The Today Paper

My columns published (or soon to be published) in The Today Paper

Columns, The Today Paper, Corporate Life

To Know or Not To Know

Newspaper column in Today on 8 Aug, 2007.

Technical knowledge is not always a good for you in the modern workplace. Unless you are careful, others will take advantage of your expertise and dump their responsibilities on you. You may not mind it as long as they respect your expertise. But, they often hog the credit for your work and present their ability to evade work as people management skills. […]

Work and Life, Corporate Life, Columns, The Today Paper

How Much is Talent Worth?

Newspaper column in Today on 21 July 2007 on talent shortage in Singapore.

Singapore needs foreign talent. This need is nothing to feel bad about. It is a statistical fact of life. For every top Singaporean in any field — be it science, medicine, finance, sports or whatever — we will find about 500 professionals of equal caliber in China and India. Not because we are 500 times less talented, just that they have 500 times more people. […]

Columns, The Today Paper, Corporate Life

Performance Appraisal — Who Needs It?

Newspaper column in Today on 14 July 2007.

We go through this ordeal every year when our bosses appraise our performance. Our career progression, bonus and salary depend on it. So we spend sleepless nights agonizing over it. In addition to the appraisal, we also get our key performance indicators or KPIs for next year. These are the commandments we have to live by for the rest of the year. The whole experience of it is so unpleasant that we say to ourselves that life as an employee sucks. […]

Corporate Life, Columns, The Today Paper

Handling Goodbyes

First newspaper column in Today, 7 July 2007 (07/07/07 :-)) on handling staff resignations.

Hold on to your pants, your key staff has just tendered his resignation — your worst nightmare as a manager! Once the dust settles and the panic subsides, you begin to ask yourself, what next? [..]

Malayalam, The Today Paper, Columns

The Worldly Malayalees

I wrote this piece on the World Malayalee Conference 2008 for a Singaporean newspaper. I was away in India during the conference (22-25 August, 2008) and did not see it in print. This post is about my home state of Kerala, its language Malayalam, and those who speak it – the Malayalees. If those words make no sense to you, you may not be interested in this post.

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