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Values Help in Doing Bigger Things Mr. N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys shared his thoughts on challenges facing entrepreneurs and companies at the Times Literature Festival in Bangalore recently. Edited Excerpts: When an entrepreneur retires he hands over the baton to people who haven’t started the company, do you believ…

http://managementnext.com/hr-speak/building-leadership-pipeline-jindal-steel-style/

Building Leadership Pipeline Jindal Steel Style Rajeev Bhadauria, Director, Group HR, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd., on the imperative to build leadership capacity at all levels of an organization Today, we don’t require programmed thinking managers; we require business leaders with an understanding of self, with an understanding of managing others,…

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Only Transcendent Leaders Can Bring About Real Change Leadership vacuum in countries and in organizations has become a major cause for chaos and uncertainty these days. This is because they have been led largely by transactional leaders. A few lucky ones have transformational leaders who are able to move ahead but they too fall short when they are requ…

http://managementnext.com/magazine/guru-mantra/jagdish-sheths-magic-mantra-for-500b-indian-it-by-2020/

Jagdish Sheth’s Magic Mantra for $500b Indian IT by 2020 Prof. Jagadish Sheth is optimistic of the Indian information technology sector reaching $500 billion revenue by 2020 only if organizations become more marketing and customer centric. In a chat with Benedict Paramanand, he suggests that CEOs could read his book ‘Customers for Life’ for some inspirati…

http://managementnext.com/magazine/cover-story/is-the-management-guru-business-dying/

Is the Management Guru Business Dying? Are business icons eclipsing the halo of famous management gurus? Do the rising sales of business biographies, both print and digital, and plummeting sales of business books support the above hypothesis? Conferences addressed by business leaders are usually full while organizers are fi nding it very…

http://managementnext.com/walking-the-talk/a-good-person-can-win/

A Good Person CAN Win One of the biggest dilemmas an employee, executive or an entrepreneur faces in real life, particularly in India, is – will I be able to survive and move ahead by being a good person. With the country’s ranking in ‘ease of doing business’ one of the worst at 142 in the world, and Transparency Interna…

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Value for Many, Value for Money Dr Kurien’s standard line to every Amul employee was: “Our first duty is to India; our second duty is to farmers and especially to the poorest in rural society; our third duty is to our institution – and our last duty, always, is to ourselves.” I once asked Dr. Kurien what were the most important qu…

The Gen Z Effect – Say Good Bye To Generational Divide The Gen Z Effect on business could be as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall on world politics. In a way, it is the fall of the barrier between generations brought about by another revolution – technology. This revolution could put an end to the muchtouted generation gap in work-places, among communi…