Gandhi Journal Article - I

Management minus Jargon

Learning Management & Leadership from the Mahatma's "The Story of My Experiments with Truth"

Mahatma Gandhi is an icon! Business and political leaders have marveled at his monumental achievements in South Africa, India and the world at large.

Mahatma Gandhi exemplifies leadership and managerial capabilities in the most myriad and trying situations. One can take various lessons in Self Management, Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation, Strategy, Economics, Communication, Rural Development, Social Inclusion, Education, Entrepreneurship, Women Empowerment, Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance from his work and methods. 

This article explores some incidents from the autobiography. Being a bestseller, it is readily available in over 40 Indian and foreign languages. This book provides a strong base for the lessons that can be derived from practices of Gandhiji. His life, practices and work of course go way beyond the autobiography.

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Gandhi Journal Article - I

Learning Unfettered in the Management Classroom: Experiential Learning

By Dr Aparna Rao

Abstract 

Challenges for Management Educators

Preference for management education is an increasingly global trend in career planning. Growing demand has led to varying needs and expectations from this field. The spectrum of aspirants for management education ranges from undergraduates to experienced and senior professionals, from employed personnel to entrepreneurs, from primary sectors like agriculture and mining to tertiary sectors like banking services to secondary sectors like manufacturing and production.
The varied demographics of students opting for management studies results in equally varied perceptions about age, qualifications and experience for enrollment for MBA. Management courses being offered are aimed at meeting the various kinds of demands. This reflects in the numerous courses offering MBA or its equivalent. These requirements have triggered a wide range of courses catering to different segments of the population - full time two year courses to one year, to six months to distance learning to online courses in management education.

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10,000 Gandhi books of worth Rs. 5.25 lakh have been sold within a month 360 MBA students of Chetana Management Institutes

Gandhi’s ‘Nai Taleem’ in higher education

10,000 Gandhi books of worth Rs. 5.25 lakh have been sold within a month by
360 MBA students of Chetana Management Institutes to get hands-on experience of marketing

Students of Chetana Management Institutes, wearing T-shirts with Gandhi’s messages ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’ sold about 8,500 copies of Gandhi’s Autobiography ‘My Experiments With Truth’ in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati and about 1,600 copies of other Gandhi books, ‘Timeless Inspirator–Reliving Gandhi’, Edited by internationally acclaimed scientist, Raghunath Mashelkar and ‘Gandhian Management’ by Ram Pratap, total 10,000 Gandhi books worth Rs. 5.25 lakhs, within a span of one month i.e. 4th March to 7th April 2012.

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