Career Bloom
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Author: Mrityunjay Kumar
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Stack ranking keeps the ‘valuable employees’ in focus, Bell Curve forces managers to be realistic in rating performance. These are good tools but are too hard to use, and their use ends up creating more harm than good. So how do you deal with them?
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Compensation Planning in most organizations are dependent on market and business conditions, and so it is important to understand those dynamics and not confuse it as a measure of your capabilities or performance.
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Performance appraisal systems were designed using assumptions that don’t hold true in modern workplaces. No wonder appraisals yield upsetting results!
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This post is part of the series on 9 Realities of Modern Workplace. In this post, we talk about Reality #2: “Organization deliberately sets up goals for people and departments that conflict with each other”. There are 2 reasons why organizations end up creating conflicting goals: Organizations need a healthy checks-and-balances system. They need one…
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This post is part of the series on 9 Realities of Modern Workplace. In this post, we talk about Reality #1: “Organization doesn’t care about you, it only cares about the value you create”. A job is a financial arrangement: you offer to provide value, and the organization pays you for it. Like any other…
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While talking to a project manager in a services company recently, I was reminded of how little people (even those with 8-10 years of experience) understand modern workplace. We were talking about promotions and bonuses and she was lamenting the fact that promotions very rarely happen in the mid-year review. When I asked her why…
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Summarizing my entrepreneurial experience of last 7-8 months, part 3 of the series I have been writing since I came to India.
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Two real stories, one long and one short, and an observation on how you can learn product management from city administration. Story 1: Caring about unmet need I live in Greater Noida, which very clearly has been designed by people who thought a lot about city planning and had lots of creativity. Roads are very…
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My recent talk with a 3rd yr student in a Greater Noida engineering college left me very disturbed about lack of quality and responsibility of such private colleges. My thoughts on what needs fixing, and what we can do about it.
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By making the kids start preparing for IIT-JEE so early in their life (Class VI in some cases!), we are robbing them of their childhood, and setting them on a path to cramming, rather than developing joy of learning. It’s time we change this!
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