My most recent book provides a primer on essential soft-skills for managing your career. During my own career of 30+ years, I focused on sharpening my soft-skills along with the hard-skills required to do my job. A lot of times I was told that it’s only the hard-skills that create a differentiator and learning about… Read More »
Hyperboles and fear-mongering aside, in few years the reach and pace of AI adoption in all aspects of our lives and business will accelerate. We are fast approaching the hype phase where plastering AI, in bold letters, on a slide deck will pique VC interest and unlock some funding. Use of AI will be touted… Read More »
On an average more than 250,000 patents get filed every year in US alone. Every company worth its salt, especially in hi-tech, is notorious about protecting their intellectual property. They hire teams of lawyers to make sure no one steals or copies their ideas; even if these patents never see light of the day in… Read More »
In every organization there are stellar sales folks who have a touch of gold. For an outsider it appears that they walk in and close a deal over a handshake. Others in the sales team try to mimic their style or observe and learn but never seem to be able to match their throughput. What… Read More »
One of the challenges that all enterprise face is to identify the right leaders and build a robust leadership pipeline to secure the company’s future. For any organization that intends to stay in business long after the founders have retired or are gone, the worst nightmare is to have layers of mediocrity in its leadership… Read More »
Now that I have grabbed your attention with sensational headlines, continue reading if you’d like to use AI for hiring transformation and talent management. Over the decades, HR and Staffing have earned a bad reputation. The workers blame them for always siding with the management, while the management blames them for not adding any value.… Read More »
Let’s start with the low hanging fruit before I get into the domain of using AI for line-of-business. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) became absolutely necessary because of big-data. If it were not for ML and AI, most of the social media platforms would have been rendered useless from the get go. Consider… Read More »
I vaguely remember the day but somewhere between Nov 1994 – Jan 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. With every click on the hyperlink of static web-pages my excitement and visions of the possibilities and the future exploded unbounded. During the course of my career, I have never bothered my family with… Read More »
Smugly, the rock said, “Look at me. I can bend the river around me”. The twig, resting in the embrace of blades of grass, responded, “I think you resist the flow”. “The flow is dangerous! It poses risks…”, after a moment of pause the rock said, “… sometimes fatal”. The twig thought for a moment,… Read More »
In one of my earlier posts, Yearning, I mentioned that sometimes it’s not the words that claw at your heart but a picture that seizes your gaze. It then sprouts words that come together to form a prose or a poem. When my nephew, Siddharth, posted this picture on Facebook I felt this compulsion to… Read More »