Corporate's favorite sport: HR Bashing! But why everyone enjoys the HR bashing?

Looking forward to the talk Gopal A Iyer

For those of you, who don't know Nathan SV much, check out this video when he was moderating the Heavy Weight stellar NHRD Bangalore Chapter, debate on the subject: Start-ups and young companies don't need HR heads!
If you are in HR and have not watched this video, you have missed a millennial talk on HR and it's existence and worth in the eyes of the most celebrated business heads, including the one's who spent 25 years in HR before they turned the table..
Here is the link. It's sad to see the wrong spelling of Deloitte in the video title...No one cared to even look at it and correct it. :(
https://lnkd.in/gEskBWx5
I wish Gopal talks about this debate , where even the folks who had to debunk and counter the naysayers to HR Head at the start were actually beating HR black and blue...
Vineet Nayar and Richard Rekhy, you guys are not alone in writing an epitaph for HR....
Hari TN had a great view on what HR is expected to do at that startup/small and fast paced new firm. Rightfully so, if you looked at his generals in HR that he hired at VP levels, they were not any of those celebrated and media sensations in HR...
HR means business. HR is just a part of overall business strategy. like marketing, investor relations, supply chain, and various other streams of business. HR is not about HR heads.
I wish Gopal talked to Nathan about such topics as those raised in this debate.

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