The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 29, 2008

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HUMAN RESOURCES: IPL lessons for HR
Business and sport can teach each other a thing or two. The first Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament held earlier this year unleashed a new wave of euphoria among viewers. While there were questions about various aspects of the tournament, ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Storming another male bastion
A ‘cushy job’ may not be everybody’s cup of tea. It is certainly not what the women at Cairn India seek. It’s been a long journey for women engineers in the country. Three decades ago when Ms Sudha Murthy was rejected for ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: The direction of HR
A do-it-yourself communication tool for the harried HR professional. You are the harried HR head of a mid-size company. There are multiple fronts that you need to activate to communicate with the company’s employees: there’s the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Changing time
The concept of time, as we know it, is changing. As the Indian economy grows over the next decade or so and a predominantly young population enters the workforce, a big problem that is likely to emerge is a certain loss of meaning. The early ...

BOOKS: Make real progress every single day
What is one particularly important enemy of urgency? A crowded appointment diary, says John P. Kotter in A Sense of Urgency ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). We are too busy with dozens ...

PEOPLE: ‘Experimentation, a key quality’
A great leader is one who presents a clear set of goals, builds a motivated team that helps build the path to the goals and drives the team to achieve them. He should balance listening with leading, inspiring with involvement, holding ...

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