There has been a lot of back and forth in the Indian blogosphere of late, on the choices of SAHMs, on the choices of working moms. SAHMs wrote in justifying their choice to be with their children all day and vehemently denied that their brains were rotting away. Working mothers rose to defend themselves, on [...]
Lost Business Opportunities
Or – Dying old businesses in Bangalore Sometimes, when a business does not move at the right time, an opportunity can pass by forever. Well, forever is a long time, and businesses do reinvent themselves, but ofcourse it is much harder to rise out of a bad spell, than it is to move up when [...]
The Carnival of Human Resources ! Shoutout!
The 5th Carnival of Human Resources is up, a good read for all those interested in business and workplace issues. I liked especially Hueina Su’s piece on Life Balance Lessons, a piece that all us workers can learn from, but especially women workers who try to do too much in an attempt to be that [...]
Non-stop talking for office dummies
While some friendly banter with colleagues and getting updated on grapevine news can only be a good thing, we have at some workplaces, what I like to call, the “non-stop talking demon”, a species that holds forth on the phone with family and friends all day. Colleagues are invited to hear details of said person’s [...]
Customer Service Indian Style
I believe ATMs in Japan never ever go out of order. Its considered a matter of shame if machines malfunction, and companies go to incredible lengths to ensure that they work round the clock, or repair them immediately, if they ever go out of order. (I read a very interesting article on this some time [...]
10 reasons why (some) bosses make us hate them!
My friend P sends me this link from the Guardian on the 10 things that bosses hate about their employees. I understand the article is meant as a sort of rejoinder to the usual employee whinings about bosses. But some of it serves to explain just why we hate some bosses ! Some of the [...]
Cost of Order Servicing
For any manufacturing company (or even a large trading company for that matter), one of the critical issues that needs to be managed is estimating orders that will flow in, for a given period, and accordingly managing raw material procurement, production and packaging activities. Ofcourse, today many companies outsource production to a contract manufacturer, but [...]
Join the Feminists!
Its up ! The 35th Carnival of Feminists ! Visit and Enjoy ! I often meet people whom I would call feminist i.e. respect for women and their choices, treating women as people with independent minds, equal pay, questioning traditional norms of how women are supposed to be etc. But many such people shy away [...]
Cola Advertising : The big Burrrp
The new Coca-cola ad seems to be eliciting very polarized reactions from people, it’s either love it or hate it. I fall into the first category myself, but it makes me wonder whether ads should use devices that divide opinion so sharply. First, a bit about this ad for those who haven’t seen it. Aamir [...]
