Great Leaders Inspire Action with the Golden Circle

The communication style of leaders in business and community follows a style - Why, How, and What. They first appeal to your soul with a 'Why' and then give your brain details of 'How' and 'What'.

Welcome June 2012

Corporates and non-profits use calendars to advance their brands. The 2012 year calendar of NGO Pratham Books has beautiful sketches, drawings, and tips that reflect their work - educating poor kids thro picture books. Mediaadds has come out with a calendar that has a fable and management message for each month. At the beginning of the year we get so many calendars that we can hang one in each of our rooms including the bathrooms! So much for branding!

Read, Read, and Read

Everyday, a manager has to take important decisions. So, a manger has to read a lot to know the current economic, political, cultural, technology, and environmental scenarios. Daily, on an average, a good manager will read 50-100 pages of information. The source of information and data can be leading newspapers, magazines, blogs, journals, bestselling non-fiction books, and sometimes even fiction. If you don't have the habit of reading, you need to atleast listen to audiobooks. On the whole, reading is an activity that no manager can escape.

But with information explosion, one needs to have power reading skills. Improving your reading skills will help you to gather key points in a short time. Keeping reading in mind, the IMT Ghaziabad PGDM syllabus includes 'Reading Skills' module under Business Communication.

What is Blue Ocean Strategy?

Blue Ocean Strategy aims at creating new markets and not competing with existing markets. Innovate and succeed.

Tribes and Tribal Leadership

In this interesting TED video, David Logan speaks about the 5 stages of a tribe. All of us live in tribes. And we need to evolve and reach the Level 5 for maximum performance and global good.

Stage 1: People do horrible things - guns, prisons - (2%)
Stage 2: Life sucks - lack initiative, dumb - (25%)
Stage 3: I'm great, and you are not - narcissistic - (48%)
Stage 4: A team passion greater than individual competence - fun, creativity - (22%)
Stage 5: Life is Great - good values - (2%)

Who Can Opt for an One Year Management Program?

Say, you have around 5-15 years of work experience. You are a high performer. You plan to continue in your same field of work e.g electronics, construction engineering, or pharma. You want to equip yourself with a management qualification from a reputed institute - so that you are more confident in front of clients. You also feel that getting a management qualification will help your appraisals and promotion prospects.

Not sure where to take up the course? Visit myBskool. myBskool offers a recognized PGDM in Management from IMT Ghaziabad. It is a one year program. The program has interesting features. 

• Online Course - No Classess to attend
• No break from work
• Anytime, Anywhere learning.
• Widely Recognized by Leading Corporates.
• Exhaustive Study Materials
• Video lectures delivered by Management Gurus 
• Collaborative features for interaction and Social Learning 

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Jay Cross - India has to Democratize Learning Now

Informal Learning guru Jay Cross says, "India needs to train 500 million people in the next ten years. Some have proposed building thousands of new schools and colleges. Yet if the building program began in earnest tomorrow, there still wouldn’t be enough time to build the required classrooms — some six times what India has today.

What would those schools teach? The half-life of a professional skill is down to five years and is shrinking fast. It makes no sense to train people on skills that will become obsolete in short order. I’ll suggest that people need to learn meta-skills, such things as:

• learning how to learn
• critical thinking and conceptualization
• pattern recognition
• design thinking
• working with one another
• navigating complex environments
• software literacy

India has neither time nor resources to prepare teachers to transfer these skills to hundreds of millions of people. The answer? Flip Indian education. Delegate the delivery of content to electronic means, and focus teachers on coaching, leading discussions, helping people over hurdles, and relating lessons to real life. Also, teach students and workers to help teach themselves. The time is ripe for India to democratize education, to help students to think for themselves and realize their potential. "