Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers, skills and the world of work. The cartoons and sketches are mine.
Piku: Movie Review
Piku is an endearing tale of a young lady in her thirties who looks after her seventy year old father who is a hypochondriac. Very specifically he is obsessed with his "morning ablutions"... What makes it so watchable is the ordinariness of the story.
Book Review: Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
Imagine writing the biography of a sixteen year old. Could it be interesting to someone who is a stranger? Would the life lessons be useful to someone who is much older? What if the sixteen year old happens to be Google? If Eric Schmidt's book How Google Works told us about the hardware and architecture of Google, then this one is about the source code.
Margarita With A Straw
The best movies tell stories that leave an aftertaste. Margarita With A Straw is that film. The taste lingers on long after you have watched it and mulled over the story again and again. That’s because Margarita With A Straw (MWAS for short) tells you so many untold stories.
LinkedIn Buys Lynda.com - what does that mean
The world will open up for the new learner who does not depend on being nominated to a corporate training program to beef up their skills. They are curious learners, who learn by trying out ideas. Those will be the most sought after in the job markets of the future.
Book Reviews: The Front Row
Who reviews books written by cinema critics? Remember that puzzle, "Suppose the barber shaves everybody in town, except for all of those who shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?" That's a bit like what I felt like while reviewing The Front Row by Anupama Chopra.
Stay Updated Stay Successful
It helps build humility to say that you need to learn something new and the courage to acknowledge that anyone, even someone junior, could be their teacher. So courage and humility are two great signs of an internally-motivated person.
Skills In A Team
Collaboration and the ability to work with a group of specialists is making today’s businesses look more and more like what goes into producing a great film or a winning cricket team. Every business needs to be viable, feasible and desirable. Here is my list of 11 skills that makes a team achieve all three objectives.
Analog vs Digital Leadership
Powerful digital engines are everywhere, capable of the continuous production of new knowledge to feed new ideas. But, where are you? Are you still an analog leader in a digital world?
Future Crimes - book review
If you have a smartphone or have used email or have been on social media sites like Facebook you should read this book. After all “600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised daily”. If you use apps to find your way or shop online or have used free wifi at a coffee shop or a bank, you need to read why it is almost certain that your data has been compromised.
Dum Lagake Haisha
In a world obsessed by size zero and anorexic looking heroines, it takes courage to make a movie with a rather plump looking leading lady. But that's what makes this story unconventional. Thought provoking while still being light hearted.
PhD for B Schools - do we need them?
It is not the degree that matters but it's what the degree represents -- critical thinking, familiarity with generalizable frameworks, a sense of "where the field of study is" that the teacher needs to have.
Women Techie Careers
Every business is now beginning to become a technology and data business. A sector like e-commerce is expected to grow at 50% in the next five years. The online retailers generate terabytes of data every day and need to build data science capabilities that can help them sell better. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will continue to have the most opportunities. Women techies should make active plans to build successful careers.
Leadership for a digital enterprise
The digital workforce uses technology to buy, sell, rate a product or service and share their ideas with the world. They are opinionated and are unafraid of rating anything from their managers to their increments and HR policies on the net for all to see. They create content for the social media by constantly uploading pictures of their activities, their selfies and whatever is on their mind – everything is just a tap away on the smartphone. No process has a defined beginning and end. Everything is ongoing and continuous and this speed of continuous and open communication leaves the analog colleagues dizzy.
Leap Year Babies and Weddings
Yes, my friend is what we call a “leaping year baby”. Yes, that’s what they are called. I have never been able to call him that. Leaping year sounds the same as “leaping ear” and feels weird to visualize.
The Bell Curve of Parenting
Like everything else in life, there is a Bell Curve of parenting. There is the vast majority that is doing what everyone else is. A few are not doing anything at all and are clearly below average. A few people are doing things that make the average performer feel inadequate.
The entrepreneur mindset in the digital age
Entrepreneurs are irrational. Their dreams are always greater than their resources. In the digital age the notion of entrepreneurship is getting redefined. Why is it so?
