From Disruption to Renewal: HRs Covid-19 Journey

From Disruption to Renewal: HRs Covid-19 Journey
From Disruption to Renewal: HRs Covid-19 Journey
For organizations to maintain any level of sustainable success, they must learn to operate in ambiguity and constant disruption. HRs contribution to building a culture that not only tolerates this climate but also thrives in it will separate the winners from the losers.

For organizations to maintain any level of sustainable success, they must learn to operate in ambiguity and constant disruption. HRs contribution to building a culture that not only tolerates this climate but also thrives in it will separate the winners from the losers.

Every 400 years, the legendary Phoenix Bird rises high in the sky and then circles the heaven a few times. It is said that during this circling the sky, the bird is torn between its yearning to hurtle into the flame and the fear of facing its own end. It finally decides on what it is destined for – Renewal. It plunges itself into the eternal fire, only to rise again in a new, renewed Avtar and to live for another four hundred years.

I was reminded about this story in the context of the challenges HR is facing during the Covid-19 crisis. Plunging into the unknown crisis, not being certain about how to cope with uncertainty and without any precedents to fall back upon, many HR and business leaders, suddenly seemed to have frozen in their track – unable to move, unable to think...

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Dr. Aquil Busrai

Dr. Aquil Busrai is a Gold Medalist from XLRI and has to his credit a Post Graduate Degree in Law, an Advanced Diploma in Training and Development and a PhD. He is currently pursuing his second PhD and a Master's Degree in Anthropology.
He has 5 decades of experience leading HR in blue chip organizations like Unilever in India and Kenya, Motorola in Asia Pacific countries, Shell in Malaysia and Brunei and IBM in India.
Dr. Busrai is the past National President of the National HRD Network and a Fellow of the All India Management Association and Institute of Directors. He is an ardent wildlife enthusiast and a serious wildlife photographer.
Dr. Aquil Busrai is considered one of the most respected and sought-after HR thought leaders in the country, besides enjoying an impeccable reputation as an innovative HR practitioner.

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Dr. Aquil Busrai

Dr. Aquil Busrai is a Gold Medalist from XLRI and has to his credit a Post Graduate Degree in Law, an Advanced Diploma in Training and Development and a PhD. He is currently pursuing his second PhD and a Master's Degree in Anthropology.
He has 5 decades of experience leading HR in blue chip organizations like Unilever in India and Kenya, Motorola in Asia Pacific countries, Shell in Malaysia and Brunei and IBM in India.
Dr. Busrai is the past National President of the National HRD Network and a Fellow of the All India Management Association and Institute of Directors. He is an ardent wildlife enthusiast and a serious wildlife photographer.
Dr. Aquil Busrai is considered one of the most respected and sought-after HR thought leaders in the country, besides enjoying an impeccable reputation as an innovative HR practitioner.

March 2024

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