Why most 9-box conversations reward organisational memory instead of organisational evidence. The first time I sat through a talent calibration discussion, I walked into the room with a quiet confidence that now feels almost naive. I had spent days preparing what I believed was the right material for a serious conversation about people. There were…
There is a number floating around leadership circles right now…. 64% of leaders predict a full HR-IT merger within five years. Most people who read that stat nod, file it under “interesting,” and move on. I could not move on. Because hidden inside that prediction is a question nobody in HR is asking out loud….
Every appraisal season, somewhere in a conference room in Mumbai or Bengaluru or Gurgaon, a manager is fighting for a rating. Not for a person… for a rating. The employee’s actual work stopped mattering forty minutes ago. What matters now is the distribution sheet on the screen, the one that says only 10 percent of…
I was sitting in an HRMS evaluation a couple of years ago when a vendor said the sentence that eventually became this article. We were deep into the demo. I asked how their screening algorithm ranked candidates…. what data it learned from, what it penalised, what it quietly rewarded. The salesperson smiled and said, “Ma’am,…
A friend of mine applied to a large tech company last year. She spent four hours on the application. Eleven minutes after submitting, she received a rejection. Not a polite one. A cold, auto-generated line that misspelled her name and thanked her for her interest in a role she had not applied for. No human…
