnkd.in/g-CDxXKe Ram Charan in his famous HBR article told the same thing. HR's meltdown moments! Check article here- https://lnkd.in/g-CDxXKe Ram told, while HR function is required, this department must go! Greg told the same thing, not just for HR, but even IT department! Two other interesting people in India, former CEO of HCL Tech and former CEO and MD of KPMG in India, Vineet Nayar and Richard Rekhy, in their famous AIMA's 14th National HR Summit in 2016 in New Delhi had announced; HR will be dead by 2020! Video link is here- https://lnkd.in/ev3Wt2iy Even if Greg, Vineet and Richard are right, it doesn't mean Dave Ulrich is proven wrong about his strategic H

  2 days ago Innovation, efficiency, and excellence—their name is GCC in India. Doesn't sound sexy? Can't help! What about GCCs in China? How much do we know about them, their success, failures and best practices? Do they claim to be doing the same magic there? Honest definition of a GCC anywhere- A Global Capability Center (GCC) is a dedicated "offshore center" of a large enterprise that carries out a variety of "operations," including research, innovation, and "back-end support.". Don't lose sight of the words like; Operations and Back-end Support work! 😀 GCCs in India are 4-decade old phenomena (Texas Instruments GCC dates back to 1984), still going strong! Cheaper, faster, and better has become, efficient, innovative, and excellent! From a low-cost destination to now more than 100 GCC staff in India getting more than a $1 million in annual salary in India. Of the 1700 GCCs in India, how many do you think really have done innovation