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A Multipolar World: Inevitable or Wishful Thinking- Amb Kanwal Sibal

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Amb Kanwal Sibal addressing 56th Leaderspeak Session

Amb Kanwal Sibal addressing 56th Leaderspeak Session

There have been talks about the world having multiple Super Powers, but a peaceful transition to a Multipolar World is a debatable topic, said Amb Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary of India at AIMA’s LeaderSpeak Session.

AIMA had organised the 56th LeaderSpeak live session on ‘A Multipolar World: Inevitable or Wishful Thinking’. Amb Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary having a distinguished career as a professional diplomat and having served in many countries that were key to India’s geopolitical security and economic interest, was rightly qualified to deliberate the session.

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India’s March towards being a Manufacturing Powerhouse: Dr Pawan Goenka

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Dr. Pawan Goenka addressing in Management Cafe Session - Episode 3

Dr. Pawan Goenka addressing in Management Cafe Session – Episode 3

India is already amongst the world’s leading producers in many key sectors. Dr Pawan Goenka, Former Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd shared his perspectives and forecast of the different sectors of India and how can it be a global supplier at AIMA’s Management Café.

While India is already amongst the world’s leading producers in many key sectors like automotive, metals, and pharmaceuticals and is being seen as one of the high prospects for the global supply chain for almost everything, AIMA had organised the 3rd Management Cafe live session with Dr Pawan Goenka, wherein he shared his acute perspective, analogies, and forecast for the different sectors in India.

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The Art of Management: By Shiv Shivakumar

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D Shivakumar addressing the session during his book launch

D Shivakumar addressing the session during his book launch

AIMA had organised a special session on the launch of a new book- ‘The Art of Management’ by D Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group & Past President, AIMA. D Shiv Shivakumar not only shared the insights of the book but also shared tips on managing self, organization and business.

AIMA had organised a session on the launch of a new book- ‘The Art of Management’ by D Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group & Past President, AIMA.

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Boosting India’s health: Adar Poonawala on producing vaccines during the pandemic

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Adar Poonawalla addressing AIMA National Leadership Conclave 2022

Adar Poonawalla addressing AIMA National Leadership Conclave 2022

Mr Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India explained how the Institute had to raise export and capacity, and also empower the team, to be able to produce vaccines on such a large scale. He also emphasized how capacity and resilience have to be built to ensure India’s health security at AIMA’s National Leadership Conclave 2022.

Mr Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India addressed the audience from the panel in one of AIMA’s National Leadership Conclave sessions on how strong measures have to be taken to build capacity and resilience in the health care supply chain to ensure India’s health security under all circumstances, in addition to narrating the journey of how his company produced vaccines during the pandemic.

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Future Proofing Yourself ““ Catherine Wolfram addressing AIMA

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Catherine Wolfram, Acting Associate Dean & Prof of Business Administration, Haas School of Business talking about Mentorship and Future Proofing Yourself at AIMA’s women-centric programme, PRAGATI 2019. Excerpts –

Catherine Wolfram at AIMA

Catherine Wolfram, Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at Haas School of Business, University of California- Berkeley

I wanted to start by giving a little background on myself and then share a couple lessons. I’m an economist, I earned a PhD and I’ve been a professor for over 20 years. My research focus is on energy and I’ve done several projects in India, although much to my great regret I don’t have a current project ongoing in India. I’m moving into the role of associate dean which is about as close in academics as you get, to being in a management position. In general, academicians are kind of single-minded and they don’t have much taste for being managed. It’s a very non-hierarchical environment, but as I said the associate dean is kind of as close to management as you get. I wanted to share my experiences, though I know that since I’ve been in the US and I’ve been in academics and not in business my experiences have been different from yours, but I think there’s still some general lessons that I can share.

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Creating New Global Order based on Peace & Compassion

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Sri Sri Ravishankar, Spiritual Leader and Founder, The Art of Living Foundation addressing AIMA’s 45th National Management Convention 2018 and sharing his views on how to create a New Global Order Based on Compassion, Trust and Peace. Read Excerpts:

Sri Sri Ravishankar addressing AIMA's 45th National Management Convention.

Sri Sri Ravishankar addressing AIMA’s 45th National Management Convention.

