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EGM INSPIRATIONS - Engage | InspireBoldness for ChristSend us a textI want you to know that God is not looking for your theological degree or how many masters you have in theology. You may not have big titles, but do you have a genuine burning heart to serve God? Can you humble yourself to God and welcome the power of the Holy Spirit in your life? In the coming days, you will shake your country with the Gospel by saving millions of souls from the darkness of this world to the wonderful light of Jesus Christ like Peter and John. elohimgospelministries.c...2025-06-1806 min

EGM INSPIRATIONS - Engage | InspireYou are the John of Your GenerationSend us a textDon't miss the opportunity God has given you to draw people closer to God. John prepared a way for Jesus Christ, and now it's our turn to prepare the way for the second coming of Jesus Christ. It doesn't matter what's your limitations because your limitation is not God's limitation. The life of John tells us that God can use us beyond our limitations. elohimgospelministries.com 2024-04-1506 min

Building Holistic CompaniesBoard of Directors: What does ‘good’ look like?Effective boards are a foundational necessity for a well-run company. Conversely, a weak board opens a company and its stakeholders to significant risks. An ineffective board leaves a company's prospects to chance due to the group's passive, inexperienced, or biased nature. Board development focuses on convenience rather than effectiveness too often. So, let’s explore how we would build an effective board. ⁠Read the article here⁠. Author: ⁠John Oommen⁠.2023-12-2020 min

Building Holistic CompaniesThe Productivity Crisis series: Employee guide to predict and avoid layoffsUnlike previous economic crises, sustained government policies have masked the ill effects of long-term easy monetary policy. As government tools that hide these effects weaken, hard-working people will face a rough transition in their employment relationships. Transparency and predictability are the most basic expectations in any relationship, including an employment contract. Avoiding ecosystems prone to suboptimal outcomes with personal and professional costs is optimal. Minimally, it is prudent to predict involuntary separations to minimize impact. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2023-08-3123 min

Building Holistic CompaniesThe Productivity Crisis series: Rediscover investment effectiveness to exit The Productivity CrisisInvestors, CEOs, executives, supervisors, and all spend approvers must develop an objective investment effectiveness mindset to reverse their companies' productivity challenges. The first lever to drive productivity improvements is to embrace an opt-in mindset to curb wasteful investments. The second lever is to optimize human capital investment, which involves a fundamentals-focused recalibration of our labor force towards customer-centric work, skill-focused staffing, and reintroduction of up-skilling and performance management. An ability to connect every investment dollar to tangible intrinsic value creation for internal and external customers will characterize companies that can profitably and sustainably grow. Read the article here. 2023-06-2119 min

Building Holistic CompaniesDigest #103: Enable top players to thrive and encourage competition to build market-leading companiesOrganizations that manage for the middle use likability factors to measure success. It results in a skill drain and encourages mediocrity even among highly competent individuals. Companies that strive to lead their space invest in proactively identifying, hiring, and spotlighting individuals with strong competencies, deep skills, and high-quality experience from a customer value creation lens. They also build a system to enable these top players to succeed and encourage others to raise their game. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2023-06-1308 min

LeadTalksHope in the Hills: Dr. John Oommen’s Journey as a Doctor in BissamcuttackDr. John Oommen's compelling story of his decades-long service to the tribal people of Bissamcuttack, Odisha, is an inspiration to all. In this talk, he shares three important stories from his life, along with the valuable lessons he has learned along the way. Through his work as a community medicine doctor in Orrisa's tribal districts, Dr. Oommen has demonstrated a deep sense of compassion and dedication towards serving the underprivileged. His experiences have taught him the importance of empathy and the rewards of making a positive difference in people's lives, even in the face of great challenges. Throughout the video...2023-06-0923 min

Building Holistic CompaniesThe Productivity Crisis series: Have roles & seniority decoupled from skills & experience? An organizational self-assessment.We are experiencing The Productivity Crisis worldwide, as companies and individuals. The predicament results from the easy money era of the last decade. Cost insensitivity, followed by investment ineffectiveness, set off The Productivity Crisis domino. Poor organizational designs, over-staffing, seniority and pay inflation, and decoupling of skill from employment rewards formed the domino that epitomizes this crisis. Self-diagnosing our organizations for this domino will set us up for remedial actions. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2023-06-0424 min

Building Holistic CompaniesDigest #102: “AI” exploration is a test of human critical thinking | Not a test of “artificial intelligence”Given recent excitement and apprehension around “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) triggered by the public release of ChatGPT, the popular platform powered by OpenAI’s algorithm, we must parse reality from sensation and prepare for pretenders jumping in to clutter the powerful and dangerous space. Internalizing what really constitutes “AI”, what can “AI” really do for us, and what should scare us will simplify the conversation. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen 2023-04-0712 min

