Nitte School Of Management

Anyone can write!   Just write to be a writer. Just sing and you are the one. I am addressing these statements to my dear students. Trust me, thousand miles journey begins with your first step. It is step after step … into a million steps.   Did you just wonder standing in the corner of a library as to how those thousands of books with millions of words were ever written?   Would you like to end up reading others books and keep wondering?   Why don’t you give a try and even more, write yourself? Graham Greene, one of the influential writers and novelists of 20 th century once said, ’I often wonder how all those who do not write, paint or compose can escape the madness which is inherent in human condition’.   The urge and ability to write, paint, design, sing, dance and a host of others is there in all of us deep down. Some of us make it happen during lifetime and yet some of us reach graveyard with so much of music still left in us! Let us tak...

‘Memory Is Mother of Wisdom’ Being able to recall at ease does not come to us that easily. It calls for a certain disciplined way of listening, making notes and working on the content backwards.   For students with narrow attention span, recall capabilities are hard to come by. It therefore has to be worked on over a period of time. I have seen students struggling in examination halls having to recall even two out of ten points. Why does it happen?   Can we overcome this weakness for memorizing the things? Is there a way out?   Yes, there are many ways to strengthen your recall power.   Once you commit yourself on the following lines, it is more likely that you will find it difficult to forget!   Harry Lorayne is credited to be the greatest memory master who the world will not forget.   In one of the workshops that he led, someone in the audience challenged him,’ Now that we are all introduced to you and that you have a list of all names, can you...

For all of us and more particularly students, willingness to ASK  questions and SEEK  clarification is the sine qua non of good learning and effective participation.   Students need to be trained on the art of listening, questioning and participation. Consider for a while that you are the head of an educational institution and that in one of the guest lectures, the speaker invites questions and that your students don’t open their mouth!   How would you feel if especially while leaving that speaker makes a special mention of this development! (Or no development!). Well, we cannot blame on our students.   We need train them and invite them into doing these more frequently than not. Isidor Isaac (1898-1966), Nobel laureate was once asked about his educational abilities and the person behind that. Without batting an eye lid the great man said ‘It is my mother who seeded in me these abilities. Every day on returning from school I faced this question from...

Business Analytics: Jump into the bandwagon the day one… Corporates and organizations talk about, these days, business analytics like never before. It is a buzz word in the labyrinths of business houses and not being able to have a few talking points on analytics you will not be taken kindly! This is the need of the hour and that every management student must acclimatize himself/herself with this new domain knowledge from the beginning of the management course.   How is it possible? Think, feel and talk in terms of analytics and analysis as if your future hinges on it. Look at every financial and banking news as if you have to analyze them and present to someone this evening itself!     Two words – business analytics and business analysis - say enough about why they will always be relevant. While business analytics, by way of statistical methods, forms part of projects, processes and products and focuses more on indicating future trends, business analysis helps you...

‘Ten Commandments’ for Management Students It is not enough if you have great qualities; you need have a great management of them too. In a span of two years, a management student may study about 30 independent subjects in Indian context. Looking at the volume of inputs that goes into the management course , it is well nigh impossible to assimilate that voluminous text all in one frame of time.   You can add value to your management education by valuing the following aspects/pursuits. Follow the content as a story and even enjoy it! When a new area of knowledge is introduced, force yourself into considering it as precious and important. Be in touch with news items touching upon your subject. Your text is not up to date but news that provide context is!  Jot down talking points that you come across in dailies, news channels and other sources. Participate and make your presence felt. Make every session an event to participate. Ask questions, seek clarification...

Executive PGDM:  A shot in the arm for aspiring professionals Many a brilliant graduate may have joined their dream companies leaving behind aspirations for a master degree in management.   Once you start working you get into hum drum of corporate life with no time to reflect back or think ahead. Many professionals with excellent academic record do not flex themselves further once they find their feet in work place. We have to question this status quo syndrome and break ourselves free to do what we always wanted to do.   Resolve today that you will live your dream every day and every way.   Abraham Maslow once said,’ If you settle for anything less than what you can be, you will repent the rest of your life’. Executive PGDM is one such management course which every working professional ought to take up at the earliest. It costs you not really much but helps you grow professionally like never before. Today IIMs are also in the race in offering Executive PGDM...

When it comes to seeking admission for a full-time management course, the confusion among parents and students calls for clarity. Being a senior professor for well over 12 years and having taught both MBA and PGDM students for at least half the time each, I see sense and substance in both the courses. I have seen my students in either of these two streams doing extremely well in terms of job prospects, pay package, employability and job satisfaction. Students who are industrious will do well in any industry!  As Abraham Maslow once quipped,’ If you have a hammer in the hand you will see every object as a nail’. To be equipped for future is a matter of an individual choice and commitment and in that sense a management course is as good by any other name.  However, I see PGDM course stealing a march over MBA in the following areas: PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) is designed and driven by the Institute offering it. The name of the Institute and its im...