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Your Bell Curve Died. Your Managers Just Haven’t Attended the Funeral.

Dr. Arpita Sen2 hours ago1 hour ago05 mins

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…

Cognitive Debt: The Invisible Liability Sitting on Every Balance Sheet

Dr. Arpita Sen4 weeks ago58 minutes ago06 mins

Last month I watched a manager write performance feedback for his team. Except he did not write it. He typed three bullet points into an AI tool, got back four polished paragraphs, changed one word, and hit send. The whole exercise took ninety seconds. Six months ago, that same feedback would have taken him forty…

The Talent Review Is Where Careers Go to Be Misread

When HR and IT Become One Department: Who Sits in the Chair?

Your Bell Curve Died. Your Managers Just Haven’t Attended the Funeral.

Dharma of the Deployer: Why “The Vendor Built It” Will Never Be a Defense

Agentic Karma: What Happens When the Algorithm Treats People Badly?

Cognitive Debt: The Invisible Liability Sitting on Every Balance Sheet

The Compressed S-Curve: Why Your Three-Year L&D Roadmap Is Fiction

The Half-Life of Skills – And Why Your Retention Strategy Is Already Obsolete

Organizational Karma : Do Companies That Treat People Poorly Really Pay the Price?

Potential Is the Most Expensive Guess in HR- Why “High Potential” is often an opinion wrapped in competency language

Performance Management

Your Bell Curve Died. Your Managers Just Haven’t Attended the Funeral.

Cognitive Debt: The Invisible Liability Sitting on Every Balance Sheet