Next three sessions were by Mr. Sumant Bakshi (advisor, MYRA),Mr. Chakravarty E S (Center head- Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore) and Dr. Wolfgang Messner (Professor of international business, MYRA). Sumant told us about do’s and don’ts w.r.t. packaging ourselves for the corporate world and how to co-ordinate with MYRA placement cell. Mr. Chakravathy, popularly known as ‘Chaks’, gave us an overview of it industry telling us about Customer priorities, technology trends in IT industry and other technological trends. Chaks talking in a very friendly and open manner guided us about what to do in MBA and how to build our brand. Dr. Messner guided us about successful business networking, growing opportunities as well as competition, what a company looks for? , what opportunities do we have?, and ‘tips and traps of a small talk’.
On Thursday 25th June, we went on an adventure trip, organized in collaboration with National Adventure Foundation. We did activities like trekking, rappelling, zip line, jummering and country rafting. We did kayaking and played adventure team building games too. The location for this outing was full of nature and we enjoyed a lot.
Next three sessions were by Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar (Associate dean & Director of Research, MYRA),combined session by Mr. Ganesh Shenoy K ( AVP-Human Resource, Sonata Software) & Mr. Sayinath A.G (Head- Solutioning & Pre-Sales, Sonata Software),and session by Mr. Ravikumar ( Founder, Maverick Edutech Private Limited). Dr. Sarkar in his session ‘Getting to Top: Talent, Opportunity, Passion, told us about how to find our strengths and weaknesses and what could be the possible steps to work on them. He also told us about what it takes to be a kind of leader one wants to be.
Mr. Ganesh and Mr. Sainath told us about realizing our strengths and working on them to achieve success. Mr. Ravikumar an IIM-A graduate and now an entrepreneur shared his journey from IIM A to creating his company Maverick Edutech. He told us that it’s not about Talent, It’s about attitude and it’s not about an idea, it’s about execution. He told us that hunger for success is the most important quality for an entrepreneur.
Next three sessions were by MYRA alumni - a combined session by Shivshankar (consultant, financial services, Infosys global consulting) and Mr. Rajesh Gaurav (Practice lead-Analytics, NxtGen Data Center). Rajesh and Shiv shared with us their experiences, and emphasised on professionalism. They also told us what corporate world expects from us.
The concluding day was the valedictory session by Mr. Thimmaiah NP (Managing Director & CEO India, Meritor Commercial Vehicle India Pvt. Ltd.) and a session by Dr. Shalini R Urs (Chairperson, MYRA). Mr. Thimmaiah also emphasized about attitude, hard work, willingness to learn, willingness to ignore, and the value of relationship management. He also guided us to handle real life conflicts in organisations and how to lead in a systematic way.
Dr. Shalini told us about ten sutras of management. She also interpreted the meaning of MYRA logo. Having Gandhiji as her idol, she told us how she heard everybody cribbing about the lack of quality education and decided to be the change she wanted to see in society by founding MYRA.
There were lifelong lessons to learn, moments to enjoy, opportunities to network, and memories to cherish. There is so much to tell that I would have written a book but I have tried to be as concise as possible. Thanks again to all the MYRA people for giving us a rocking start to our stint at MYRA. Cheers ….
Anurag Srivastava (PGDM 2015-17)
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