Workhorse

September is the dark horse of the Month family—dark, even when it’s not raining.

It's 8am, and poor me with the poor eyesight, having to do the day’s Copywork 365 with the lights off—so Noé doesn’t wake up and I…

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My PhD Project


"I get tired of "under 40" lists. Show me someone who got their PhD at 60 after losing everything." —Doug Murano

As a retiree, from a 30-year career as "Head—HR & Corporate Communications" in India’s biggest steel pipe…

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The Inverted Organisation Chart


That’s how I’d  divided my attention as head of HR: 

Blue collar workers came first—top priority;

Next, the support staff;

Last, the managers.

How did I do it? Simple—I just inverted the pyramidal organisation chart to make it look like…

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Are you a native speaker of HR?

If you said, “Yes!” just because you’re fluent in HR jargon, then, you are not!

Jargon-infested HR lingo is nothing but creole—buzzwords borrowed from mainstream business language; buzzwords that have lost their fizz, like ‘empowering’…

As HR head of an…

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