Business Manager - September 2017

In this issue

This month's cover story is all about hands on stories from startups entrepreneurs, who have made their own way, met the challenges and ultimately succeeded along with studies, which may be very inspiring and useful to all, providing a good read.

The Importance Of Agility In The Workplace

Multi skilled flexible people play a significant role in developing agile enterprises. For most of the twentieth century management has improved by developing new and better systems. Agile firms are less dependent on systems, more dependent on the intelligence and opportunism of people.

5 mins

Train The Talent Instead Hiring Fresh

In an organisation when there is a skill gap identified, inducting fresh talent to fill that gap is the normal course of action for HR. In the article the author argues that instead of opting for fresh talent, organisations should explore the possibility of reskilling and upgrading the skills of the present employees to fill the gap which is comparatively less expensive. It will also help in retention.​​​​

3 mins

Startup Bubble: Rise Or Fall?

The Startup story : what works, what  doesn’t?

4 mins

How I Started And Nurtured My Startup..!

Coming from a service class family, I had no idea of business. I had no one to turn to for the basics. I got in touch with some consultants; none of them knew the entire process of getting all the approvals. We were very clear, we did not want to start on the wrong foot, and we wanted to be 100% compliant. I did face many challenges at various stages e.g. in just few months of launch, the competition tried to pull us down, however the issue was resolved soon. Teacupsfull now is a fully registered brand. Challenges do prop up many times, however the key is to stay positive and never give up. There is always a solution to every problem.

4 mins

Building A Higher Education Institute - The Entrepreneurial Way

If life is the greatest teacher, what should our educational institutes be teaching? This question intrigued me for many years.

6 mins

Making People Lives Happy By Financial Planning

A lot of people told me that I was an idiot to go back to India and start off. People kept telling me that you will come back in 2 years so why don't you just start here in the US. All I had was a belief that I could make it in India, the drive that was necessary and the support of my wife, parents and a few close friends. I was convinced that I would find an audience who would appreciate advice in their interests and the fact that one could build a scalable business by following the simple strategy of 'Honesty is the best Policy'. Thus, MFA was born from my apartment's bedroom.

7 mins

Entrepreneurship Is All About Taking Risk!

Happydemic is India's one of its kind digital platform for discovering and engaging some amazing performing arts talent which also caters to customised entertainment options. We have singers, poets etc who register on our platform and we then connect them with right audiences. The beauty of this idea is that it's a melting pot of dreams. 

6 mins

Should Startup Go For Hr Advisory?

This certainly is an era of Startups and each entrepreneur envisions of creating a large organization in the due course of time.

2 mins

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Business Manager Magazine Description:

The magazine is totally focused on providing HR & IR knowledge sharing platform for practicing HR professionals, academicians, Thought leaders, corporate, business executives CEOs, management professionals and labour/ legal professionals. The magazine contains thought provoking articles, a theme base cover story every month, latest court judgments in brief impacting employer employee relations, solutions to workplace problems, Govt. Notifications on labour laws, case study and analysis, management books reviews and HR news. A must read for all managers involved in people management.