HR Managers, Retaining Talent, Entrepreneurship

You will find HR managers obsessed with retention of talent. Infact for many retention of talent is one of the key performance indicators. HR Managers keep coming up with ideas to retain talent. HR Managers should also think about what if they don’t retain talent. One impact would be rise in cost of hiring and …

Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking, The Checklist Manifesto

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” ― Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do Matthew Syed is a British journalist and table tennis player. He has written a book called Black Box Thinking, in which he deals …

Venezuela Crisis, JNU and Lal Salam

Venezuela has huge reserves of one of best natural resource in world- Oil. Rising prices of oil resulted in huge cash flows for Venezuela. The then President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez decided to follow the socialistic model of economy. He decided to spend this money on social welfare, the money was supposed to be distributed …

Luigi Pirandello, Late Mattia Pascal, Midlife Crisis

“For the moment (and God knows how much it pains me), I have died already twice, but the first time was a mistake, and the second—well, you may read for yourself . . .” Luigi Pirandello, Forward to The Late Mattia Pascal Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello has written novel about an Italian youth called Mattia …

Richard Thaler, Winner’s curse and Nudge

“The economics training the students receive provides enormous insights into the behavior of Econs, but at the expense of losing common-sense intuition about human nature and social interactions. Graduates no longer realize that they live in a world populated by Humans.” ― Richard Thaler Economist Richard Thaler in one of his articles quotes an interesting …