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November 2008 Highlights
Cover Story
Downturn Cowboys |
 Research shows that leaders who invest during tough times emerge stronger than those who recoil and wait for the winter to pass
By Sangeeta Mansur
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PLAINSPEAK
Have soft arrogance |
 Subroto Bagchi shakes up quality professionals from their stupor and asks them to have the guts to challenge top management.
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TRENDS
| Seven things that surprise new CEOs |
Michael Porter warns new CEOs to be acutely aware of the environment, people and suggests ways of avoiding common pitfalls. He says that most new chief executives are taken aback by unfamiliar new roles, time and information limitations, and altered professional relationships. All this, in his new book On Competition.
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NEWS
Harvard’s highest alumni award to Anand Mahindra |
 As part of its Centennial celebrations, the Harvard Business School (HBS) recently conferred its highest recognition, the Alumni Achievement Award, on Vice- Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, Anand G. Mahindra.
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MANAGINGTECHNOLOGY
What’s your server? |
 Ranganath Iyengar offers a bird’s eye view of the data management solutions and the smart choices SME’s can make.
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SERVICEEXCELLENCE
The power of doing it first |
Ron Kaufman digs deep into the Indian psyche and suggests ways of making Indians more service oriented in a chat with ManagementNext.
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INNOVATION
How ad agencies can beat recession |
Advertising agencies are particularly sensitive to economic downturns, because their
clients – whether consumer or business-to-business - tend to precipitously chop their ad
budgets when business takes a nosedive.
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BIGIDEA
'Intentional Economics' answer to economic crisis |
Can ‘Intentional Economics’ be the answer to the current debate about why the global
financial system is failing the tax payer? Marilyn Mehlmann looks at the root cause of the current financial crisis and suggests possible alternatives.
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ERP SPECIAL
Hassle-free IT? |
Small businesses today can invest in the best of IT solutions by outsourcing and can aspire to stay competitive even during tough times, says Chetan Pathak VP – India Operations, Ramco Systems,
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SaaS can beat IT shyness out of SMEs |
Out of 12 million SMEs, only 1,000 are using ERP solutions. The software-as-services model has the potential to revolutionize the Indian SME sector, says Srikant S Rao CEO of Affordable Business Solutions
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SPIRITUALITY
Why naivety succeeds |
Life lessons from Yossi Ghinsberg who survived twenty days of near-death adventure in Amazon jungles.
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“Daydreaming is an effective way of coping with complexity. When a problem has a high degree of complexity, the level of detail can be overwhelming,” writes Dov Frohman in a chapter on ‘Daydreaming’ in his book