On Management

Three books which are of immense help to anybody venturing into the field of Marketing are a) In Search of Excellence by Peters & Waterman b) The 22 Immutable laws of Marketing by Ries and Trout c) Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono They make great readings!

I am listening to a series of lectures on management by Prof K B Akilesh of Indian Institute of Science ,Bangalore .This should whet my appetitie for Management education for a while.

I have taken the following continuing education courses in HR management and Financial Management while I was at Chicago the websites and URL are as below: http://www.exinfm.com/training for finance courses and http://www.eridlc.com for HR benefits and compensation courses Interesting courses ,as I was able to update myself.

I was listening to the leadership series interviews conducted by McKinsey . I listened to John Chambers CEO Cisco Systems and Jeroen Van Der Veer Ex-CEO Shell They had some interesting things to say about recession,managing the future etc

I happened to participate in a management quiz conducted online and won a prize too. the result is at the URL given below http://www.successfulmanagers.com/15issue/mqwinners.asp?name=sufian

A Very interesting subject indeed! Organization and Management deals with organization behavior aspects of management. You have to read the works of McClelland,Taylor,Fayol,Maslow,Drucker ,Kaplan Norton,Mintzberg Industrial Psychology is a wide and engrossing topic and leads to development of Organizational leadership

My first experience at attempting to learn management as a subject came at BIMTECH,Delhi where I attended a One year Post Graduate Program in Business Management in 1991.The experience opened my eyes to the esoteric world of general management.I was immersed in a program with concentration of Organisational and Management,Entrepreneurship,Management Accounting,Managerial Economics and Quantitative Techniques day in and day out. Second semester was much more interesting we had to delve into the subjects such as Financial Management,Marketing Management,Human resources Management,Production and mat. management and Economic and social environment of business. The interesting aspect of management education is the ubiquitous case study.