Sometimes, in our lives, serendipity hits us out of nowhere, and two totally unrelated things can synergize beautifully to perform a perfect pattern. On the one hand, I was busy reading ‘The Future of HR’ and on the other, my daughter’s wish to keep two now-obsolete notes (one each) of Rs.500 & Rs.1000 as a token of India’s historical demonetization move, made me ponder on the momentous events our country’s economy is going through at present – demonetization of high value currency denomination notes for ‘The Future of India’. (A matter of conjecture, perhaps). But can there really be a correlation between things as disparate as HR and Demonetization, given that other countries are also following suit? This is again a subject of our perspectives, and if we take a moment to evaluate the purpose of demonetization, there can be striking parallels in both of these entirely different phenomena. My quick thoughts on this:
1. Skills, like currency, are also prone...
