The seminar will be conducted on the theme of Competing in a Flat World: Operations Management Perspective. According to the information shared by XIMB with MBAUniverse.com, The objective of the seminar is to identify and understand the role that operations management has played in helping businesses survive and prosper in this changing environment.

Mr Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO, Rediff.com inspired the students and executives with his views on entrepreneurship.

In his address, Mr Balakrishnan said, To be a successful entrepreneur today you need to think big, act quickly and innovate using high end technology. Mr. Balakrishnan believed that the youth of today is capable of building a bigger and better India.

The Courses will benefit Working executives as well as Self-employed Graduates and are offered through Everonns Education centres across India. As part of the arrangement, two programmes will be launched immediately, and more programmes will follow, informed IIM Indore.

The Agreement was signed by Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh, Director, IIM Indore and Mr. P. Kishore, Managing Director, Everonn Systems India Limited, Chennai at the IIM Indore campus on August 18.

IIM Calcutta held the celebration with traditional gaiety and much enthusiasm.

The Think Odisha Leadership Awards were the result of an initiative by Teflas and The Times of India to recognise and honour individuals and organisations that have contributed consistently to the betterment of the state of Orissa. The award will be presented to XIMBs Director, Fr. P. T. Joseph, in a ceremony in Bhubaneswar, on the August 14, 2008 in presence of Shri Naveen Patnaik, the honourable Chief Minister of Orissa.

Unite4action, or U4A, tries to bridge the resource gap in social sector and caters those professionals and students who feel like contributing to society, but dont know from where to start.

Information overload, rapid change, irreconcilable certitudes and persistent uncertainty are now the experience of many organisations including companies, government departments and NGOs.

Abraham Zaleznik of Harvard Business School argues that managers tend to adopt impersonal, if not passive, attitude towards goals, whereas leaders take a personal and active attitude towards goal. While, John Kotter, a colleague of Zaleznik at Harvard, also argues that management is about coping with complexity. Leadership, in contrast, is about coping with change. No wonder that leadership literature is voluminous and much of it is confusing and contradictory.

Even the brief love affair with Japanese business practices in the early 1980s was intellectually colonized by American thinkers such as W. Edwards Deming and Richard Pascale.

The impact of Bhagavad Gita was clear when he said I think its better to fight and fail than not to fight at all; but in this industrial movement I believe we are destined to fight and to conquer. I have no patience with my country men throw up their hand in despair, and declare all is lost. He had demonstrated transactional leadership.