Man Ni Tarango (The Waves of Mind)

1. Introduction: Management education has come a long way in India since its introduction in 60, with the starting of IIM-A. Today, around 1400+ B-Schools exist in India. They may be university departments, self-financed affiliated colleges, private colleges which are not government/AICTE approved and so on. Even foreign universities have been opening their campuses at metros like Bangalore. Any educational institute, may of any given discipline, cannot exist without good faculty members. Although, good infrastructure, good PR, good management etc. play a very important role, if the institute does not have good faculty members, then it cannot generate sustainable growth and in some cases, it may not even survive. Now a days, we find many well designed B-Schools, with very good building, library, computer labs and all the other abilities. But, when you check the availability of the faculty, not all of them have competent ones. What is the reason for this? Why do the premier institutes l...

Mobile Viruses- Have They Arrived? ***Background*** The era of Mobile Banking and SMS marketing has arrived. At this juncture, when computers and mobile are becoming synonyms, let us try to have a "vision" into the future and have a look at how the start of mobile virus can spread! ***Introduction*** Today, the world is on our fingertips. We have Internet, which is regarded as YOUR WINDOW TO THE WORLD. We have Computers….something; I need not elaborate much about! But, as Isaac Asimov says, "In human affairs we have reached a point where the problems that we must solve are no longer solvable without the aid of the computers. I fear not computers but the lack of them." Now the time has come when, the Internet technology, the mobile/cell phones and the computers are not going to be regarded as SEPARATE entities anymore! MOBILE VIRUSES ARE COMING HOW AND WHY THEY ARE HERE? Recently, I received some 100 continuous messages from an unknown number. Whenever I opened the s...

Now a days, I've been experimenting with my teaching, and under that, I've introduced a new subject at my University named ETHICS AND VALUES IN MANAGEMENT. Though this is a typical area of Management, I felt that it touches all of us somewhere in our lives. If we put aside all the theoretical views of Ethics, the simplest definition that emerges of it would be, "Something that is RIGHT for the MAXIMUM number of people". Recently in my professional life, I've seen a lot of mal-practices or say, unethical practices. I was pretty upset by them. I saw many people reaching the heights just with some unethical practices while I had to take a long rout to reach the same height. At this point of time, I know of people who did not deserve the success, yet they MANAGED it. It really made me mad at times. I also saw people playing with others [using others/manipulate others-ah whatever!], for their personal achievement. I also saw people not delivering their promise[sss]. I ...