During my 3 decades of corporate life, I encountered many types of managers, many of whom left me frustrated, disillusioned and disenchanted! I am sharing 11 types of such managers who had this effect on me:
The world today is full of uncertainty, surprises and unforeseen challenges. A term often related to such a situation of uncertainty and ambiguity is VUCA. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and was first coined by the U.S Army war college to describe the complex and ambiguous situations during the cold war. VUCA can be used to describe general situations as well as situations related to the business world. Today’s business scenario has become highly unpredictable. Customer preferences and requirements keep changing. In other words, businesses today operate in a VUCA environment. The situation requires the managers to be on their toes - alert and awake.
When I left my hometown (Samastipur, Bihar) for embarking on my 2- year PGDM journey at LIBA, Chennai, I never knew that I will fall in love with my new home within a month. But that is how LIBA is. It grows on you.
As the world celebrated third international yoga day with a positive and enthusiastic spirit, it was also observed with the same passion at Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi. This day was on its own a key day for FMS as we were welcoming the new MBA Full Time Batch of 2019, and we were marking the beginning of a new era at FMS under our new Dean Dr Sunita Singh Sengupta. As our honourable dean says “there is nothing more spiritual to start the induction programme than celebrating International Yoga Day”.
Mr. Avinash Saurabh, co-founder of Zoojoo.BE, a corporate health and wellness start-up, was invited by IMT Hyderabad to share his valuable insights with students earlier this month.
Getting selected to IIM Ranchi, one of the premier b-schools in India is euphoric itself, but then the real challenge begins when you have to mix, work and compete with the best all at the same time.
As the train left Rourkela station on 16th of june, 2017, there wasn’t a tiny bit of sadness on my parents’ face. There was but a whole ocean of pride, easily discernible. Their son was going to an IIM, the nearest one to home. “Make sure you come home on alternate weekends, beta”, were the last words I heard my mother say before the train noisily dragged out of the station.
