Mutually enriching session with senior leadership team of IDBI at ISB, Hyderabad

The amazing response to my session for the Senior Leadership team of IDBI Bank at ISB Hyderabad on ” A Professional’s Lifeline” was absolutely fulfilling. The intent of the session was to help professionals live an “AHA(Always Happily Aspiring) life”. The hand holding process “when we feel together we start thinking together, which enables us to work together resulting in growing together” was a profound realization for the participants. This was found to be a very practical bonding team exercise before meetings.

It was a great feeling to read a senior member’s testimonial ” your session was enlightening, uplifting and inspiring for everyone who attended, specially the mediation part was like rebooting the self 😊😊”

At the end of it, my responsibility to make a difference to Professionals grew.

My thanks to Sujatha Kumaraswamy Dr. Ajay Singh of Indian School of Business. IDBI Bank S V

Mr Ramkrishnan, CEO MARG ProperTies at CBS School

Mr Ramakrishnan, a chartered accountant by profession, has worked with companies like SB Billimoria, Eicher Group, Shriram Group, Lumax Group, Bharti Group, IBM Daksh in the last 20 years. Currently, he works with MARG ProperTies as their CEO.

It has always been his passion to make a difference to young professionals and help them migrate from the school of functional knowledge into the world of practical wisdom. He’s an author of self help books that are experiential guides written purely based on personal experiences.

Mr Ramkrishnan’s address focused on character building. In fact, he felt CBS should stand for Character Building School and Competency Building School. He believes where you study is not important – what matters is what you do with what you study, and how long you can sustain this. Some of his original classic expressions went down very well with the students. A few gems: “Be a happily dissatisfied person”, “Management means Manage me n (number of) times”, “Learning, Growing, Maturing, Contributing – it’s a cyclic process where the key is the suffix –‘ing’ of the present continuous tense – standing for I Need Growth.” He emphasized that innovation is the key to growth.

It’s important, said Mr Ramkrishnan, to be a professional entrepreneur, defining a professional as one who makes right decisions, and an entrepreneur as one who makes his decisions right. He also added that everything has to be done aggressively, but gracefully, coining a new word aggracively! He encouraged students to be Owners in the Cribber, Teller, Definer, Owner quadrants of a Cartesian system, where Owner means OWN-End-Results.

Source – Article from Chennai Business School

Industry Speakers at Chennai Business School recently

Mr.Ramakrishnan – CEO, Marg Group

Mr Ramakrishnan has always inaugurated the “Industry Speaker” sessions at CBS with his energized motivational talks. Very profound truths were delivered with so much simplicity! Students simply loved the session and vowed to be “charged up” henceforth. The session was a discussion for following the essential way in balancing work and personal life often stressing on truth and visibility both in terms with work teams and family.The session also saw some brilliant splitting of prefixes and suffixes by Mr Ramakrishnan in the process of explaining the states that ought to be achieved if one were to focus on attaining balance in their lives.the session was also filled with some hilarious moments when Mr Ramakrishnan started expounding on his life .The end of the session saw Mr Ramakrishnan giving out a meditation exercise complete, with a background soundtrack, which refreshed the students and pushed them into a promising mood for their time in CBS.Mr Ramakrishnan’s credentials can be found here.

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The Effective Manager

INDUSTRY SPEAKER

Mr. S. Ramakrishnan CEO, Real Estate of MARG Limited

As part of the induction program, Mr. Ramakrishnan , CEO, MARG PROPERTIES, addressed the students on how to become an effective and efficient manager. He touched on various aspects of being a good manager. Here are a few .

• Communicate effectively.
• Innovate.
• Be a professional.
• Quick decision making especially in tough situations.
• Adopt a balanced approach.
• He emphasized the need to adopt a value based approach to business.

It was an absolutely absorbing session. He shared his varied experiences in various fields. His enthusiasm was infectious and he had us all involved in an interactive question and answer session. An energizing, enriching session indeed!

 by Doris John

Be the change you want to see…

Saturday, August 15, 2009

A little child pestered her father who was back after a busy day at work to play with her. The father, not in a mood to accede to his daughter’s demand, kept putting her off. The little girl however was adamant. Hoping to buy more time, the father took a part of the newspaper, which had a world map on it, tore it into many pieces and asked the girl to put them in order and then come back to play with him. To the father’s surprise, the child returned in a few minutes saying, “Papa can you play with me now?” “How did you join these pieces so fast?” the father asked. The little girl replied “…papa, I don’t know anything about the countries in the world, but the other-side of the paper had a man’s face and I knew where his eyes, nose and ears are …and so when I got the man’s face right, the world was in place!”

The story sounds quite common, but reflected a deep inner meaning- most of the larger problems in life can be fixed if we get our personal life and attitudes right. This was just the beginning of Mr. S. Ramakrishnan’s (CEO, Real Estate of Marg Limited) motivational talk. Before joining Marg, Mr. Ramakrishnan who is a certified chartered accountant had a brief stint with IBM Daksh. Author of the book “You can become a complete manager” Mr. Ramakrishnan kept us enthralled with his thoughts on how to succeed in our career. From the beginning of his speech till the end, he gave us some of the best solutions to both personal and professional life that plague professionals of the corporate world today.

To the question “How do you become a successful leader?” the candid reply was, “Accepting the past, Changing the present and Aligning the future”. The purpose of the gerund “ing” in all the above processes is to denote continuity, he said. Drawing from his varied corporate experiences, he took us through the professional life cycle and enlightened us on how to stay motivated and effective in our careers. Explaining the work-life-social balance through the three sides of a triangle, he said that unless all three aspects augment, the area of the triangle would not increase. Replete with vivid illustrations and thought-provoking ideas, his entire speech was an illumination into the realm of higher management philosophy. We were truly enlightened by the session and took a step a forward in learning for the real world.

K Sarathy, IT Varsity, 4th Batch, CBS 2009-2010

Source: http://chennaibusinessschool.blogspot.com/

Real World Gyan From Marg CEO

Friday, October 8, 2010
It was Thursday evening and we were all waiting for our first guest lecturer of the academic year. As we sat there with a lot of expectations and wondered what he would talk about, in walked Mr. Ramakrishnan, the CEO of MARG. Mr. Ramakrishnan’s lecture was thought provoking and filled with a lot of real world gyaan that was required for budding managers like us. He started off saying that ‘every man should know to manage else man will age’ that certainly did the trick of grabbing all our attention. He went on to say that ‘if the man is right, then the world would become alright’, stressing the importance of man management. According to him a man should always aim for more and never be content with how much he/she has achieved. He explained this point with context to his own life and how he has been doing what he loves like writing, real estate, managing etc. He said that we should remove the word ‘if’ from our dictionary as it stops one from going forward and trying something. This was truly inspirational. We should strive to achieve our goals and approach all our problems with a positive attitude…and I just couldn’t agree more. But the fun part was when he spoke about what a husband expects from a wife and vice-versa and how both should work on their marriage to make it a success and he related that to an organization…how you look at an organization and what you expect from it and vice versa. This implied that one has to always realize what an organization wants from you and work together for both individual and organization success. When one of the students asked who is more important- happy customers or happy employees, he said that only if employees are happy, an organization can get happy customers. He ended his mesmerizing lecture by saying that we all should have the sky as our limit and never be satisfied with how much we have achieved and constantly strive to change ourselves for the better.

Contributed by Asif Sultan- International Management Varsity (V Batch 2010-11)

Source: http://chennaibusinessschool.blogspot.com