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COVER
STORY
Entrepreneurship
: An Alternative Career Option
--
Indranil Banerjee
For
a considerable period of time securing employment was the
sole objective for everybody. The population strongly believed
that to showcase talent one must be on company payrolls. Developing
a business, by and large, was a second choice as a career
option. But the new economy, business model, technology and
education system have created a complete paradigm shift in
people's thought processes. The new generation is actively
coming out to develop something for itself. The upsurge in
entrepreneurial affinity is not just happening in isolation;
rather, it is the outcome of several reasons. This article
attempts to highlight those reasons and the en route challenges.
If ably supported, the entrepreneurial initiative can boost
the economy too.
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COVER
STORY
Entrepreneurial
Skills for Youth
-- MS Rao
Presently,
the Indian youth are facing two problems-one is lack of soft
skills and the second is lack of entrepreneurial skills. This
article focuses on the causes of the same and how to develop
these skills. The concept of KASH, which stands for Knowledge,
Attitude, Skills and Habits, is highlighted in this context.
In the end, it calls upon the youth to develop both their
leadership and entrepreneurial skills for the growth of our
nation.
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CAREER
PLANNING
Job
Interviews Mastering the Required Skills
-- V Padmaja
A
job interview is the most `dreaded' event in the life of an
individual. There is no fixed procedure or one `best' way
to go through an interview. The mantra for success in interviews
is how well the candidate is able to project himself. This
article focuses on the importance of displaying one's inherent
and acquired skills meticulously at the time of interview.
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PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT
Orientation
Program for Freshers A Road Less Travelled
-- Bholanath Dutta
An
effective Orientation Program (OP) helps students to get familiarized
with the campus, course curriculum, facilities, practices
and different processes. During orientation, students get
an opportunity to interact and make friends, adjust to the
new surroundings and even sign up for various activities and
events. It helps to instill team spirit among the new batch
and inculcate a sense of discipline in the future managers
and offer them the best orientation to the new academic environment.
It helps students design an action plan during the two years
of program. Most of the B-Schools organize OPs with a very
short-sighted objective and don't understand its multiple
benefits. Poorly organized programs can create lot of suspicion
and misunderstanding amongst students. This article discusses
the importance of OP, reorientation, designing and a sample
OP schedule.
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PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT
Negotiation
Skills : A Core Management Skill
-- Annam Anand
Effective
negotiation helps people resolve conflicts. Despite the fact
that negotiating is a vital skill, most students are taught
nothing about it in B-Schools.
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EDUCATION
Mobile
Learning : The Dawn of a New Era
-- Indranil Banerjee
For a considerable period of time securing employment
was the sole objective for everybody. The population strongly
believed that to showcase talent one must be on company payrolls.
Developing a business, by and large, was a second choice as
a career option. But the new economy, business model, technology
and education system have created a complete paradigm shift
in people's thought processes. The new generation is actively
coming out to develop something for itself. The upsurge in
entrepreneurial affinity is not just happening in isolation;
rather, it is the outcome of several reasons. This article
attempts to highlight those reasons and the en route challenges.
If ably supported, the entrepreneurial initiative can boost
the economy too.
© 2008 IUP . All Rights Reserved
TECHNOLOGY
Blogs
Express Yourself
-- D Suryachandra Rao
Blog
is not a brand new concept, but is in vogue since the advent
of the Internet. Though it is in the introductory stage of
its life cycle, there has been a phenomenal growth in the
recent past. This article throws light on this emerging concept,
its evolution and its purpose. It also analyzes various types
of blogs, and finds out specific advantages and emerging threats
to the same.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Current
Trends in Management
-- N Sivasankaran and R Arasu
Businesses,
today, are functioning in a highly intensified competitive
environment, which calls for innovative solutions such that
the problems are foreseen and solutions are visualized and
planned in advance. This requires a change in the objective
of a business unit besides identifying and adopting the successful
lessons from peers and self- experimentations. This article
presents some of the important trends which are adopted by
successful companies in managing their business.
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GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
Management
Thoughts from the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata
-- P Uma Maheswari
The
Indian epic Mahabharata is a great source of management ideas.
It is the story of the great battle between the Pandavas and
the Kauravas. This Battle of Kurukshetra can also be viewed
as a conflict between good and evil, in which God, in the
form of Lord Krishna, guided the Pandavas in each and every
action and directed them to victory. Each and every plan and
word of Lord Krishna is more or less similar to today's management
concepts. This article is an attempt to review some such concepts
immortalized in the Holy Gita and the Mahabharata.
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INTERVIEW
iCall
Solutions
-- MP Vishali
Captain
Shekar, as he is fondly called, studied in Central Schools
in Delhi and Hyderabad. A commerce graduate from Osmania University
and a management graduate from Symbiosis, he started his professional
career in the Indian Army. He founded iCall Solutions, a Staffing
Company, in Bangalore and is responsible for recruitment of
IT professionals across various verticals and technology groups.
Captain Shekar has been a basketball and volleyball player
since his college days. He led his college cricket team in
the Inter-University competitions. His favorite pastimes are
reading books and listening to ghazals.
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BOOK
REVIEW
A
Class with Drucker : The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest
Management Teacher
-- R Venkatesan lyengar
William
Cohen, a student of Peter Drucker, uses his recollections
and classroom notes to recount how Drucker, the father of
modern management, taught his students in the classroom. The
book, which contains Cohen's reminiscences of the four years
that he spent listening to and interacting with Drucker, not
only offers us a glimpse of how the great master imparted
his timeless wisdom to his students, but also provides Cohen's
observations on how one can apply Drucker's teachings to better
one's personal as well as professional life.
© 2008 William A Cohen. All Rights Reserved. IUP holds the copyright for the review.
ACHIEVER'S
CORNER
`MBA
Sabziwala' Man on a Mission
-- MP Vishali
IIM
graduates daring to decline campus placement opportunities
and starting their own ventures are no longer great news these
days. But when one IIM graduate sells vegetables on the streets
with a bigger dream to build a vegetable hub of India, it's
indeed praiseworthy. Especially, when the person is an IIM,
Ahmedabad topper.
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