Gautam Ghosh
Gautam Ghosh's points of view about Organizations, Work and People.Gautam Ghoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691216163099240523noreply@blogger.comBlogger2235125
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Using Twitter to find a Job
Did I tell you that I am a Twitter addict? For those who don't know what in the world is twitter - here's a small description from wikipedia - Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery... |
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9 New Year Wishes for Managers and HR people for 2009
In 2009 may all of us: Get to know what each of our employees aspires towards. Have regular conversations with each of our customers and clients (use the phone, blogs, twitter or take them out for lunch!) Be ready to make remarkable products and deliver exceptional service Refuse to accept mediocrity Treat people with fairness. Spend good time with family and friends and have a life outside work too Learn a radically new skill (or two!) Not let the economic downturn affect our sense of... |
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9 New Year Wishes for Managers and HR people for 2009
In 2009 may all of us: Get to know what each of our employees aspires towards. Have regular conversations with each of our customers and clients (use the phone, blogs, twitter or take them out for lunch!) Be ready to make remarkable products and deliver exceptional service Refuse to accept mediocrity Treat people with fairness. Spend good time with family and friends and have a life outside work too Learn a radically new skill (or two!) Not let the economic downturn affect our sense of... |
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The Cost of Teleconferencing
Recently I was talking to a friend who heads Marketing for a Financial firm. She asked me "So how much time do you spend in telecons?" I was surprised and said that I hardly did so. I use the phone primarily to text or to only set up appointments. The actual conversation is almost all of the time face to face. The reason is that face to face conversation is the richest mode to exchanging information. And while I am a big evangelist of virtual communities and social networking and communication,... |
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The Cost of Teleconferencing
Recently I was talking to a friend who heads Marketing for a Financial firm. She asked me "So how much time do you spend in telecons?" I was surprised and said that I hardly did so. I use the phone primarily to text or to only set up appointments. The actual conversation is almost all of the time face to face. The reason is that face to face conversation is the richest mode to exchanging information. And while I am a big evangelist of virtual communities and social networking and communication,... |
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Indian Hiring Outlook Weak But Better Relatively
According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey : The survey data reveals that employers with the most active first-quarter hiring plans globally -- despite generally weaker hiring patterns -- are reported in Peru, India, Costa Rica, Canada, Romania, Colombia, South Africa, Australia, Poland, the United States and China. On the other hand, employers in Singapore, Ireland, Spain and Italy reported the least optimistic hiring forecasts. Only employers in Canada, the United States and Switzerland... |
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Employer Employee Relations in Indian IT industry
IT Entrepreneur Abhishek Rungta posts on his blog And suddenly, the situation has taken a u-turn. Companies are laying off their "talent bank" for which they fought so ferociously. The guy who walks out of office today is not sure, if his job is here to stay when he reaches office the next day. The morale is at all time low. Employees are finding it difficult to trust an employer. The question is - "Will he sack me today?" This is an environment of extremes and uncertainty. This is an environment... |
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Mumbai Attacks
The last three days have been a period of turmoil. I don't consider myself an emotional person (my MBTI profile is INTP , in case you want to know) but watching the Mumbai attacks unfold has been gut wrenching and heart-breaking. In addition my mind has been trying to make sense of all this. And failing. Then I remember that the human mind yearns for a simple solution, one explanation that explains everything. A simple formula to arrive at a definitive conclusion. In both personal as well... |
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Steps to transform HR to HR2.0
So there I was talking to some of my friends, who are HR professionals, who always look at me at bewilderment when the topic turns towards social media and networking. One of them shook his head and said "Why do you even bother? How is it going to help anyone in HR?" The conversation meandered along. I tried explaining the Cluetrain manifesto , the Long Tail , the Wisdom of the Crowds , Swarm Intelligence and Emergence , the move from Control to Collaboration and... |
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Calling HR professionals in NCR
The National Capital Region in India is a name for the conurbation or metropolitan area which encompasses the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi as well as urban areas ringing it in neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.So if you are a HR professional who works out of this region, you can join the NCR HR group on HR professionals or the NCR HR professionals group on Facebook . The FB group has about 30 people already as members.Hopefully these would be forum (fora?)... |
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Mumbai Terror Attack
