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The Smart Way for New Businesses to Get Clients: Venture Clienting
The Smart Way for New Businesses to Get Clients: Venture Clienting
By Swati Sengupta
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Meet DeepDrug: The AI Gamechanger for Drug Discovery 🔬
Meet DeepDrug: The AI Gamechanger for Drug Discovery 🔬
By Swati Sengupta
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The Startup Secret Sauce: Articulating Your Value Proposition
The Startup Secret Sauce: Articulating Your Value Proposition
By Swati Sengupta
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My mum passed away this morning. I was in Kochi this week and had a long and memorable interaction with her just yesterday. Although she hadn't been…
My mum passed away this morning. I was in Kochi this week and had a long and memorable interaction with her just yesterday. Although she hadn't been…
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Trainer
Youth Employability Program
Publications
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The Malady of Mediocrity
Journal of Organizational Change Management
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The Titleless Leader
The Journal of Organizational Change Management - May 2022
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The 10th Apple Effect: 3 Lessons for Leaders and HR Managers
Human Capital Online
The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility — or the 10th Apple Effect — has significant ramifications for leaders and HR managers. By understanding this law, leaders can address their business predicaments and proactively plan and make appropriate outcome friendly decisions.
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Case Study: Preparing Managers for Difficult Conversations: The Need for Training Interventions
Indian Journal of Training & Development Volume 50 No. 1&2 January - June, 2020
One of the toughest calls that managers need to take in the corporate world is of letting people go
or "downsizing". Indeed, if there is one colour that employees dread, it is the colour Pink. So intense
is the after-effect of issuance of these "Pink slips" - the term that organizations worldwide use for
termination notices - that employees today refer to themselves as the Pink Slip Generation.
More often than not, the decision to let go of employees in large numbers has to do…One of the toughest calls that managers need to take in the corporate world is of letting people go
or "downsizing". Indeed, if there is one colour that employees dread, it is the colour Pink. So intense
is the after-effect of issuance of these "Pink slips" - the term that organizations worldwide use for
termination notices - that employees today refer to themselves as the Pink Slip Generation.
More often than not, the decision to let go of employees in large numbers has to do with
business strategy, organizational performance and market conditions. Every time the world has seen
an economic downturn, it has been followed by large scale reduction in workforces. Much as the
effects of such actions is cataclysmic for the affected staff member, it is nonetheless perceived
by employees as less severe than a dismissal on account of poor performance. At least one can
blame organizational performance – or lack thereof – for such decisions! Layoffs have become
so commonplace now, that people feel very comfortable citing the real reason of their
unemployment with their prospective employers in job interviews.
How do managers and leaders in organizations have effective conversations with those who are being laid off? Indeed, how can organizations prepare such leaders to have difficult conversations?
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Business / Corporate Writing
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Communicating with Social and Emerging Media
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Cross Cultural Communication
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Leadership and Capacity Building
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Marketing Management
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Projects
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My Experiments with Colour.
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Honors & Awards
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Gold Medalist
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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Gold Medalist - PGCGM (executive MBA)
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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English
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German
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English
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বাংলা
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বাংলা
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Hindi
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German
Elementary proficiency
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