Leadership & perspective
Chief Human Resources Officer · India
2026-08-13 edition
I want technical judgement to count beyond the client invoice. My work connects recognition and career choices without making people management the only route to seniority.
Section · The leadership journal
An appraisal correction exposed the difference between a commercial measure and an account of professional contribution. The employer needed to recognise work it had instructed without pretending that every unbilled activity had equal value.
Read the essayA voluntary recognition programme required a more careful account of acquired employees' earlier work. Common administration could not decide which history the benefit was intended to acknowledge.
Read the essayNineteen professionals faced a choice of responsibility. Funding a principal technical route required more than a title, and it left the enterprise with a continuing need to develop people managers.
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