Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers, skills and the world of work. The cartoons and sketches are mine.
Building the Workplace of Our Dreams
Every large behemoth was once a startup. To manage the challenges of scale, organizations have to build norms and rules. Keeping the startup’s ethos of nimbleness is a leadership challenge.
The Adam Grant Interview
In the long run, the most effective style is not taking or matching, but giving: helping others with no strings attached. Givers tend to build deeper and broader networks than takers and matchers, investing in meaningful relationships that provide motivation, social capital, and access to new ideas. Adam Grant spoke to me about hiring, networking and his own approach to managing time.
Book Review: Creative Confidence
Successful innovations arise out of a blend of three drivers. People must find it desirable, business must find it viable to produce and distribute it using their business model and be profitable and the technology used must make the idea feasible. Since the business and technical factors are taught, the book starts by looking at the “people factors” and how to understand the motivations and core beliefs that drive behaviors.
Ten Terrific Songs of RD Burman - Raga Based
RD Burman passed away on 4th January 1994. That year saw the release of 1942 A Love Story, a score that was to get him one of his three Filmfare awards for Best Music Director. He got nominated 17 times for the award that eluded him. While we mostly associate a more western sound with RD, I think of him as a composer who simplified the most complex Hindustani classical music and made it accessible to the masses. That is the true yardstick of expertise.
