ContraMinds Timeless Wisdom - Kumar Vembu - Culture is Engineered, not Announced (Ep02)

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In this episode, Swami discusses with Kumar Vembu how organizations can intentionally design their culture to sustain employability.

Let's know what you liked and learnt! In this episode of the ContraMinds Timeless Wisdom series, Swami revisits his conversation with Kumar Vembu to explore how organisations can be intentionally designed to sustain employability. At the heart of the discussion is a powerful idea: culture is not an intention—it is the outcome of how work, stress, emotion, and decision-making are engineered. Drawing from his experience at GoFrugal Technologies and earlier at Zoho, Kumar explains how measuring...

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Host: Swami

Guest: Kumar Vembu

Topics covered

• organizational culture
• employability
• work engineering
• stress management
• decision-making

Keywords

• culture
• employability
• work
• stress
• decision-making
• engineering
• Kumar Vembu

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GoFrugal Technologies, Zoho

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