Corporate Executives and Values
2013
The sales function in most organisations is often in the horns of a moral dilemma. Sales people have a moral obligation to represent the interests of their employer. They should also protect their self-interests, and thus may be obligated not to reveal what all they know. At the same time, they...
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Few people may know that the literal meaning of the Greek word, philanthropy, is love of mankind. Philanthropy is thus based on broader humanitarian principles, encompassing any altruistic activity intended to serve others.
While charity focuses on solving or mitigating a current problem, or...
It is a common experience; as we step into some companies and interact with the managers and staff as customers, suppliers, or in any other role, there is a feeling of happiness and satisfaction, though the outcome of the visit might not be in line with our expectation. With some other companies,...
As an academic, one thing that saddens me immensely is the tendency on the part of many youngsters today to find shortcuts to success.
In a recent incident, about ten students of different engineering colleges in Hyderabad were caught in a major ‘answer script fraud.’ They had...
Today’s young graduates know Newton’s laws of motion, but not the four noble truths of the Buddha. They can read the Say’s Law of Market but are not aware of the havoc that unbridled greed creates (sub-prime crisis). This has resulted in lop-sided development. The consequences...
2012
“The price of Greatness is responsibility.”
--Winston Churchill
God has blessed all human beings with a capacity to cope with different challenges appropriately. It is a sense of responsibility that propels individuals and nations forward. Those who have a high sense of...
Life is not always smooth sailing. We face adversity some time or other. It is true of individuals and institutions.
In the Purana, Prahlada, the pious son of Hiranyakasipu, a demon king, was tortured by his father, who bore malice towards God and put his son through endless struggle for his faith...
The leading management guru, Gary Hamel, is a vocal advocate of managing oneself in business. He says that in any enterprise, countless hours are spent by team leaders, department heads, and senior executives to supervise the work of others. Most managers may be hard working, but they have to...
Striving to achieve “a proper work-life balance” is almost a new fashion statement by young managers in the competitive and demanding modern working environment. Work-life balance is a concept requiring prioritising between an employee’s career ambition and his “lifestyle...
Mentoring the managers in business organisations is a relatively new pheno-menon, taking cue from the practice that mainly originated in the United States in the 1970s. It is now a growing business worldwide with a large number of firms offering ‘professional mentoring support.’ Jack...
