Musings of an HR Guy…Connecting the Dots
My first reading of Margaret Wheatley's writings many years ago aroused the sensation described by Keats in his "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" - which ends with those mesmerizing last words: "Silent, upon a peak in Darien". Keats compares his sudden discovery of Chapman's translation of Homer with the moment Hernan Cortes and his... Continue Reading →
Tripping blithely over the yawning inaction of recent times, let me attempt to slide back into rhythm with relatively less effort, by simply capturing some bits of observation lying about in my notes from the last few years: Winks: Struck by the glaring departure from the exemplary compliance culture of the Swiss, implied by the... Continue Reading →
Here's an entry that got sucked into a time warp. The lines below were written in the first week of September during an INSEAD week, but disappeared into a seldom-accessed Drafts folder on my pda-phone:- Propped by in bed in Ibis Fontainebleau right now. Fatima is rolling about in the sheets, putting her newly bought... Continue Reading →
I have a theory about alumni message boards. While everyone who joins up is at first motivated by the same desire to reconnect, catch-up and reminisce, over time the population gets divided into three broad categories, whose hallmarks I think have learned to identify in the tone and content of their posts. The first type (often the majority)... Continue Reading →
It is common knowledge that introverts use an inner theatre of thought to formulate and refine ideas, while extroverts have a bias for expressing thoughts early and refining them through dialog and interaction. Introverts are under the constant compulsion to utter only well-rehearsed words. Every sentence should be an exquisite rendition of a finely sculpted thought. ... Continue Reading →
Notes to Self 