It’s not a small world. It’s actually remarkably big.

I hate the term unconventional. It elevates you to being an oddity. It makes you feel that you are doing something way cooler by virtue of not doing what many people have done before. Apart from the word B-school, unconventional is the word I hate the most. Unconventional is the main deterrent to making the choice that we want to. Unconventional is the excuse parents use when they want you to take a safer path. Unconventional is the excuse hipsters use for justifying their lack of dressing sense. What I do is not unconventional. Fun? Yes. But please don’t call it unconventional. You would be massaging an already inflated ego. Did I not tell you that I am not modest?

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Education in Family Business Management brings about an understanding within the family business and associates on how to combat the changing dynamics of competition and organization, enabling one to explore new avenues and expand one's own company. Family Business contributes around 60-70 per cent of GDP in most developed and developing countries and India is not an exception. In a business environment characterized by intensified competition, family-owned companies face unique challenges. Therefore it becomes imperative for those who want to play a positive role in the family business to get themselves trained and learn how to leverage the strengths and manage the tensions within the business. Formal education also opens up ways to successfully implement practices that drive high performance, shareholder loyalty and healthy family relationships.

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We all err at some point of time in our lives or the other. But how often have you tried accepting your error and introspecting on it wholeheartedly? Or is it yet another error on your part to not introspect on your errors? What is it?

A thorough evaluation of errors will facilitate the understanding of specific characteristic traits, behaviour patterns and thought patterns behind them. I am sure that if you look back at some of your errors, say A, B & C and then draw Venn Diagrams of the traits and thought patterns which led to these errors, you will surely figure out that there is substantial intersection among them. These recurrent characteristic traits and thought patterns are the real enemies, which you need to address. They will try to spring up every time you engage in your daily activities, in whatever sphere. If you have discerned these traits and thought patterns within you, you will be able to win over them by consciously monitoring them and making efforts to rise above them. 

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Working professionals and executives who do not want to leave their job to do a full-time management programme in a classroom can now avail of a host of convenient options online. Management institutes are increasing their reach across the masses using innovative learning podiums, one among them being the online interactive classroom. One of the networks that has been enabling this opportunity is the Hughes network. Top institutes such as IIM C, XLRI etc offer management programmes for executives through online classrooms on this platform.

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Heads, there is a recession. Tails, there is no recession. It is a toss up really. If you believe the stock markets they are swinging like a pendulum. According to them, there is a recession one day and good news the other. What to do? Who to believe? And in the middle of it all, what should I do? Is this the right time to stay put in my job or try my luck at getting into a B-school? On the one hand, enrolments in colleges increase each time there is a recession (at least in the US) and on the other hand, companies layoff only some and many others continue with their jobs.

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