Politics offset the benefits of research.

The recent saga of fuel price hikes by the UPA government left me wondering how the fuel price would offset my personal budget…. A tangential thought occurred to me this morning; over the years automotive manufacturers have pumped in millions of dollars into engine research to make engines that are more fuel efficient. This is [...]

Profile of a high growth team

As an individual we are inherently prone to evaluating personal growth as opposed to team growth. So I began studying teams to identify what would characterize a ‘high growth team’. This is one of the things that are often overlooked by novice managers also. Some of the fundamental questions we would want to ask is [...]

Indie Techies are inherently non-collaborative.

What follows is a trend I have noticed from the years of watching the IT crowd in India and their way of work. If you take the vast world of the ‘collaborative internet’ gifted by web 2.0 and analyze the participation/ contribution of the Indian IT crowd we see that they are inherently ‘problem driven’ [...]