Wednesday, August 17, 2011: Taking a break from their busy routine, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his 19 cabinet colleagues will tomorrow spend a whole day in a classroom patiently listening to academics and management experts.Specialists from various streams would give lectures to the cabinet members during the eight-hour programme designed by the IIM-Kozhikode at its campus at Kunnamangalam.
The focus of the exercise would be help the ministers meaningfully use their time and energy to ensure good governance without getting bogged down by mental pressures of the job, a Chief Minister’s Office spokesperson said.
The programme, structured by the faculty of IIM-K, is titled’ Governance Insight for Transformation (GIFT)’.
It would cover topics such as time management, how to take fruits of governance to people, how to perform tasks and achieve goals without strain. Various economic and developmental issues of immediate concern would also come up for discussion during the session.
The idea of bringing ministers to the class room was mooted by IIM-K Director Debashish Chatterjee and Calicut Management Association president Roshan Kainadi.
Before entering the classroom, the chief minister and his colleagues will have a 45-minute interaction with IIM-K students.
3 comments:
Opposition leader shud also hv been included in the session & syllabus shud hv included governance without corruption/bias, how to behave in assembly and issue sensible statements.
Do you think IIMs create great managers? Recently Kerala Chief Minister and his entire team spent a day “learning” from IIM experts. Ask them what they really learned after fooling themselves in the IIM publicity stunt? It needs some courage to tell that the “King is naked”.
Bernard Shaw was right. "People who are able to do something well can do that thing for a living, while people who are not able to do anything that well make a living by teaching".
I startd living by teaching management in 1984 and stopped when I got fed up of that planning, organizing, reporting and budgeting rubbish served to innocent students who admired my ‘in depth knowledge’ of the "science of management".
I can now tell you the real fact as an insider. Those so called IIM "experts" and other academic management experts like me are absolute fakes. We are not even fit to manage a barber shop. If we teachers knew management, then there is no reason to spend our life in classrooms.
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