Strategic Management- A New Perspective!!!

  “We seem to increasingly trade privacy for convenience with many of the devices we routinely use” -           Michael Sandel (Harvard Professor) Have you given a thought on the information that is freely available about you without your knowledge? Have you ever experienced?   When you are searching for a holiday accommodation on any website, and you leave the booking incomplete…have you noticed the same hotel advertisement catching your eye as you browse through social sites be it Facebook, Instagram or any other online site? When you buy any specific items from any online site…have you noticed related  products being advertised to you? e.g. buying maternity clothes from website, you suddenly start noticing advertisements about other  maternity products, children clothes, toys? It all happens because of your information and preferences been tracked and monitored through a small cookie (its not the one we get in...

I have been reading a lot of articles and posts on social media, that Work from Home is more tiresome than going to office. In office you can chat with colleagues, take small breaks, have long conversations during lunch hour. But now, we write brb (be right back) if we need to take body breaks in between back to back meetings. Why this pressure? I do not understand - is it to do with us or the organisation? I guess it is to do with us. Let me explain why I think so. Earlier before lock down, work from home culture was not very well adopted in most of the organizations. Especially with Baby Boomers and Gen X managers it has been difficult to trust subordinates working from home. If one had to work from home, it was under constant threat of being monitored whether online or not, achieving set deliverables or not. It may not be with the managers but in own mind we created that association or what we call nowadays tags. Tagging “Work from Home” to negative emotions like Fear, anxiety, co...