Gravity Magazine_Final - Great Lakes

FOUNDER’S MESSAGE
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Welcome to Great Lakes Institute of
Management that is Powered by Knowledge
and Steered by Ethical Values with a
'Global Mindset and Indian Roots'. It is with
extreme delight that I introduce the second issue of
Gravity, the Great Lakes magazine. The theme for
this issue is India Balanced Scorecard, a Reality
Check.
How do customers see us?
Founder and Honorary
Dean's Message
At Great Lakes, excellent start to the placement
season, 80 offers trickling in the first two days of
placement cycle itself, has set the pace for another
eventful year; the admissions for next batch are in
full swing.
On a wider perspective, India continues on a dream
run of 7-8% growth. It has never been a one
dimensional nation and continues to challenge its
interpreters. State heads from developed nations
are making rounds unaffected by Third World
myopia.
But not without an effort, India has been a frontrunner
in forging relations. Even in the tentative
moments of freedom, when secularism and
socialism defined the nationalist ideal, leaders like
Nehru had the prescience to foresee the possibilities
of liberalization in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and
who with Tito and Nasser was one of the chief
architects of the nonaligned movement. Russian
alliance got a further boost with Mr. Gorbachev
transforming the former Soviet Union to the current
group of Russian nations. Global relations seem to
have come full circle and India's intent in the past
one decade seem to have borne fruits with President
Bush approving the nuclear deal, helping meet one
of the key infrastructure challenges of an energy
starved nation. The successful transformation of
the US-INDIA relationship will have a decisive and
positive influence on the future International
System, such that India will benefit by leaps and
bounds.
If India is to become the THIRD largest Economic
Power, it is not going to be attained either by
Politicians or by the Government and Bureaucracy
but by Business Entrepreneurs and Leaders of
tomorrow who are groomed by Great Lakes and
other schools of higher quality and values.
What must we excel at?
Increased acceptance globally also entails
responsibility. Indian businesses are now leading
the transnational mergers and acquisitions BUT
still managers with global perspective are a
scarcity. It's definitely by design that at Great lakes
a global perspective and constant innovation surge
in curriculum is sustained through multifaceted
initiatives.
One such initiative; Dr. Deepak Chopra's lecture at
Great Lakes delved into hitherto unchartered
territory on the Indian management scene. In
addition Dr. Chopra and I have designed a new
management development course titled 'Soul
Leadership' on the lines of a similar course
conducted at the Kellogg. Essentially, efforts
should be made to contain the social costs related to
stupendous growth witnessed in India. Young
managers achieve levels of prosperity in a couple
of years what took their parents couple of decades,
So they look for larger meaning of life and courses
like these will help round out business ready
managers for longer hauls.