Bridging the Cultural Gap - When going local is not just about saying "Aloha"

Indian companies entering other markets face a set of diverse cultural challenges in integration and assimilation because they are not traditionally, the multinationals of the world. In that respect, there is a certain amount of skepticism in countries where Indian firms try to take root. Read More

 

Indian Multinationals: Generation Y (Not??)

The Tata Corus deals that finally culminated in April of 2006 and 2007 involving Corus and Jaguar/Land rover not only took the world by storm, it also firmly planted the Indian flag across the global map. Read More

 

Social Media for Executive Search : Worth Considering?

If you were to tell someone that you don’t have a Facebook account or a Twitter page or even a LinkedIn id, it would probably be considered a blasphemy. In today’s day and age, when our “social circles” are made up more of virtual friends across different parts of the world and our “business associates” are identified by the number of 1st degree connections on our LinkedIn id. Read More

 

When Small becomes Big

Organizations aren’t born big- neither do they come attached with an expected accoutrement of defined policies and systems. They are born from an idea to incubate the fledgling thought into an independent and capable entity. And the journey doesn’t stop here. It then becomes a pursuit of growing from small to big and then big to bigger. Read More

 

How Employers Turned Frugal post Recession

When a country grows at a GDP growth of a 8.6%, and posts the faster ever growth in six months (in quarter ending March 2010), expectations of the standard of living doing a pole-vault is usually a given. But what does that do to the job market? Read More