Managing by Inspiring
August 17-19, 2011
Managing by Inspiring
August 17-19, 2011
The Managing by Inspiring experience is for any manager who is in search of a radically different,
challenging, uplifting, sublimating approach as well as a set of skills to bring out the best in individuals and
teams while striving and stretching towards fulfilling organizational purposes. “Theory M” is the proposed
answer and a “Ten Skills Framework” will be the main takeaway.
Swami Vivekananda has said in one of his many inspired moments – “If you don't let a person be a
lion/lioness, the person ends up being a fox/vixen”– suggesting that every human being is born with
enormous talent only waiting to be recognized, canalized, nurtured and unleashed for the larger as well as
one's own good as the person manifests herself/himself to the world. The phrase “if you don't let” suggests
that the narrative underlying the context in which a person's talent unfolds becomes critical to the nature of
development as well as deployment of the talent.
One kind of a context is the context which diminishes individual and collective aspirations for excellence and
simultaneously stifles talent. It is this kind of context which makes Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi exclaim –
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow
beings”, Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth, Part II Chapter XX. In the same breath, we can also join
Gandhi in observing, “It has always been a mystery to us how human beings can feel themselves honoured
by subjecting themselves to the humiliation inflicted on them by their fellow beings in the name of higher
performance in workplace relations”. The conception underlying Gandhi's lament refers to the not so
uncommon context which leashes individuals and teams by utilitarian, instrumental, opportunistic,
command and control orientations towards the exploitation of human talent in order to maximize rents and
returns. The effect of this bleak world view more often than not is just the opposite of what is intended which
ostensibly is to get the best out of human beings.
Is there then an alternative narrative to the one depicted above? Is there a more human, a more respectful, a
more sensitive, a more sublimating way of designing contexts for inspired talent nurture as indeed portrayed
by the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Hymn XXXV, Gitanjali, Rupa 2002?
WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
It is the search for the alternative narrative to the nurturing of talent which is the driving force behind this
new offering – Managing by Inspiring – based on work which we have been doing over the years…The
alternative narrative has been christened “Theory M” and will be the subject matter of this 3 day
programme. Theory M will translate into a Theory M “Ten Skills Framework” which will help managers to
inspire talented individuals and teams towards ever-widening thought and action in the quest for perfection while
at the same time upholding personal dignity, collective humanity and public respect.
Programme Coordinator: Prof Jerome Joseph
Venue and Accommodation
The programme will be held at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Participants get full board and
air-conditioned, single room accommodation at the Institute campus.
Fee
Rs. 60,000 per participant from SAARC countries including India and US$ 1,900 for participants from other countries.
Kindly note that 10.30% service tax is applicable in addition to the fee. Please note that the programme fee should be
received at the MDP Office before the programme commencement date. The fee covers tuition fees, teaching material,
room and board expenses.
Fee for the programme can be paid by Demand Draft payable at Ahmedabad , India or a pan India cheque
payable at par. The cheque or draft should be in favour of “Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad”.
Fee can also be paid through Electronic Fund Transfer. The details are:
1. For credit to Savings Bank A/c No. 032010100040460, IIM, Ahmedabad, Axis Bank, Vastrapur Branch
(RTGS Code: UTIB0000032)
2. Name of Remitter:________________ (Please mention the name of the sponsoring organization)
3. Purpose of Remittance: Managing by Inspiring
4. IIMA Permanent Account Number (PAN): AAATI1247F
Please DO inform us the complete transaction details so that we can connect the same.
In case of any cancellation, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the
programme commencement date.
Discount
Early Bird Discount: Nominations received with payments three weeks before the programme dates shall be
entitled to an early bird discount of 10%. Early submission of fee and nomination does not, however, guarantee
acceptance of application.
Group Discount: Any organization sponsoring five or more participants to a programme will be entitled to a
discount of 10% on total fee payable, provided that at least five participants actually attend the programme. At
the time of submission of nomination forms, sponsors are requested to pay the full fee. Applicable discounts will
be given on completion of the programme through refund cheques.
Organizations can avail themselves of both the discounts subject to a maximum overall discount of 15%
Income Tax Exemption
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, holds income-tax exemption certificate No. ACIT/TDS Circle/IIM/2010-11
dated 23/4/2010 under section 197 of the I.T. Act, 1961, issued by Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, TDS Circle,
Ahmedabad, which was valid up to March 31, 2011. It is expected to be renewed for the current financial year also.
Therefore, please do not deduct any tax on the professional fee paid.
Nominations and Inquiries
Nominations should reach the Manager, MDP two weeks in advance. Organizational sponsorship is generally
required but can be waived in case the participant is likely to gain significantly from the programme for personal
improvement or greater job effectiveness. A formal acceptance letter will be sent to nominees subject to selection
and approval by the programme faculty. The important due dates for each of the programme are as follows:
Name of the Programme
Managing by Inspiring
Last Date for Availing
Early Bird Discount
July 27, 2011
Last Date for Receipt
of Filled-in Forms
August 3, 2011
For nomination forms and more information, please contact:
Manager, MDP
Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
91-79-2630 0352 (MDP) / 2630 6896 (General)
Phone: 91-79-2632 4071-7, 91-79-6544 9057, Fax:
Email: [email protected],
Website: www.iimahd.ernet.in/mdp
Alumni Association
Participants will become members of the IIMA Alumni Association on completion of the programme. The
alumni enjoy certain benefits with regard to the Institute's publications, facilities, and activities.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD (IIMA), was set up by the Government of India in
collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian industry as an autonomous institution in 1961. The Institute
provides education, training, consulting, and research facilities in management.
The Institute conducts the following major programmes:
• Two-Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management (equivalent to MBA)
• Two-Year Post-Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management (equivalent to MBA)
• Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.)
• One-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX, equivalent to MBA)
• Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for industry, business, agricultural and rural sectors, and public
systems covering education, health, transport, and population. In the last 50 years, over 47,450 managers have
participated in various MDPs.
• Faculty Development Programme for teachers in universities and colleges.
The Institute has about 91 faculty members working in the following management areas and sectors:
DISCIPLINARY AREAS v Business Policy • Communications • Economics • Finance and Accounting • Marketing •
Organizational Behaviour • Personnel and Industrial Relations • Production and Quantitative Methods
INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRES AND GROUPS v Centre for Innovation, Incubation, and Entrepreneurship • Centre for
Infrastructure Policy and Regulation • Centre for Management in Agriculture • Centre for Management of Health Services
• Centre for Retailing • Computer and Information Systems Group • Faculty Development Centre • Gender Resource
Centre • IIMA-Idea Telecom Centre of Excellence • Insurance Research Centre • Public Systems Group • Ravi J. Matthai
Centre for Educational Innovation
Kasturbhai Lalbhai Management Development Centre (KLMDC) located on the IIMA main campus and International
Management Development Centre (IMDC), located on the new campus, provide an academic and learning environment
for participants of the Management Development Programmes. All rooms at KLMDC and IMDC are air-conditioned and
have internet connectivity. They have separate dining halls, a reading lounge, classrooms and auditorium (with audiovisual and computer projection facilities), syndicate rooms, computer lab. The campus is wi-fi enabled. Recreation facilities
exist for indoor and outdoor games (badminton, TT, carom, chess, volleyball and cricket). Participants can also take
advantage of the Institute's library.