Too shocked to blog anything today. Ever since I saw the news about the terror attacks in Mumbai, I haven’t had the sense or the inclination to blog.Here’s a list of my Tweets about the terror attack in Mumbai throughout the day.We've recovered and bounced back after terror attacks so frequently that I don't even feel like saying about Mumbai's spirit. I just hope and pray that the outrage and anger is channelised constructively !May you be safe.by Gautam Ghosh|Follow on Twitter... |
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Lower Salaries in the Developed world
Thank you Mathew Hayden, for calling us 'third world'. As Sudhanshu blogs , things are getting quite bad in the 'first world' and 'second world' From what I read, it looks like that at least for now, there is a lot of pressure to regulate salary. How come such a socialist attitude in the bastions of capitalism? One reason is that government money is being pumped into their financial institutions, and with that comes pressure to rein in the galloping pay packets. Wall Street Journal reports... |
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Influence and Power
The blogosphere has been a-buzz the last weekend on popularity and influence. A Prof of mine actually used to take an elective in my MBA which was earlier called Power, Influence and Politics which was later renamed to the more politically correct Leadership, Influence and Power. These three terms are closely related. One builds power which is not linked to formal positions of authority and positions by being of service to others. What one leader can offer by way of service can differ, from... |
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Influence and Power
The blogosphere has been a-buzz the last weekend on popularity and influence. A Prof of mine actually used to take an elective in my MBA which was earlier called Power, Influence and Politics which was later renamed to the more politically correct Leadership, Influence and Power. These three terms are closely related. One builds power which is not linked to formal positions of authority and positions by being of service to others. What one leader can offer by way of service can differ, from... |
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Don't become the expert
Earlier somewhere on this blog (in a post that mysteriously vanished!) I asked people as part of a 8 step process for career success, to become an 'expert'. However, the truth is expertise sits uneasily on my shoulders. I shudder when people describe me as any kind of expert. Even more than I shudder when someone (you know who you are!) describes me as a "Thought Leader". This post is essentially a reminder to myself, as 2008 draws to a close to understand that the time of the expert is a fleeting... |
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Don't become the expert
Earlier somewhere on this blog (in a post that mysteriously vanished!) I asked people as part of a 8 step process for career success, to become an 'expert'. However, the truth is expertise sits uneasily on my shoulders. I shudder when people describe me as any kind of expert. Even more than I shudder when someone (you know who you are!) describes me as a "Thought Leader". This post is essentially a reminder to myself, as 2008 draws to a close to understand that the time of the expert is a fleeting... |
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2008's last Carnival of HR
Whew! What a fast paced year it has been! The year's last Carnival of HR is already up! Peggy Andrews at The Career Encouragement - where posts vary from the implications of the economic crisis (special mention to Jon Ingham's post for us HR folks inHuman vs. Financial Capital?), to leadership issues ( special food for thought Wally Bock asks "what is leadership at it's core?" in Leaders Eat Last) then there's HR Bytes on Gartner Stresses on Employer Branding and Social Networking which focusses... |
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2008's last Carnival of HR
Whew! What a fast paced year it has been! The year's last Carnival of HR is already up! Peggy Andrews at The Career Encouragement - where posts vary from the implications of the economic crisis (special mention to Jon Ingham's post for us HR folks inHuman vs. Financial Capital?), to leadership issues ( special food for thought Wally Bock asks "what is leadership at it's core?" in Leaders Eat Last) then there's HR Bytes on Gartner Stresses on Employer Branding and Social Networking which focusses... |
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Booz Allen Hamilton's free ebook Capturing The People Advantage
Here's a nice Christmas gift to HR (and others too!) professionals! You can get a free PDF ebook Capturing The People Advantage: Thought Leaders on Human Capital by authors at Booz & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton.You can download it at http://www.strategy-business.com/HCreader[Clicking on the button will require you to enter an email id and some data about yourself. The link with the download instructions will be sent to that email id.]The authors (Richard Rawlinson, a partner with Booz... |
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Booz Allen Hamilton's free ebook Capturing The People Advantage
Here's a nice Christmas gift to HR (and others too!) professionals! You can get a free PDF ebook Capturing The People Advantage: Thought Leaders on Human Capital by authors at Booz & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton.You can download it at http://www.strategy-business.com/HCreader[Clicking on the button will require you to enter an email id and some data about yourself. The link with the download instructions will be sent to that email id.]The authors (Richard Rawlinson, a partner with Booz... |