Building Holistic CompaniesDigest #101: Necessity to Relearn Risk ManagementMarch 2023 has been a month of banking turbulence in the United States and Europe. It was triggered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). I have been thinking about these events and the history of affected companies and the sector. I want to share some key takeaways. Read the complete article. Author: John Oommen 2023-03-3108 min

Bellefonte Presbyterian Church – SermonsBe an Evangelist Like Jesus | John 4:1-30 - Rev. Shibu OommenProposition: Since Jesus is our great example of an evangelist, let us follow in his steps. Background and setting, vs. 1-6 Jesus connects with a stranger, vs. 7-9 Jesus extends the gift of God, vs. 10-15 Jesus examines her heart, vs. 16-19 Jesus explains true worship, vs. 20-24 Jesus reveals himself, vs. 25-26 She engages to a new purpose, vs. 28-30 2023-02-2746 min

Building Holistic CompaniesHolistic Companies series: Why must we build holistic companies?We need a cohesive and comprehensive definition of a 'good' company. The lack of such a definition and its broad acceptance gives rise to dysfunctional behaviors within the concept of companies which is as natural to all of us as air and water. A holistic company satisfies all the intended conditions of a capitalistic enterprise while avoiding the most common form of its mutation - capital engineering. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2022-07-1319 min

Building Holistic CompaniesThe Productivity Crisis series: What is capital engineering and why is it unproductive?Growth-at-any-cost era, spurred on by easy-money for fifteen years, is over. We turned a great and necessary idea of privately funded companies into an unproductive, artificially inflated asset class. Let’s internalize the harmful distortions caused by the pervasive tendency to focus on capital engineering. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2022-05-2426 min

Building Holistic CompaniesOperational Enablers series: How should we prioritize investment to enable customer stickiness?Many companies have built their businesses around recurring revenue models that determine everything from company valuations to employee compensation. Stickiness is the lifeblood of such a business model. Losing focus on aspects that truly impact stickiness risks losing the entire plot. Almost every sustainably growing company has one common factor—they directly inject value into a critical operational component within the customers’ journey. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2022-02-0913 min

Building Holistic CompaniesStrategic Planning series: What is unique about your solution and how does it align with your strengths?The crux of a strategic plan is the firm articulation of how we solve the market problem using our unique strengths and how those strengths will be evolved to deliver our solution sustainably. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2021-10-0509 min

Building Holistic CompaniesStrategic Planning series: How will you reset to accommodate macroscopic disrupters?Macroscopic factors may not influence the short-term valuation or value creation ability of a company if they do not come to pass immediately. But when they eventually transpire, there won’t be a rock to hide under if we do not prepare a company for it. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2021-09-2712 min

Who do we think we are?TRAILER: Who do we think we are?Who do we think we are? is a podcast focussed on the conversations we need to be having about British citizenship today. It tells the story of how British citizenship developed and why this matters for questions of migration, citizenship and belonging in Britain today. The trailer identifies some of the issues covered in the series, from the removal of birthright citizenship through the British Nationality Act 1981 to how Britain was made as a white nation-state through immigration and nationality legislation. The episode features contributors to the series Gurminder Bhambra, Devyani Prabhat, Elsa Oommen, Imogen Tyler, John Vassiliou and...2021-09-2206 min

Building Holistic CompaniesStrategic Planning series: Will you redefine your people agenda to focus on customers?A company’s people agenda dictates how it delivers value to customers. An effective strategic plan will frame an approach to dovetail the company’s people to behaviors customers consider valuable. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2021-09-1912 min

Building Holistic CompaniesStrategic Planning series: What is your company-level intent - operate or exit?A company’s strategy and plan entirely depend on the ownership time horizon of majority shareholders. An effective strategic plan creates accountability by affirming our intentions and communicating our game plan to all stakeholders affected by ownership changes. Read the article here. Author: John Oommen.2021-09-0812 min

Soundtracks, Jingles and Music ProductionSilent Screams | ROCK Song (Orchestrator: Jon Brooks)I orchestrated Silent Screams back in 2006 for the Malaysian rock band Silent Scream (which then became Paperplane Pursuit). John O and Reshmonu contacted me whilst working in-house at WASP Studios and we worked on a couple of tracks together. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/jonbrookscomposer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonBrooksComposer SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jonbrooks-1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonbrookscomposer TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonbrookscomposer Website: http://www.jonbrooks.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonBrooks_Music This music is subject to copyright and is provided for demonstration/showreel purposes only. (© 2006 John Oommen, Silent Scream).2007-05-0504 min