![From annus horribilis to annus mirabilis](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/parrot6.jpg?resize=119%2C102&ssl=1)
“Did you meet Dr Manmohan Singh?” Lulu, my parrot asked, as he perched on my shoulder. “No!” “Did you do Vipasana course?” “No! I do…
![Some Thoughts and Some Feelings Dec 23](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Some thoughts and some feelings, all mine: Like there should be no doubt that Founder-Editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal’s goose is cooked! And that surely…
![Ensuring 'Fairness' at Workplace](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Address delivered at HR Meet of Mahindra & Mahindra on Dec 18, 2013 [This is the Second part of my speech “Making our Workplace Competitive, Fair…
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Address delivered at HR Meet of Mahindra & Mahindra on Dec 18, 2013 [This is the first part of my speech “Making our Workplace Competitive,…
![Contracting Out](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/parrot6-1.jpg?resize=119%2C102&ssl=1)
“When we three friends met on the last occasion, a very disturbing realization hit us,” I said to Lulu, my parrot. When they get curious,…
![The End Game: The Inner Game of Industrial Relations](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chess-FelixMittermierUnsplash.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Introduction [This is the third and the last in a series of three blog-posts. Links to the two previous blog-posts are given at the end…
![Some Thoughts and Some Feelings Nov 20](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Some thoughts and some feelings, all mine: Like emotions are riding high. Supreme Court in the Campa Cola case intervened suo motu [on one’s own…
![The Middle Game: The Inner Game of Industrial Relations](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chess-Randy-Fath-Unsplash.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
I find metaphors very useful. I have used the analogy of the game of chess as explained in the previous post in this series. For…
![The Opening Game: The Inner Game of Industrial Relations](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Chess-sk-Unsplash.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
[This is the first in this three articles series on “The Inner Game of Industrial Relations.”] I find metaphors very useful. On my blog…
![Bollywood, Unicycle and Industrial Relations](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
[This article was written for ‘Business Magazine’ and appears in its Nov 2013 issue with a different title.] Industrial relations are like a Bollywood movie….