Sunil Pentapati

I have been thinking about this odd feeling for some time and want to check if any one else share the same position. Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence many companies have been moving away from classic Waterfall process to Agile and Kanban. Product development teams are aiming for minimally viable products (MVP) to gain faster quantitative or qualitative feedback instead of the traditional model where companies used to spend longer time building and testing before making them available to their customers. Individual employees are part of teams led by different managers in any given year and they are being given feedback continuously. Amid all these changes on how we operate we still continue to have an yearly ritual for reviewing an employee. Did they take a different role with the same name? What are your thoughts?

I think for a lot of people around the world there is something that strikes when they hear 8 hours. It is a third of your time per day and a significant part of your life.  So did you guess what I am referring to here? That is the amount of time most of us work and we spend an equal amount of time sleeping leaving us with 8 hours for the rest. So if you are someone who works for more than 8 hours how do you balance the rest? Do you get paid? Are you recognized for these efforts? Is the company expecting you to do so? To put it differently are you a person who do not want to spend beyond 8 hours at any cost? Do you think companies should not force you too? That is the time organizations ask from us. That is the time different people use in different ways. Is this the time that separates the successful vs. the rest? Ok! I will stop here with questions. When I started the article I said "for a lot of people" for a reason. Because a large...

This phrase was originated by Rene Dubos as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. In 1979, Dubos suggested that ecological consciousness should begin at home. He believed that there needed to be a creation of a World Order in which "natural and social units maintain or recapture their identity, yet interplay with each other through a rich system of communications". In the 1980's, Dubos held to his thoughts on acting locally, and felt that issues involving the environment must be dealt with in their "unique physical, climatic, and cultural contexts." So coming out of the context of its usage at that time I think we are using or to that matter of fact over-using or misusing this principal in other disciplines. Every time we watch TV and see an ad for soap or shampoo or electronics what we notice is not the product but the lifestyle of the people using them. So gone are the days where you design onc...

Comparison between leaders in the industry and leaders from different generations are not unusual in various professions.  In these comparisons we see how leaders from certain generations are revered for their leadership skills. However, the question arises, how many current leaders do you see in your list? If there are not that many, does that really mean that the current generation of leaders, for the most part are not on par, or is it something else? Here is my take: The context of Leadership changed over the decades, as has the context in which we are measuring it. According to the MIT Leadership Center "the history of leadership theory started with an emphasis on traits -- the notion that it is the make-up of the leader that makes all the difference." We all try to understand what makes a great leader and what leadership is, but the concept remains amorphous. Traits alone do not always predict the effe...