Looking Inward

Education – India’s Next Success Story?

Milind Wagh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:24:00 +0000

India’s growth in recent years has been led by the recent big boom in the BPO/KPO sector. With the off-shoring trend, India faces the challenge of generating an appropriate supply response to retain its existing advantage. The real challenge therefore, is to expand capacities in higher education to keep ahead of the demand curve. But the country [...] Related posts:

Defining Leadership

Milind Wagh — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:39:46 +0000

‘Leadership’ has been one of the hot topics in management for the management gurus to dwell, opine, write and debate upon. Opinions on leadership are certainly abundant and written about for hundreds of years. Yet the recent failure examples of business leaders indicate that there is a huge problem and all the definitions and debates on [...] Related posts:

‘Meetings’ – A Revelation

Milind Wagh — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:39:55 +0000

It was a fine Sunday morning as recollected the course of my recent meeting at the Electronics Technology Park the other day. The thoughts made me squirm on the sheer inefficiency in which the meeting was conducted and concluded. This meeting again had obviously failed to get the job done. In countless organizations, we have seen [...] Related posts:

Analyzing Conflicts

Milind Wagh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:24:13 +0000

It happens to all of us. And it brings out the best of us. In the course of delivering measurable results to a valued client, every consultant has faced problems like deliberate or not-so-intentional scope creep, delayed or improper client feedback, undercover political issues, unreasonable or utopian expectations, or a midstream change in client priorities [...] Related posts:

Business and Beauty Pageants

Milind Wagh — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:11:11 +0000

Those were my initial days in Telecom Marketing. Times were exciting. We had a $2 mil budget lined up for our product launch campaign and the week was reserved for vendor finalization. Each one of them (we had five players in the fray) had lined up a four hour concept presentation which was to follow [...] Related posts:

Managing Change

Milind Wagh — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:20:46 +0000

In the recent years, organizations have done better in managing and guiding change. But the challenge is that the world is changing faster than organizations are getting better at it, and the gap may be growing. The rate of change is increasing, though not linearly. Many organizations just can't keep up with the speed of change. Related posts: