COLUMNS
OFFHAND
World and 9/11
There will be no time when memories of 9/11 will cease to be an indelible part of the history of humankind. The sheer scale of the destruction and the ingenuity with which it was wrought have no parallel. So ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Undertone is positive... for now
Fed pause hopes: FIIs flows may be uninterrupted
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Are you reading the fine-prints?
Majority of new investors prefer summaries and graphic presentations
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EX PARTE
An old bank that came under the axe too fast
UWB or United Western Bank is the latest fishbowl, with almost everybody taking a peek at what's up. Sadly, the cynosure of the financial sector is anything but healthy, languishing as it does in intensive care under a moratorium imposed by the ...
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CHAT
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls
Jogin was reading worrying reports about the board intrigue in HP. Dakshinamoorthy was wondering what was happening to wheat. And Sridevi was studying the financials of UWB... Till Khan alerted them with an SMS, "Get chatting!" Hop on, fast. * ...
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EUROSCAPE
Outsourcing opportunities, Continental-size
With offshore and near-shore outsourcing of traditional IT and back-office work in Europe set to grow 30-35 per cent per annum in the next few years, the Continent is the place to be for countries such as India. With Indian service providers vy ing for every bit of the European opportunity, they will need senior managers who have the aptitude to interact across cultures.
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JOTTINGS
Facing the truth
The week remembering September 11, 2001, began for us with a sad reminder, in Malegaon this time, that terrorism is truly worldwide and is alive and well. Of all the chatter on the box on this occasion, by far the most constructive and moving was ...
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PEOPLE WISE
The futility of post-training evaluation sessions
Post-training evaluation, typically at the end of the class-room session, is like choosing to inspect products only at the factory gate before being shipped to customers — too little and too late. If you want a return on your training investmen t you need to redefine the entire approach to training. This is as relevant to long-term strategic learning and development initiatives as it is to simple knowledge and skill-building programmes. As a result of the rather short-sighted approach to evaluation, the entire onus of learning gets shifted from the participant to the trainer.
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