Gautam Ghosh @ Great Lakes

Gautam Ghosh,HR,OD and Business Blogging Consultant,  was recently present at Great Lakes as a judge for the HR event during L’attitude 13′05. Gautam presently heads a Imagence Partners present in areas of Organization and Strategic HR  and development consulting. He has been associated with companies like Delloite & Touche, Dell, HP and Satyam. Alumunus of XLRI 1999 batch, he is passionate about helping fellow HR professionals increase their level of competence. His blog was adjudged as a special blog in recruiting.com

Gautam possess amazing memory and his blogs on his visit at Great Lakes are testimony of the same. He did not take  any notes during Rahul Bajaj’s and Krish Srikant’s talk but was able to quote some of best sentences mentioned by the key note speakers.

Gautam Ghosh has mentioned about Great Lakes on his blog, writing about his experience with “Rahul Bajaj”, “Krish Srikant”, “HR Case Studies”, “Dumping Traditional Research – Indra Nooyi” and “Chennai here i come”. Its great to find Great Lakes find mention in your blog and it was a pleasure to have you at Great Lakes.

Hoping to see you at Great Lakes more often

S.Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services @ Great Lakes

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It was a pleasure to have amongst us Mr S. Ramadorai, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services for the CEO Conclave on 5th Feb. Mr Ramadorai spoke on how to make Chennai a gateway to South East Asia. He cited practical examples to substantiate his claims in taking Chennai to the next level. He also answered a few Questions raised by participants from B Schools in India, Singapore and Dubai.

He further went on to innaugrate the 3rd volume of Gravity, the inhouse publication of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. It was a thrilling experience to listen directly from the horse’s mouth!

Krish Srikant @ Great Lakes

Great Lakes conducted its Annual Festival, Latitude 13′05, on 5th & 6th Jan’07. One of the events which every one enjoyed was the talk by Former Indian Cricket Captain, Krish Srikant. He took us through his experiences of World Cup’83 and quoted some of the funniest words during his talk. He told about how Kapil Bhajji (Kapil Dev) motivated the entire team and led them to the glorious world cup victory. He also stated many other incidences from his life and pointed on the importance of self belief and team work to achieve success. He also asked Great Lakers to think from their heart and not mind, as mind would never be able to give them a clear and conviencing answer.

Rahul Bajaj @ Great Lakes!

 

Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of Bajaj and Member of Congress was a keynote speaker at Conclave, a part of the recently concluded L’Attitude 13′ 05. It was a sheer pleasure hearing him speak.

A couple of points touched by him were:

• Reforms need to be speeded up to bring prosperity to Indians. We need to focus on intrastrcuture, health and education. 
• Good corporate governance is going to be a law whether businesses like it or not.
• There are still discretionary areas with the government which gives rise to corruption.
• “I am for the underprivileged and the Dalits” he said, “But I voted against the reservation bill in Parliament because what they need is high quality primary education to compete on merit”
• He was sceptical of a one lakh car project by the Tatas and said by the time it reaches the consumer it could probably be one and a half lakh rupees. He dismissed the suggestion that it could be a threat to the two wheeler market. He also added that Bajaj would enter the four wheeler segment in the LCV segment by 2008.
• He also asked the students to work so that not only India is the second or third largest economy in the world but also focus on metrics like per capital income and reduce the 30% population who live on less than a dollar a day to negligible.
• He was categorical that not everyone needs to do a masters degree to add to the mass of over educated and underemployed people, but that people who get second and third class in bachelor’s degrees should get into vocational training and add employable skills.

It was a pleasure having him over!

Great Lakers meet C K Prahlad

 

After Dr. Phil Kotler’s visit, Great Lakers had the privilege of meeting none other than the Strategy Guru of the Management world, Prof C K Prahlad.

Internationally recognized as a specialist on corporate strategy and value-added of top management in multinational corporations, C.K. Prahalad has consulted with many of the world’s foremost companies. In addition to being the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, he serves on the board of Directors of NCR Corp., Hindustan Lever Ltd., and the World Resources Institute.

A prolific author as well, his book, Competing for the Future (co-authored with Gary Hamel), was a national bestseller and was the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994. He also co-authored Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (in 1987 with Yves Doz) and The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers (in 2004 with Venkat Ramaswamy).

He has been named among the top ten management thinkers of the world in every major survey for over ten years.

Great Lakers were indeed lucky to have interacted with the man himself!!