India’s IT consultancies will either be radically disrupted soon or face permanent obsolescence-- a slow death over the next decade.
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This piece breaks down research on how to fix collaboration fails… applying findings from Organizational Network Analysis to the idea that managing senior stakeholders is collaboration.
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If you need an excerpt for this one, seek professional help.
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Your leaders will work hard on everything, including making you feel like everything is going well.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s no reason for capitalism to have a hard edge. It can and should reflect who we are and who we aspire to be.
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Never thought I’d make a second video. But I also never thought I’d be on a Moroccan holiday adventure and need a reason to ditch my awful family for an hour.
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I’ve been spending a lot of time in my man cave, playing with #ChatGPT.
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Here’s my second annual “I’m panicking” post. As you know, I go through books like bubble tea and last year, when I posted that I was down to my last hopeful recommendation in my reading queue, this amazing community graciously filled that queue with an amazing list of over 50 favorites.
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Coaching in the corporate world is fundamentally broken. Same goes for mentoring and sponsorship. The problem is one part developmental challenge (career gamesmanship getting in the way of cognitive growth) and one part structural (i.e., having to coach within the best interests of the Firm, not necessarily the employee).
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Bookmark this one if you’re an engineer in a large enterprise. Come back to it after your next string of meetings.
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There's been a lot of sad news lately about tech companies cutting staff.
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How is it that HR leaders continue to fight an uphill battle when pressing fpr diversity?
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Just doing my part to encourage biting. (That’ll make more sense if you read the piece.)
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When I first read this headline about an outsourcer letting go of 300 people for moonlighting, I was convinced it was The Onion. I clicked on it fully expecting a joke about how work-life balance was being replaced by work-work balance.
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If you’re an engineer at a bank– any bank… whether you aspire to be a CIO one day or not… don’t watch the video for its content. Watch it to understand what you need to learn… how deep you need to go… to become a better engineer, a better partner… an honest-to-god business contributor.
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I published this anonymously 10 years ago in Information Week under the very click-baity title “Innovation is executive porn.”
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I am in *LOVE* with equicratic.org— a non-profit started by a longtime friend and mentee, who— in my opinion— has the best answer ever to “why’d you leave a promising career at JP Morgan after 20 years in HR?”
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I heard once that fun is the f in life. Without it, it’s just a lie.
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There are only two times when I turn my camera off during meetings. The first is the obvious one— you do *not* want to see me eating. I was clearly raised by ramen-lovin’ wolves.
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Next purchase for my kids: a gene splicing kit. I don’t care if their room is a mess but somewhere in there, they better be growing something cool. On purpose.
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