Each day, we are placed in a box of yet another personality type, yet another social class, yet another body type, and so on. It’s almost as if people have stopped believing that there is a possibility of being it all or being anything else other than what has been established. Like there is an adage that a misfit becomes a failure or a rebel. "Jack of all trades but a master of none",   is all we remember from the quote, and we forget that it is still better than a master of one. While other divisions may develop discreetly, the most evident is segregation based on professional success, which is defined by society only on the basis of materialism and other superficial factors. There are also several additional factors, such as the age at which a person should be successful, the type of assets a person should own, the years of sustenance and advancement, and so on. But, at such a young age, is mainstream commercial success the only success that matters? Success Is a By-...

  Picture this scenario if you can: you are running a relatively young company in a fiercely competitive marketplace where the norm is feverish change. Suddenly, in the midst of a firestorm, your CEO leaves you or even worse you are having to ask him to go. Where does that leave your organization? To even mature organizations, such sudden exits can be deeply unsettling. For smaller businesses it may be a death blow.  Take Twitter for instance which, even before Elon Musk, has not been a stranger to leadership upheavals. When CEO Dick Colosto left the engine room of the microblogging giant on a short 2-week notice, he left a potentially disruptive vacuum at the top. Only, it’s founder Jack Dorsey by taking over as “interim CEO” ensured that Twitter absorbed the shock without so much as a twitch of a muscle.   From behemoths like Twitter to small startups all across the world, Interim CEOs or CXO’s have helped steer businesses through the rough waters of turbulent ...

Yours truly has said this before and repeats it: Businesses are not driven by machines, but human minds. Note the plurality of the sentence, because while we are on the subject matter of human resources, it is noteworthy that no business can be managed by one person — especially while maintaining low cash burnouts and product development. Thus, to “hire an expert” is a choice most entrepreneurs explore, yet letting go of the individualistic control, is not what every entrepreneur is capable of.   As business leaders, entrepreneurs need to learn how to delegate important projects to expert teams 一 people who have the experience, knowledge, and trustworthiness — to bring immense relief to the business.   With Covid-19 bringing a much-claimed paradigm shift in every industry, businesses are somewhat averse to “hiring”, naturally, in the fear of having to let go of the person, putting a hole in the business’ pockets with the hefty salaries with their salaries. This is where ...

  For individuals climbing the corporate ladder, full-time permanent jobs have always been the go-to event. As the private corporate world faces a 180° paradigm shift owing to the covid-19 pandemic, the hiring sector is visibly juggling between perm and temp hiring. Increasingly, the idea of self-dependency, entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship, and having a life-work balance as opposed to work-life, has been taking the front seat and workplaces are adding a new chapter - Expert-on-demand . Notably, the addition of expert-on-demand hiring has not replaced permanent hiring. Instead, as new roles and responsibilities have come up post-pandemic, experts believe that hiring has become selective in these roles. For example, an expert-on-demand will work best for functions such as marketing, sales, cyber security, and some finance functions such as restructuring, taking the company public, etc., which are important but may not be a part of the organizational expertise. Meanwhile, roles...