'Sandbagging' means a player deliberately losing his games, along with it his rating points, so as to play in a lower rated player tournaments and win cash prizes.
The youth today want to go where they feel happy, learn something, feel challenged, rewarded and intellectually stimulated. And then, they meet 'the manager', a relic of the first industrial revolution. A fascinating excerpt from Aseem Dhru's book, Mondays @ 7.
Just as the atom and the byte needed careful societal control to prevent damage to society, perhaps, so does the gene, particularly in debates like 'genes vs merit', explains Ajit Balakrishnan.
The North East is a sizeable success story for the Modi government politically and for the BJP electorally. It will be an unpleasant surprise if they choose to blow it, bowing to their basic, polarising instinct at any point, points out Shekhar Gupta.
HR experts believe however that times are changing and more and more companies are planning a revamp of their appraisal systems
After removing Bell Curve model, company plans to do more periodic review of staff goals for facilitating continuous feedback.
Workplace mentoring helps young professionals understand their work, encourages them to perform more effectively and gives the motivation to do better work, says Ambrish Sinha.
Despite the recent slowdown, e-commerce tops the projected average salary hike list
Evaluation gets tougher as companies battle uncertain macro conditions and automation.
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U B Pravin Rao explains how the company is executing the strategy.
'We are at a time and position that we do not need higher number of visas.'
The rating system requires more transparency and better communication because it lies to employees
'The Congress, all these decades, worked on a slow Hindi-isation and Indianisation of Arunachal tribes. The RSS wants rapid Hinduisation,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Hercules has its moments, says Paloma Sharma.
'Anything that is anti-growth is demonised because growth is the biggest religion.' 'Growth is synonymous with progress. In fact, it is the opposite.' 'Exponential growth is cancer.'
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