Reflections: the stoic way!

Flexing It®  recently predicted that Global WFH experiment leads to permanent shifts towards remote, flexible and freelance talent across sectors, BUT very soon we saw the bellwethers dragging their feet on their earlier hubris on future of workplace! What led this quick collapse of this belief in "work is not about workplace"! "Remote is the future"! and such clairvoyance! Jennifer Christie  (see her comment in the picture below) saw it coming and made the right decision to move to  DocuSign  or  Bolt ! She is a visionary! Is  DocuSign  all remote or hybrid now? Chandrika Pasricha , how do you see this 100% back to office fiat impacting gig worker's and gig platform's (including  Flexing It® ) prospects? Ref:  Perspectives | The Impact of COVID-19 on the Professional Gig Economy (flexingit.com)

He is right! Let's focus on key questions: Can our system support high productivity (aka 70-hour workweek aka Work your A$$ off)) call? Is reward proportional? Do you trust your leaders to commit to this grind? NRN says; after WW2, both Japan and Germany slogged as a nation, and they became world's most powerful economies. --Mohan Das Pai slogged as a committed CFO and CHRO for  Infosys  for decades at peak productivity and as a leadership powerhouse, he took company to glorious heights, did he get his cherished CEO role at Infosys? No. So, what did he do after waiting too long? Quit! -SYSTEM DIDN'T SUPPORT! Leadership's double standards exposed. --During WFH, most managers agreed that staff worked at 30 to 50% higher productivity, if compared against pre-covid in-office productivity! Here, productivity simply means, what you get done and how soon, not necessarily how much! Soon after Covid vanished, people were asked to be back to work. Productivity back to 70% of the ...

  Sample this and find the villain! You hired from campuses (from various engineering schools), remotely in most cases, used proctored tests and follow up interviews, etc. Out of 700 students, who passed tests, came on board, after, 6 months in the job/training, were given the same online proctored test and 540 failed miserably. This analytics company was shell shocked! In my home state Bihar, there is a saying: अप्पन हारल, और जोरू के मारल, कोई नहीं कहता है !  (Translation: Everyone conveniently hides one's own failures and beating by the wife.). But like in the on-act play (एकांकी ) by Bhartendu Harishschandra : "Andher Nagri" , if the goat had died, king must find the culprit and justice must be done! So, culprit was found (No RCA, No investigations, No investigating team, No fact finding committee, etc. ) Culprit was identified: The third-party test platform who provided the "Proctored" test platform for ~25 cents per test including "proctoring " se...

  Manish Srivastava 's second book (MIDNIGHT JOURNEY OF A SEED-Pathways to Resilience In the face of a Pandemic) hits stand, and I missed laying my hands on it, for a long time! Not this time, though. Ordered on Amazon and got it the next day!  https://lnkd.in/gHw3xfEj I know Manish for 20 years now! Having known him being a flat mate during the MBA days, living in an asbestos clad tenement in a place called Jawadi (a ' basti ' in simple terms!) in Pune.  Back to this book! As the name suggests, this poetic book has been consummated while traveling, mid in the night (between a bedroom and the kitchen, at times) during the Covid pandemic enforced lockdown in India. As evident and the premise to this book; Manish is pained by people's plight, the long march by the migrant workers to their villages from big cities, who disowned them overnight! Penniless, hungry, dehydrated barefoot worker's helplessness and Govt apathy combined made situation worse!  It was a long, ard...

Prof  TV Rao , if we ignore those universities and colleges, that are run by industrialists, media houses and career politicians or those paddy field colleges, or those, which are designed to grab land, we have innovation centers and COEs galore at IITs, IIMs. Last year, IIM Indore got a Grant of Rs. 19.95 Crores to Establish CoE! IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) is a not for profit (Section 8) company established under the aegis of IIM Calcutta to promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation. IM, Ahmedabad–IDEA Cellular and IIT, Kharagpur–Vodafone Essar have set up Telecom Centers of Excellence long back. IIT B, D, Kgp, M, etc. Have several Innovation centered CoEs running. For all this to flourish and drive value for the nation, please ignore HRD managers. Grownups should not depend on HRD for their learning in this modern world, where learning is available. 24/7 for free. If you remember,  Ram Charan 's HBR article "Time to Split HR" / https://lnkd.in/g-CDxXKe  ! which...

3.5 Crore people watched India Pakistan Men's World Cup cricket match on Sunday on Disney+ Hotstar. While the number was 32 Lakh on same app,  in 2020 when India Pak women clashed in Women's World Cup cricket. Does anyone know what's the gender split of the viewers here? Out of 130000 people in Narendra Modi stadium for the Sunday's match, what percentage would be women spectators? Tom Peters and Jordan Peterson mention that 70 to 80 percent decisions of spending is made by or largely made by women! Women footballers make 25 cents to their male counterparts in WC matches... We expect equal pay for women. Are women in anyways responsible for this disparity? Or, should only men feel sorry for their choices (you call it biases as convenient)?  

To all those companies, whose 90% HR folks have identified with one or the other gender identities on LinkedIn and to you, who celebrated, 'Gay pride' and 'lesbian rights' during the diversity month by drenching your company logos into the rainbow shade! Here are a few humbling Qs for you and the woke leadership team! 1. Do you have gender neutral toilets in your office? 2. How many open gays you have identified and have started projecting them as symbols of freedom from constraints or heterosexuality? 3. Have you made your Sexual Harassment policy gender neutral and coached people on the new liberal norms? 4. Are you still having a Woman as your #ICC Chairperson? Have a Gay there or a Transgender? 5. Did you have a survey of folks who didn't identify as He/Him, She/Her, They/Them, etc. for their identities ( #LGBTQIA +). Make it an inclusive place with open identities. 6. Like Accenture (Indian subsidiary included), how many of you are funding Gender-Affirmation ...

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  Like DEI and ESG in the corporate, we have Employee Experience (EX) and Employee Engagement (EE) in HR, as some fancy things that are peddled through expensive conclaves and fireside chats, keynote addresses, roundtables, awards (this is on purpose) and the likes! EX is new EE, which was earlier called employer loyalty! HR for a few decades took the role of the employee messiah, donning the EE mantle, but couldn't see any noticeable change in people's commitments to their purpose, org strategy/vision and the ecosystem where they operated. Then came EX and this time with a clear power and accountability shift to the CEO! All for good as he has the power, voice, money to ensure, people have been equipped with right set of information, resources, mandates and someone has their back. The biggest next hurdle to the EX, after HR has been the managers (the middle layer) and Google knew it after their much-celebrated experiments called hashtag # ProjectOxygen and the hashtag # ...