The event progressed towards the highlight of the evening – Dr. Nohria’s lecture on “Building Leaders: Knowing, Doing and Being”. Dr. Nohria instantly spread his aura when he took hold of the audience with his opening statement on leadership. With all eager eyes on him, Dr. Nohria went ahead to elaborate the three aspects of good leadership – knowing, doing and being. Amongst the content of the enlightening and paradoxically simplistic view of the facets of leadership, the audience found itself intrigued by Dr. Nohria’s take on contextual intelligence, humility vs self-confidence, pragmatic vs creative thinking and other such illuminating conceptions. Dr. Nohria focused on execution of ideas with his remark, “Ideas are cheap; executing ideas is more important”. Referring to Harvard Business School’s unique and extensively successful case study based method of imparting education, he emphasised on the need for simulated situations to be used as an approach towards designing a curriculum for any business school. He articulated the importance of responsibility by saying, “Leaders are people who act like owners”. Dr. Nohria ended his lecture with the same level of effectiveness with which he began by asking all students to focus more on leveraging their strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses.
The evening ended with Mr. Niraj Bajaj delivering a vote of thanks to Dr. Nohria and other guests present at the venue.
Evenings like the one from 21st December 2016, do not stay in students’ minds as just events. With the aura emanating from the presence of personalities which they idolise, students carry these evenings with them as unforgettable memories and ardently consuming sources of motivation.
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About the Author:
Omkar Patil is an MMS 1 student at JBIMS (Batch of 2016-18).
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