Mr. Amit Malik, CHRO of Aviva Life Insurance Company India Ltd. and alumnus of SIBM Pune (Batch of 1999) visited campus on August 14, 2015. Looking back to his visit last year at around the same time.
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With International Women’s Day on March 8, I ponder on the state of women in the so called majestic Corporate World which enthuses one and all.
Oh God! Harsha Bhogle got the first movers advantage. He said it before I could say the same sentence. And so I’ll have to quote him saying, “I always believed that the most difficult thing in this world is to get into an IIM, however after coming here I realized that the most difficult thing is to get out of here”. We guys have to be very careful while writing something here. It has to be checked and cross-checked that the thing you are writing hasn’t been written by someone else at any other place, because here “Plagiarism is a serious offence and is looked down upon”. “The consequences may be severe” and “& it will be strictly dealt with”. You have to be vigilant at every step. Think before saying or doing anything. One can’t do things just for the sake of doing; it has to be backed by a strong reason and a rationale. Ha ha – that’s too much of a dose for a beginner or an outsider. Welcome to life@IIM-K, oops it’s “The Indian Institute Of Management Kozhikode” and very rightly we call it “God’s own Kampus”. Of course that’s not a spelling error. At IIM-K everything starts with K, and at K we call in Kampus. And beware we are very passionate about it. Once you stay at any IIM, no matter what kind of a person you are, everything is wiped off. Now you belong to that place and that tag defines you and stays with you forever. That is the power of an IIM and not only IIM-K but every other IIM. This is how they are designed and made. It’s really worth to be here, and all those aspirations and dreams and efforts do not go in vain. Step in here and you are assured that next two years of life will be well spent.
Albert Einstein once said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once”. It is then perhaps evident that events constantly happen over time and things constantly evolve and thus change. When change is so imminent and certainly constant should it be managed by conscious interventions? Perhaps there is an alternate approach and that lies in making ‘Change’ a way of life! If Organizations are dynamic enough ‘Managing change’ will happen more from the ‘sub-conscious level’ of the organization. For this to take place it is essential that constant evolution forms the very nerve of Organization, deep rooted at the ‘Tacit Assumptions’ (As Edgar Schein defines it) level of Organization culture.
The month of October witnessed the Indian e-commerce giants leaving no stone unturned to woo customers and gain a share of their wallet. The media was abuzz with news of the myriad offers and schemes that were being showered on customers. All of us, directly or indirectly, have been impacted by this rapidly escalating e-commerce competition. As marketers, we can learn a lot from this.
Ask any B-school graduate about how Kellogg’s found it hard to enter Indian market and one might get an entire account of what happened. It was indeed difficult for Kellogg’s to get inside the Indian households where breakfast tables are adorned with plates of Poha, Upma, Parantha and Dosa.
Mr. Amit Malik, CHRO of Aviva Life Insurance Company India Ltd. and alumnus of SIBM Pune (Batch of 1999) visited campus on August 14, 2015. Looking back to his visit last year at around the same time.
[caption id="attachment_56320" align="aligncenter" width="230"] Mr. Rajkumar[/caption]
With International Women’s Day on March 8, I ponder on the state of women in the so called majestic Corporate World which enthuses one and all.
Oh God! Harsha Bhogle got the first movers advantage. He said it before I could say the same sentence. And so I’ll have to quote him saying, “I always believed that the most difficult thing in this world is to get into an IIM, however after coming here I realized that the most difficult thing is to get out of here”. We guys have to be very careful while writing something here. It has to be checked and cross-checked that the thing you are writing hasn’t been written by someone else at any other place, because here “Plagiarism is a serious offence and is looked down upon”. “The consequences may be severe” and “& it will be strictly dealt with”. You have to be vigilant at every step. Think before saying or doing anything. One can’t do things just for the sake of doing; it has to be backed by a strong reason and a rationale. Ha ha – that’s too much of a dose for a beginner or an outsider. Welcome to life@IIM-K, oops it’s “The Indian Institute Of Management Kozhikode” and very rightly we call it “God’s own Kampus”. Of course that’s not a spelling error. At IIM-K everything starts with K, and at K we call in Kampus. And beware we are very passionate about it. Once you stay at any IIM, no matter what kind of a person you are, everything is wiped off. Now you belong to that place and that tag defines you and stays with you forever. That is the power of an IIM and not only IIM-K but every other IIM. This is how they are designed and made. It’s really worth to be here, and all those aspirations and dreams and efforts do not go in vain. Step in here and you are assured that next two years of life will be well spent.
Albert Einstein once said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once”. It is then perhaps evident that events constantly happen over time and things constantly evolve and thus change. When change is so imminent and certainly constant should it be managed by conscious interventions? Perhaps there is an alternate approach and that lies in making ‘Change’ a way of life! If Organizations are dynamic enough ‘Managing change’ will happen more from the ‘sub-conscious level’ of the organization. For this to take place it is essential that constant evolution forms the very nerve of Organization, deep rooted at the ‘Tacit Assumptions’ (As Edgar Schein defines it) level of Organization culture.
The month of October witnessed the Indian e-commerce giants leaving no stone unturned to woo customers and gain a share of their wallet. The media was abuzz with news of the myriad offers and schemes that were being showered on customers. All of us, directly or indirectly, have been impacted by this rapidly escalating e-commerce competition. As marketers, we can learn a lot from this.
Ask any B-school graduate about how Kellogg’s found it hard to enter Indian market and one might get an entire account of what happened. It was indeed difficult for Kellogg’s to get inside the Indian households where breakfast tables are adorned with plates of Poha, Upma, Parantha and Dosa.
