Creating Real Leaders

Updated on: Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) launched a weeklong rigorous and compulsory course for its flagship PGP participants, their latest achievement in the field of management education. Debashis Chatterjee, professor and director, IIM Kozhikode in the presence of the faculty and students, inaugurated the six-day course, entitled ‘Managerial Perspective’, recently, at the IIMK campus. 32 faculty members of IIM Kozhikode and select invited dignitaries from top notch corporate entities such as Satish Pradhan, director, human resource, Tata Sons, Thulsiraj of Aravind Eye Care System, Ramesh Thomas and Nappina Sampath of Equitor Consulting, Rama Reddy, formerly of Cooperative Development Foundation will form the teaching staff for this course.

Chatterjee said, “This course challenges the tyranny of territorial thinking and development based knowledge dissemination. This course, offered for the first time by any school in the world, will challenge our industrial age teaching and make learning more centered on the leaner than ever before. IIMK will reinvent classroom democracy by making learning, rather than the learned, the real leader.”

Anadakuttan Unnithan, chairperson, post graduate programme, IIMK commented, “Managers must be trained to operate in unforgiving reality. They need opportunities to experiment, test their assumptions and learn from their mistakes to revise their unexposed mental models. This course is a 'sandbox' to provide the students with such an opportunity.”

According to IIMK’s dean of development, professor Sanal Kumar Velayudhan, “Managerial Perspective course is the first of its kind in not only India but to the best of my knowledge anywhere in the world. It was developed to suit the needs of our context, bright young minds that would be motivated to learn by focusing on decision making without the shackles of functional area disciplines. The creative element in the design of the programme was made by a small team of three professors spending more than a year followed by a larger team of faculty members testing and refining it. We then had facilitation workshops for thirty two faculty members.”

Creating Real Leaders

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