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INTERVIEW
Event Management Made Easy
-- Interview with Ruchit Garg
Event management is no longer confined to a brick-and-mortar style. eventNu.com is a
premium event portal in India which allows its users to find the best of the events happening around them.
Ruchit Garg, the founder, says it is a great online companion tool for all small and medium event
organizers who want to reach out to the masses without spending on huge infrastructure or incurring set-up
cost. They can list their events for free, create buzz by leveraging integration with several social
media platforms, and measure success rates as well. Global event managers organizing their events in
India considers eventNu.com as a unique service provider, as they can handle online transactions in
Indian rupees by virtue of their association with top Indian banks, saving money for both the organizers
and the attendees.
Ruchit Garg started his career with a telecom startup and worked on core research
products like Hindi text-to-speech system. He worked on IVR solutions, then had a small stint in
Japan, before he quit to start mobile VAS company SiliconVerse. Thereafter, he joined another
telecom company in Bangalore and created some VAS solutions, before he joined Microsoft at its
Indian development center. Currently Garg works with Microsoft at its headquarters at Redmond,
WA and moonlighting his start-up www.eventNu.com, which is an online event guide and
ticketing platform for India.
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COVER STORY
Developing Emotional Intelligence:
An Interpersonal Process in Leadership Positions
-- Paul B Carr and Paula A Tucker
Leaders of the 21st century are facing times of uncertainty and circumstances where
the emotional stability of followers is unhinged; and fear is more prevalent in organizations
globally. Managing emotions for compensation is where leaders are apparently covering up, or
suppressing emotions in order to modify the emotional expression of followers. In times of uncertainty,
leaders should seek to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI). This article discusses and
examines the interpersonal process of EI, which could assist leaders in assuaging the feelings of
followers where they might be emotional at any given moment. One premise of this article is to offer
the reader an opportunity to think about developing EI as an interpersonal process—one that
could enhance leader-follower relationship as it relates to understanding and managing emotions.
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COVER STORY
Developing Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leadership
and Management
-- Bahaudin G Mujtaba and Belal A Kaifi
Competitive organizations demand caring and appreciative leaders who believe in change,
innovate continuously, build relationships, and stress the importance of unity and collaboration. In the past,
organizations selected their leaders exclusively based upon Intelligence Quotient (IQ) levels. Today, leaders
are selected based on their Emotional Intelligence (EI) levels. This article discusses EI for effective
leadership and management. Based on their past experiences and writings, the authors offer suggestions on
what managers and leaders can do to develop higher EI.
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B-SCHOOLS
Management Education: An Overview Using McKinsey's 7-S Framework
-- R Alamelu
The shift of a manager's role in the 21st century provides the context of the quality challenges
faced by management schools. There are several challenges of management education, which require change
in the character and structure of management education and integration of management education with
the corporate sector.
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B-SCHOOLS
Indian B-Schools: Issues and Challenges
-- Hory Sankar Mukerjee
Except for the top 50 institutes in the country and barring another handful, the quality of a
B-School education remains a cause for serious concern. Even amongst the top schools in our country, there
are issues which affect the `bigger picture' of management education in India. The schools which should
have led the world with their research are embroiled in a number of issues, which have no connection to
the world of management education. The issues can be very simple, medium or complex. Somewhere
it involves the regulatory bodies, government, and sometimes it involves individuals and business
school management.
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MENTORING LEADERSHIP
What Kind of a Leader Will You Be?
-- Didier Marlier
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MBA CURRICULUM
Toward Sustainable Change
-- Judith Samuelson
To teach students how to operate in today's volatile world, business schools must integrate
social innovation and sustainability into their core curriculums.
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Essentials of a Good Leader:
A Perspective
-- Ronnie O Rice and Kathleen Patterson
This article provides the answer to an age old question, "What makes a good leader?" This
question is nothing new, as most people desire to be good leaders and good at leadership; and yet, the
challenge does exist to know what essentials are needed in pursuit of this idea of `good' leadership. A person
who seeks to be a good leader will model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable
others to act, and encourage the heart—all the while keeping in view the larger picture of appreciating
globalness and embracing diversity.
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CAREER PLANNING
MBA:
A Perfect Professional Tag
-- Vissapragada Srinivas
Business principles are immensely useful to grow and prosper in life, but MBA program is
designed for people who plan to step into the business world. Of late, MBA has become a value added tool
for those who want to accelerate their career and gain innovative business ideas. In many instances,
MBAs have proved that they were the real leaders and icons for business success.
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Business Goals and Social Expectations
-- Samta Jain and Namrata Mehta
Business decision makers must be high at valuing the ethical issues and resolving the conflicts
which are related to their profit and consumer expectations and satisfaction. They should be conscious about
the potential conflict between pragmatism and sustainability. All must understand that there is an
inextricable linkage between social and economic relations as the economic goals are deeply rooted in the
social structures.
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DECISION MAKING
Behavioral Finance Principles:
Implications in Decision Making
-- Tarak Paul
This article aims to highlight the factors that influence investors' decision making.
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BOOK REVIEW
Coaching Corporate MVPs
-- Author: Margaret Butteriss
Reviewed by Geetha V Sharma
The book examines the talent crunch prevalent in organizations that could deplete the
knowledge repository, leading to business losses. An apparent solution to this risk is to nurture fresh talent pool
by identifying employees who have the potential to perform exceptionally well. The author terms these
individuals as Most Valuable Performers (MVPs). She furnishes details about the coaching issues involved
in developing MVPs and sketches effective models to resolve the problems therein.
© 2008 Right Management. All Rights Reserved. The IUP holds the copyright for the review.
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