Management Scholars Academy

Which one do you want to hear first? OK, let me give the good news.

By God’s grace, MS Academy has signed an MOU with Pharmexx, a large pharmaceutical services organization to implement TQM and conduct project management workshops over the next 6 to 9 months. We are delighted to be part of their Good to Great journey.

Management Scholars Academy is into Project Management training and consultancy. We conduct PMP boot camps and PM workshops. Last month I conducted a one day Project Management workshop at Bangalore for a large financial services company. The learning objective given to me was to introduce the essential PM concepts at high level.

After starting on my own, I am meeting many interesting people, when I am going out and marketing MS academy services. When I say interesting people, I mean not only people who are successful in their career but people who see value in continuous learning.

Today when I met Mr.Chenthir Kumaran MD of Pharmexx India he summarized the passion for learning with a simple example and a quotable quote. Mr.Chenthir has personally attended training by Philip Kotler and Kenneth Blenchard.

He said, “A family barber has a special place in our culture. He is invited while celebrating birth of a child, for threading ceremony, for marriage and even death…

I have read the book ‘Good to great’ by Jim Collins. But I got a golden opportunity to deeply STUDY the book and make a presentation to a client company which is enthusiastically on the ‘Good to great’  journey. After the presentation they have promised to take us along in their journey. I am quite excited about this opportunity because I feel it will help Management Scholars Academy discover our hedgehog concept.

Hedgehog concept from good to great

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I made these improvements in the last two weeks to make it more professional.

> Originally I only plugged wordpress into msacademy. So I registered with wordpress, got an API and installed the site stats plugin (Now I know how many people visited from where and what they are wearing (-:))

Received the photos from SPICON 2010. Show off time -

Receiving a memento form Mr.Kannan, VP-Quality, HCL Technologies. Along with me is V.Manikandan who has joined MS Academy to help with business development and workshop delivery. Mani has an MCA degree and 8 years experience in IT industry.

Receiving a memento

I am sharing a joke during the panel discussion

Along with me on the stage From L to R Mr.Chandrashekar, Mr.Vinayagamurthy, Mr.Rajamanickam and Mr.Kannan.

Thanks for watching!!

Last Friday I conducted a seminar at the Annual Managers Meet of a client held at Green Coconut Resort in ECR, Chennai. The theme was “Scaling the management maturity ladder”. I used the People CMM model to illustrate the management maturity ladder and emphasized the need to create level 5 leaders who have the professional will to get things done plus the personal humility to create future leaders for the organization.

Management Scholars Academy was a sponsor for SPICON 2010 annual conference of SPIN Chennai which was a well organized event by a set of dedicated SPIN volunteers. The theme this year was very timely – Operational Excellence for sustenance and growth. K.Dinesh co-founder of Infosys was the key note speaker. He shared his experiences at Infosys on persevering with the dream and the willingness to change to scale up and how the value system was established and communicated by the leaders by living the values themselves. Bala Balachandran from Kellog School of Management had the audience eat out of his hand with his crisp quotes and acronyms, timely jokes and very practical management advice.