Gautam’s Net

Emergence
Emergence publishes articles of a qualitative nature relating complex systems, sensemaking, psychology, philosophy, semiotics, and cognitive science to the management of organizations both public and private.
A good site edited by Lissack. Especially for people interested in systems thinking.

My post in IndiaStrategy-ThinkTank
If I think about it, confidence is the desire of “I can do it” and a very
personal feeling…and one sees it in a team sometimes (as in the current Australian team) and one can easily confuse it with arrogance (Glenn McGrath, or Sourav Ganguly anyone?)
To transcend this ‘can-do’ attitude at an [...]

Consulting in 2003, Areas of Growth
Polling ~ 1,500 management consultants, the results provide the clearest indication yet that the sector should experience a modest recovery this year. Over 75% of respondents believe that 2003 will be characterised by stability or growth in revenues, whilst only 24% believed there would be any further headcount reductions [...]

Which Strategy Consultancies do candidates most want to work for?
McKinsey continues to enjoy a major competitive advantage over rival consulting firms, according to the results of a survey published by Top-Consultant.com
Respondents confirmed McKinsey is the employer of choice amongst strategy consultancies, securing almost twice as many votes as any of its rivals. It was [...]

Top Ten Trends for Online Communities
The article starts with:
“The online community sector has negotiated a wrenching twelve months, as played out in each issue of the Online Community Report. While user popularity of online communities continues to swell, the business underpinnings of most efforts have foundered. Contraction and closures have characterized the [...]

Gurus of Management
Hidden away in the Learning English for work section of the BBC World Service website is a gem of a guide to Management Gurus written and delivered by Charles Handy, the celebrated management thinker, writer and broadcaster. You can listen on demand to each of the fifteen minute broadcasts and download the [...]

Hi, I am a big manic when it comes to books and stuff, so I thought I’ll rant and rave about books I read, coffee I drink and food I eat on this blog.
Do keep coming back for more.

wiAn inquiry into the role of weblogs in online community building
“The rise of the Internet as a medium of communication has prompted much debate about its effects on social interaction, both offline and online. The ever changing landscape of cyberspace (Gibson, 1984) – characterized by the rapid development and subsequent adoption of new [...]

Knowledge work as craft work
“Knowledge work takes us back to a world of craft work practices. The “symbolic analysis” that Robert Reich identifies as the essence of knowledge work is designed to create the one-of-a-kind results that characterize craft products. Recent flaps over plagiarism by both students and professionals are a concrete reminder that [...]

Dr. Madhukar Shukla of XLRI, Jamshedpur in Business Today’s Trimillenium Issue on
(Un) learning about Jobs & Work
Crystal-gazing into the future (and that too about people!) is a dangerous preoccupation. And yet, it is also tempting. Perhaps the only way to speculate about people management in the future is by looking at where the emerging [...]