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.

PMBoK definition of Risk response planning :

Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities, and to reduce threats to project objectives

The scene from Ramayana:

(Read the following paras with the above definition in mind)

Sugriva segregates his army into four squads and sends them in four directions in search of Sitadevi’s whereabouts. But he sends three fourth of his army in the southern direction knowing that is where Ravana’s country is.

In 2006, Randy Pausch, 47, Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August, doctors told him that he had “three to six months of good health left.”

Today’s guest post is from Caroline Cayce. Thanks Caroline for your time and efforts. Practical ideas that we can readily use!

According to the American Society of Employees, the top ten concerns of employees are as follows:

• Recognition

• Autonomy

• Clear/fair policies and a system for airing grievances

• Fair/generous benefits

• Team cohesion

• Positive management – employee morale

• Manageable workload

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.

Sorry, I couldn’t get back to this series for a while. Let’s start where we left. We were talking about project politics.

The best way to tackle politics is obviously open and honest communication. right? But why is it so difficult? Could it be the technology? Although technology provides more ways to keep in touch, it doesn’t automatically build relationships. Building relationship is hard work.

As a manager you may assume that you have some formal powers now to make things happen. You forward a mail with ‘FYA’ and expect some action and reply. Nothing happens. Because the actual power comes only from establishing relationships, building credibility, and team support. This means you cannot hide in your office or work and succeed as a manager. If you are a first time manager, along with role change you may even need a mind-set change. It may even be a challenge and a humbling experience. But it is worth it. If you cross the bridge, you can work more with real people and make larger impact.

I wrote an article about my dad when this blog (Happy Publishing) asked for a guest post on any inspirational topic through BLU

http://www.happypublishing.com/blog/guest-post-count-your-blessings/

Ganapathy

Today’s post is a from Lisa Wright, a freelance copywriter. Thanks Lisa for your time and efforts.

Business can be a rather cut-throat environment, with many executives letting ego and greed get in the way of more noble pursuits.  How do you climb the corporate ladder without losing your sense of right and wrong?  Here are a few thoughts to periodically ponder as you progress through your career goals.

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