Steve Jobs said, “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Businesses need to move at a great speed in order to deal with an environment which is volatile and uncertain. It is their talent who has to play the critical role […]

“First comes thought; then transformation of the thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality”, said Napoleon Hill, author of best-seller self-help books. Companies are focusing on their core business rather than frittering away their energies in the ancillary functions. They need the business enabling functions such as talent acquisition to […]

 Howard Scultz famously commented about attrition in customer traffic to Starbucks, “I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience.” Organizations normally find reasons of attrition outside their organization. They attribute the […]

Large companies sometimes see great opportunities in the market and get into a hiring spree. They fight with the others to get the talent on board. As goes the old adage, there is a collateral damage when a fight breaks out. What happens when a war for talent takes place? Good news for employees! We […]

 Haven’t we seen and heard of people lying, overstating expenses when they went on a business trip, taking credit for others’ work, badmouthing colleagues and others? Stealing, taking shortcuts to work, shouting at others, passing sarcastic comments, being extravagant with actions and words are commonplace in many organizations. Many of us might not consider […]

  2018 has been a big year for mergers and acquisitions in India. Bloomberg Reports show an investment of USD 100+ Billion and being bigger than 2017. While deals like Vodafone Idea and Walmart Flipkart have been the poster children of 2018, the year 2019 is slated to see USD 100+ Billion. We see several […]

  Richard Branson had famously said, “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” This is well-said for freshers and beginners who would learn an art or skill by experimenting in a laboratory and sometimes on the job while working as an under-study of an experienced employee. This […]

Over the last 10 years, SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) has revolutionized and disrupted businesses in an unforeseen way. Size of the company, the industry sector it falls into and the markets it operates in do not matter. All of them need to leverage these developments so that they stay relevant. The transformation journey […]

Abraham Lincoln said, “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Organizations want to build an impermeable stone wall around their secret sauce. They want to guard it with zest and zeal. And at the same time, they understand […]

Michale Jordan said, “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation”. Founders have lived many such moments in their lives. Start-ups bring an idea into life; they combine passion, determination and courage while architecting a platform for the idea to blossom. They suffer from a variety of handicaps right from finding the people, finance, […]

There is no single solution or one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to successful hiring. Especially when recruiting for sales positions, the search for top talent is a constantly evolving process. In order to build a high-performing team, your organization has to fine tune your recruiting, onboarding and retention strategies. In this article, we’ve presented a […]

We had an open house yesterday. Someone suggested that we should welcome new joiners with a bouquet of flowers. I have seen organizations going to great lengths in conveying warmth to their new employee. Some go beyond bouquets; they organize team lunch, hand over welcome kit, give a bag of goodies, keep the desk ready […]