Leadership beyond boundaries
Bonding with societal issues with the spirit of design thinking and innovation
Executive
education enters a new realm as MBA students design prototypes that can
be scaled up and taken to the next level not just to start
entrepreneurial ventures but to find real-time solutions to societal
problems
Global
citizenship not just a privilege or an intellectual advantage, but it's
an ecological and social necessity, a technological possibility and
also an emotional and political possibility in ways that it never was
before. And because of a growing awareness of ecological and economic
interdependence, the young managers and entrepreneurs stepping into
the arena of turbulent global work space need to learn to look beyond
the narrow career goals to take on the mantle of responsible leaders
by creating different kinds of mechanisms that empower stakeholders in
a sustainable manner. The young Indian minds need to consider how
design-thinking can contribute to solving India's societal challenges,
and what leadership is required to grow a design-based culture in Indian
businesses and society, in short, how design-thinking could bring
positive changes in the infrastructure and behaviour of India's
rapidly urbanising environment.
The
students from WeSchool’s niche programs like Healthcare, Retail
,Business Design and Rural Management grouped with their counterparts
from the PGDM & PGDM E–Biz have been undergoing a transformational
program in leadership, team building ,value and ethics etc.and looking
at ‘opportunity spaces ‘ that included burning social issues,
environment protection ,inclusion of stakeholders in developmental
process, energy conservation and alternate sources of energy; where they
were expected to look deep into the psyche of multiple stakeholders,
create stakeholder maps ,understand the patterns that emerged during the
process and turn them into solutions for societal benefits. What
emerged out of this creative endeavour were business plans that were
also solutions for issues faced by both rural as well as urban
population i.e. financial services for the urban underprivileged,
de-congestion through improved traffic sense, improving emergency
healthcare in cities, enhancing the branding of government services like
the MTDC, designing an efficient IT tool for tracking government
documents needed by citizens and many others.
‘Leadership
beyond boundaries ‘ unfolded into reality when these solutions were
presented to an impressive jury that included : Ashish Somaiyya,
CEO-Motilal Oswal Pvt Ltd ,U.R.Bhat ,MD.Dalton capital Advisors(I)Ltd , Anurag Madan,Exec Director-Edelweiss , Sameer Tamhane, Sr.Director(HR),MSD Organon(I) Pvt Ltd , Varky Joseph, Head-Customer experience-Raymond, Leon Verdes, Sr Manager- Finance , Castrol, Rajendra Samant, Area manager-Jain Irrigation, Sanjay Badhe-Consultant –Mktg & Retail strategy and Dakshesh Parekh, Executive Director- Business India.
Lyndon Rego, Director-Innovation Incubator& Global Director -LBB, and Ramsey Ford,
Co-founder &Design Director-Design Impact , from Center for
Creative Leadership (CCL ) mentored the students along with WeSchool
faculty, reviewed the breakthrough projects and briefed the Global
Citizen Leaders of the future in this journey.
Among the 25 projects that were scrutinised by the panel of juries, the 3 top solutions were:
· VERMISPRAY
,A business plan for converting an agricultural by-product ; an organic
liquid fertilizer into an user friendly product for the consumption of
the urban spaces like public and terrace gardens, nurseries, landscape
artists ,horticulturists as well as rural farms.
· SWEET
NOTHINGS, A plan for positioning the everyday jaggery into a high-end
ready- to- retail product by converting the crude packaging and bulky
form into with sophisticated packaging and branding. To make it
attractive for the urban consumer for health and taste, to be sold in
bars(like chocolate),cubes(like chiklets ) ,syrup ( for desserts) and
also as a healthy substitute for the Hypoglycaemia patients.
· www.egrameen.com,
an IT intervention to bring a convergence of news, product
information, technological know-how, on-ground workshops, chat rooms to
boost rural entrepreneurship
Prof Dr Uday Salunkhe ,Group Director-WeSchool commented
, “India needs young talent who will not only strive for personal
success as a corporate leaders or entrepreneurs but also on making
the society a better place to live. One of the key initiatives that
WeSchool has taken up towards nurturing its students is the AAA
approach. AAA stands for Acquisition, Application and Assimilation of
knowledge. The approach emphasizes students to learn through application
of acquired knowledge and as the next step delve deeper to make meaning
of the knowledge acquired & experience by understanding one's roles
& responsibilities towards business, relationships & society
.Center for Creative Leadership has joined hands with WeSchool to
mentor our young students into seekers and explorers in search of
answers, that will heighten the sense of responsibility and cultural
empathy, broaden the world view and assist them to create a new, higher
ideal; an identity of self that they can relate to. As the vision of
self will undergo a deep change, the young manager will move from
responsive to transformative contribution to the society “
This
initiative compelled the young MBAs-to-be to step out of the comfort
zones of classroom learning, look closely at the fast- paced realities
of the environment and come out with strong solutions that had the
potential to be taken to a higher level .This endeavour not only changed
their lenses but also tested their ability to accept failure and turn
it into opportunities for higher degrees of success.
About WeSchool:
Established
in 1977, Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development
& Research (We School) features among the premier Business Schools
in India. We School has two campuses, one in Mumbai the financial
capital of India and another in Bengaluru, the IT capital of India. We
School is among the 41 quality Institutes governed and run by charitable
Trust S.P. Mandali, Pune, all across the state of Maharashtra. We
School has been ranked 10th among the top private B-Schools, 8th in
international linkages by Forbes India in their best Business School
survey in July 2011 and ranked 16th in Economic Times - India Inc’s
Preferred B Schools survey 2011.
About CCL :
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
is a top-ranked, global provider of executive education that develops
better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership education and
research. Founded in 1970 as a non-profit, CCL helps clients around the
world cultivate creative leadership—the capacity to achieve more than
imagined by thinking and acting beyond boundaries.
‘Leadership
Beyond Boundaries (LBB) ‘ is the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL)
global effort to advance leadership development in the world. Applying
decades of knowledge in CCL's research and training practice, LBB's
mission is to make accessible, low-cost but equally high quality
leadership development at the grassroots. With the help of sponsors and
partners in India, LBB has been working to unlock the potential of the
country's greatest resource — its people.
The following are key areas of work –Educational Institutions, youth
organizations, Government and social sector, social entrepreneurs,
microfinance organizations and women empowerment groups.
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