The word silence and listen has the same letters, just a little rearrangement from this side to that side. In today’s world, with such chaos, there are few listeners but many talkers. What we need to do today, first of all, is to cultivate the habit of listening to the other person. Listening to a different point of views, different opinions. Every day when you switch on your television at 9 in the evening, you can see how so many people talk simultaneously, and there’s hardly anyone to listen. This is the world that we are in. Today we think too much. 90% of the stress comes from overthinking. Can we take a few moments of silence and look at any incident with a clear mind. If we can create this habit, we can resolve many conflicts that we face in our lives. I know Sudhir Jalan ji for a long time. As Sudhir used to say how can businessman be quiet, Gurudev? I said, well, at least when he’s watching the stock market, the moment he’s quiet, he doesn’t want to be disturbed and has to watch what is happening. So this attitude to listen to others point of view is essential.

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Sanjeev Sanyal on Reconfiguring Indian Economy

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Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser, Government of India in conversation with Ms Supriya Shrinate, Executive Editor – News, ET Now on ‘Reconfiguring Economy: Coding a New Growth Algorithm: Reconfiguring the Economy’ at AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave 2018.

Sanjeev Sanyal in conversation with Supriya Shrinate

Sanjeev Sanyal in conversation with Supriya Shrinate

The world is seeing a potential trade war in the making, do you believe those fears are for real? Do you believe India will have to take sides on this one, we can’t be a mute spectator?

As far as taking sides is concerned, I’m very clear on whose side we are on. We’re on India’s side. Coming to the question of protectionism and the emerging global scenario. Let me be clear while indeed there are all kinds of protectionist tendencies popping up around the world, we in India remain committed to the globalized system, we are old experimenters in import substitution so our own history should more than adequately tell us that if we overdo import substitution or isolationist policies it always ends in tears. So while it is fair that occasionally you use some sorts of incentives to protect certain industries from dumping or maybe even do some protection for infant industries. Different countries have their own dynamics but in general we do need an open globalized system and in the end, we have to be willing to do deals with the rest of the world and the rest of the world has to be willing to do deals with us. But yes, the old system as it seems may have come to its grinding halt and let’s not blame the individual political leaders. My view is that the old system has come to a creaking halt at multiple levels. In the US there has been a simmering discontent about Chinese imports for a while, the fact of the matter is that it has come to a halt now.

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Happiness is natural and stress is a disease

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Brahmakumari Sister Shivani, Spiritual & Motivational Teacher addressing AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave 2018 on the theme ‘Leading Self to be Innovative, Inclusive & Invincible’. Read Excerpts:

Brahmakumari Sister Shivani addressing AIMA's 4th National Leadership Conclave.

Brahmakumari Sister Shivani addressing AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave

Last week in the Times of India, There was a proposal by the Government of Delhi saying that they want to introduce a subject called ‘Happiness’ in every Government school in Delhi, and they had asked proposals from NGOs and spiritual organisations to submit a curriculum that they would like to execute for school children in a subject called ‘happiness’. Most of us must have seen that page, but did we pause to reflect where are we heading? Our children have to have a subject called happiness because what they’re experiencing today is something different from happiness.

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WhatsApp and Google are Front-ending India’s UPI

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Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov addressing on the theme ‘Reimagining the State: Government as Service’ at AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave 2018. Read Excerpts –

Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov addressing AIMA's 4th National Leadership Conclave

Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov addressing AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave

The whole concept of Government as a service is very new especially in a vast country like India, the learning from countries like Estonia with 1.3 million people and a few more million in Singapore are vast. But you know their digitization came before they tried to leapfrog into fourth industrial revolution. India didn’t have a choice, we are doing digitization and we are leaping into the fourth industrial revolution parallelly and in that parallel universe we have a citizen who is still not connected to the internet probably, has a basic mobile phone, lives in a remote corner of northeast, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir or in Kerela but what has connected all of them is this unique thing that we talk about, Aadhar. Today almost 99% of the adult population has Aadhar. Now we can keep debating its issues on the privacy and the security and that’s in the national interest and that’s the right thing to do but it is really enabling us to deliver the government as a service.

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Winning in the Age of Disruption ““ C P Gurnani, MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra

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C P Gurnani, MD & CEO, Tech Mahindra shares his insights on Winning in the Age of Disruption at AIMA’s 4th National Leadership Conclave 2018. Read Excerpts below –

C P Gurnani at AIMA's NLC

C P Gurnani at AIMA’s NLC

We believe in the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh where. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the sustenance and Mahesh (Shiva) is the destroyer. Now if the disruption is inevitable and it’s going to change the world. The question is who is going to be the creator? Will it be the millennials or startups or some of the larger companies re-inventing themselves? What is the role of the disruptor, what is the role of that Vishnu as a sustenance man or are these roles overstated? Maybe these roles don’t exist anymore. Maybe if I take Tech Mahindra as an example I mean I would strongly go back after this presentation and tell my Board that you should actually collapse all the three roles.

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