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SIIB
Leadership Series 2008 |
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“Leadership is not about knowing the future. It is
about enabling it.”
SIIB Leadership Series is the flagship event of SIIB.
This conclave held every year since 2002, cherishes
and celebrates the spirit of leadership. This event
has come to become an exceptional platform where
some of the finest and most successful personalities
of India Inc. have shared their experiences with
budding managers of SIIB and delegates of prominent
B-Schools.
Some of the eminent
speakers who have graced the event in earlier years
were Mr. Homi Khusrokhan, MD, Tata Tea (
2003), Mr. Adi Godrej, Chairman, The Godrej Group (
2004) Mr. Habil Khorakiwala, Chairman, Wockhardt Ltd
( 2004), Mr. Jagdish Capoor, Chairman, HDFC Bank
(2004) , Mr Richard Rushton, Managing Director, Sab
Miller India ( 2005) Mr. A.K. Purwar, Chairman, SBI
(2005), Mr M.N. Singh ( Ex-IPS) , Chairman, Invent
ARC Pvt. Ltd. ( 2006) , Mr Bala Swaminathan,
Managing Director, Regional Head- Client
Relationships India & South Asia, Standard
Chartered Bank ( 2006) , Mr T.R Doongaji,
Managing Director, Tata services Ltd ( 2007) and
Mr.
Lakshminarayan,
Joint Managing Director ,MICO
Ltd.( 2007).
This year the SIIB
Leadership Lecture Series will be held on September
21, 2008.
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SIIB
Leadership Series 2007
The theme for this year was “
Idea to Action ”.
The event Leadership Series 2007
was organised on October 7th, 2007. The Chief Guest
for the SIIB Leadership Series 2007 was Mr. Jayant
Patil, the Honourable Finance & Planning Minister of
Maharashtra. Besides him the eminent personalities
present for the event were Mr. Ujjwal Nikam, Public
Prosecutor, Maharashtra; Mr. Naushad Forbes,
Director Forbes Group and Dr. S.B. Mujumdar, Founder
of Symbiosis International University. The event was
inaugurated by these eminent personalities along
with the esteemed presence of Dr.(Mrs.) Rajni Gupte,
Director SIIB.
The event commenced with the
inaugral speech by Dr. S.B. Mujumdar, who motivated
students of SIIB to achieve great heights so that
the world market recognizes the products of
Symbiosis. He pushed students further with the
slogan "Chak De Symbiosis".
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Mr. Patil stressed on the wide spectrum of economic
growth in India. He enlightened students of SIIB on
how India started with the opening of her economy to
the present status of great mergers by
IndianCompanies. He also emphasized that under
severe competition from other countries, we need a
double digit economic growth for which India needs
developed infrastructure, road, railways and ports |
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Dr. Naushad Forbes touched the area
of innovation and how ideas are converted into actions,
the force behind which is purpose, focus and will. The
present purpose is the continuous improvements in the
India. Taking it further, he said a purpose cannot be
achieved without 100% focus, clear vision and delivering
on that vision. An organization need right people with a
potential to succeed. Taking the upshot, he said that
the states of India need to play individual role in
developing the Indian Economy. |
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Mr. Nikam delivered his speech on the positive
aspects of life. He mentioned that the ideas are
borne in mind and body starts implementing it. He
added that optimism and persistent efforts keep the
life rolling and help in overcoming the problems of
life. Finally, he suggested to the students of SIIB
not to be overconfident and over- ambitious but they
should optimistic with the practicability of ideas
and feasibility of success. |
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Mr. Doongaji delivered lecture on the topic "To have
Nothing Is To Have Everything". In his whole
lecture, he touched every aspect without which a
person cannot be a leader in real sense. He started
with "Ego" that is one of the hurdles in one's way
of success. He explained Ego finds expression in
hedonistic pursuits & possessions; a desire for
power, rank & sphere of command. |
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Mr. Narayan, advised the students of SIIB
to be critical and not to be cynical in business
decisions. He stated that there is a need of
transformational leadership in the present corporate
scenario which can aim for success, demonstrate
leadership and courage with goals in mind and trust
in associates so as to shape the future with a joint
effort. |
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Mr. Ramesh commenced his interaction with students of
SIIB covering engineering , technology and
innovation. He suggested change in all four M's i.e.
man, machine, material and methods along with focused
approach towards three C's i.e. customer, company and
competition. He stressed that this century belongs to
materials which should be light, cost-effective and
smart |
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Mr.Dheer projected the concept of
idea generation which does not happen in vacuum and
requires vision, value and purpose. For this, a
leader-manager needs to be highly capable, competent
and effective with a will to work in group and
ultimately supposed to execute the same in a
successful manner. |
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He stated that lots of ideas
generate daily but only few ideas convert into
ideas. Ideas need investment of thinking process,
team effort, discussion and analysis in every
aspect. The person implementing the ideas need to be
focused and accept responsibilities. He guided the
future managers of SIIB that to be successful in the
Corporate world, one needs o find the weakness in
its competitors, research and improve your product
and launch the product in an innovative manner to
ensnare the market and customer. |

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