Even as the Tatas and Mittals take corporate India to the global stage, the country’s unique brand of management and leadership skills, with a human touch, continues to attract the world to the Indian shores.
Ko Miyataki and Glenn Miyataki, a Japanese couple from the US island-state of Hawaii, are only the latest to feel the pull of this magnet.
The couple is here to attend a session on 'Leadership and Human Values — Discover Your Leadership Signature' programme, being organised by Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow professor Debashis Chatterjee at the IIM campus. The three-day seminar began on Monday.
Glenn, earlier engaged with the University of Hawaii and the Fujitsu Company, is now into consultancy business, while wife Ko is a medical rehabilitation expert associated with a Hawaiian hospital.
The two say they are here to attend the session for a better understanding of the complexities of modern world.
"This is a complex world but I have seen some basic values in human beings that keep coming back to us," Glenn says.
"The clashes (of interest) take place when a leader overlooks those basic values.
"This leadership programme based on human values will hopefully enhance our understanding of those basic values."
The Miyatakis are not alone. Southeast Asian entrepreneur Duanae Kurisu has come from Honolulu to attend the programme. Besides, many bankers and corporate bigwigs from different parts of the country have gathered at IIM-Lucknow for the session on leadership skills.
On the seminar's first day, Swami Muktinathanand, Chief Executive Officer of Ram Krishna Math, talked about Swami Vivekanand’s teachings that focus on a spiritual law for every human being to reach a state of absolute knowledge, absolute existence and absolute bliss.
The session also had the participants meditating with Muktinathanand.
The programme was started over a decade ago by then IIM-Lucknow director S Chakravorty and Dedashis Chatterjee.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Indian-style leadership pulls biz world
February 7, 2007, 9:43 amIndians to enjoy highest pay hikes
February 7, 2007, 9:40 am
Asian workers are expected to enjoy the highest pay hikes in the world in 2007, thanks to robust economic growth, talent shortage and lower inflation, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Real wage increases, which represent workers' annual salary rises after taking inflation into account, are expected to climb an average 3.6 per cent in Asia this year, a 50 per cent jump from 2.4 per cent in 2006, according to a survey by human resources firm ECA International.
Robust economic growth has turned Asia into one of the fastest-growing millionaires club in the world as private bankers flock to the region, and as banks such as Merrill Lynch/Capgemini bet that the wealth of Asian millionaires may hit $10.6 trillion in 2010.
“There is too much money chasing after too few managers, so companies have to throw more money at their managers to get them to stay,” said Lee Quane, ECA's Hong Kong-based general manager.
Salaries for Asian workers may get a bigger boost because Asian economies are growing faster than the supply of talent - especially for senior managers - and because falling inflation rates are lifting purchasing power, Quane said.
According to the survey, which compares 45 countries, workers in India are set to enjoy the sharpest jump in real wages across the globe this year at 7 per cent.
Workers in Indonesia and China come in a close second and third, with real wage increases forecasted at about 6 per cent.
In comparison, salaries for workers in Slovakia may grow by 3.5 per cent in real terms this year - the fastest expected pace of growth outside Asia - while American workers may only see their wages inch up 1.1 per cent.
"In India, companies are growing, the gross domestic product is growing, so there stands good reason that people should be earning more," Quane said.
He added that workers in India's business process outsourcing and technology sectors, which have the highest labour turnovers, were likely to see the sharpest wage increases.
Vietnamese workers, on the other hand, may see the lowest pace of real wage growth in Asia in 2007 due to high inflation rate.
The world's top 10 countries with the highest forecasted 'real' wage increases in 2007
1. India
2. Indonesia
3. China
4. Philippines
5. Thailand
6. Slovakia
7. South Korea
8. Malaysia
9. Egypt
10. Russia
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Real wage increases, which represent workers' annual salary rises after taking inflation into account, are expected to climb an average 3.6 per cent in Asia this year, a 50 per cent jump from 2.4 per cent in 2006, according to a survey by human resources firm ECA International.
Robust economic growth has turned Asia into one of the fastest-growing millionaires club in the world as private bankers flock to the region, and as banks such as Merrill Lynch/Capgemini bet that the wealth of Asian millionaires may hit $10.6 trillion in 2010.
“There is too much money chasing after too few managers, so companies have to throw more money at their managers to get them to stay,” said Lee Quane, ECA's Hong Kong-based general manager.
Salaries for Asian workers may get a bigger boost because Asian economies are growing faster than the supply of talent - especially for senior managers - and because falling inflation rates are lifting purchasing power, Quane said.
According to the survey, which compares 45 countries, workers in India are set to enjoy the sharpest jump in real wages across the globe this year at 7 per cent.
Workers in Indonesia and China come in a close second and third, with real wage increases forecasted at about 6 per cent.
In comparison, salaries for workers in Slovakia may grow by 3.5 per cent in real terms this year - the fastest expected pace of growth outside Asia - while American workers may only see their wages inch up 1.1 per cent.
"In India, companies are growing, the gross domestic product is growing, so there stands good reason that people should be earning more," Quane said.
He added that workers in India's business process outsourcing and technology sectors, which have the highest labour turnovers, were likely to see the sharpest wage increases.
Vietnamese workers, on the other hand, may see the lowest pace of real wage growth in Asia in 2007 due to high inflation rate.
The world's top 10 countries with the highest forecasted 'real' wage increases in 2007
1. India
2. Indonesia
3. China
4. Philippines
5. Thailand
6. Slovakia
7. South Korea
8. Malaysia
9. Egypt
10. Russia
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Princeton libraries join Google book-scan project
February 7, 2007, 9:37 am
Princeton University has become the 12th major library system to join Google's ambitious, sometimes-controversial project to scan the world's great literary works and make them searchable over the Web.
The Web search leader said on Monday Princeton had agreed to work with it to digitize about 1 million public domain books--works no longer covered by copyright protections.
The combined collections of the university's libraries total more than 6 million printed works, 5 million manuscripts and 2 million nonprint items.
A Google spokeswoman said her company and the 250-year-old Princeton library system would work together to determine which portions of the collection would be digitized.
Two years ago, Google Inc. began the book-scanning project with a core group including the New York Public Library and academic libraries at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the University of Michigan.
Six months ago, the University of California became the first of a second round of libraries to join, followed by the University Complutense of Madrid, the National Library of Catalonia and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Virginia, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Only the Michigan and Texas libraries agreed to scan works that are still under copyright. The rest have said they are focusing on public domain works or are still considering whether to scan copyrighted works.
In October 2005, five big US publishers, together with the Association of American Publishers, sued Google seeking to block its plans to make libraries' works searchable online.
The case has yet to come to trial.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
The Web search leader said on Monday Princeton had agreed to work with it to digitize about 1 million public domain books--works no longer covered by copyright protections.
The combined collections of the university's libraries total more than 6 million printed works, 5 million manuscripts and 2 million nonprint items.
A Google spokeswoman said her company and the 250-year-old Princeton library system would work together to determine which portions of the collection would be digitized.
Two years ago, Google Inc. began the book-scanning project with a core group including the New York Public Library and academic libraries at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the University of Michigan.
Six months ago, the University of California became the first of a second round of libraries to join, followed by the University Complutense of Madrid, the National Library of Catalonia and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Virginia, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Only the Michigan and Texas libraries agreed to scan works that are still under copyright. The rest have said they are focusing on public domain works or are still considering whether to scan copyrighted works.
In October 2005, five big US publishers, together with the Association of American Publishers, sued Google seeking to block its plans to make libraries' works searchable online.
The case has yet to come to trial.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
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