LEADERSHIP AND LIFE MANAGEMENT
Tuesday, 28 March 2023 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
There are many challenges facing business corporations today-the pandemic we have barely moved on from, economic recession, rapid changes in consumer behaviour and technological and competitive disruptions. These challenges stick out like the visible tip of an iceberg, while culture, the biggest challenge, is like the slow-moving, gigantic mass that lurks deep under the surface. We cannot deal sufficiently with superficial problems if we do not understand the depths that drive them.
'Culture eats strategy for breakfast' is a widely accepted saying in the business world, often attributed to Peter Drucker. This is as true for corporate India as it is for its consumers. Yet, we spend more time and money studying our consumers and their cultures than we do ourselves.
The Company We Keep is a market research-based exploration of Indian corporate culture. It looks beyond the glamour and jargon of the business world to individual stories that share real personal insights into the aspirations, vulnerabilities, pressures and possibilities of corporate careers and lives. These are urgent conversations we need to keep having as we reflect, review and decide where we can go from here.
PROGRAMME
4:30 PM High Tea & Networking
5:00 PM
Welcome Address & Introduction
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM
Executive Director, Madras Management Association
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Dr Shankar M Venugopal
Chairman, MMA Chengalpattu Chapter
Address by the Speaker on "Leadership"
Swami Muktidanandaji
Ramakrishna Math, Mysore
Address by the Speaker on "Spirituality and Life Management"
Swami Mahamedhanandaji
Correspondent, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), Mysore
6:00 PM
Q & A Vote of Thanks
Mr G P Senthilvel
Co-Chairman, MMA Chengalpattu Chapter
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SPEAKER
Swami Muktidanandaji Maharaj is the Adhyaksha of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru and a Trustee of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. He is a post-graduate in science from the Institute of Science, Mumbai University. He joined the Ramakrishna Order at Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysore in 1982. He was initiated by Revered Swami Vireswaranandaji
Maharaj and had his Sannyasa Diksha from Revered Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj in the year 1993. He served at Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala, a premier residential Educational Institution of Mysore centre itself for over two decades and as its Chief Administrator for 16 years.
Subsequently, he served as the head of Ramakrishna Mission, Mumbai and Advaita Ashrama at Kolkata and Mayavati, Himalayas before coming back to Mysore again as the head of the Mysore Ashrama in April 2019. He has contributed articles to monthly journals of the Ramakrishna Order like Prabuddha Bharata, Vedanta Kesari and Viveka
Swami
Muktidanandaji
Prabha. He has a special grounding in Education, Indian Philosophy, Yoga Psychology and Indian Culture. He has given a series of talks in “Chintana” Radio programme of Akashavani, Mysuru.
SPEAKER
Swami Mahamedhanandaji is a sannyasi of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, established by Swami Vivekananda in 1897. He joined the Order in 2004 and has served in its Value Education Project for two years. Then for over 9 years he served as hostel superintendent, college lecturer, and Joint Controller of Examinations at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, a fullyresidential UG to PhD college for men adjacent to Belur Math in West Bengal. He was for over 6 years, the editor of The Vedanta Kesari, a monthly cultural and spiritual English magazine published from Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. During this period, he was the Spiritual Mentor of Vivekananda Study Circle, a student body of IIT Madras, and he also served as a member of IIT Madras, Ethics Committee.
Swami
Mahamedhanandaji
From January 2023, he is serving as the Correspondent of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE), a unit of Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru, engaged in training students, teachers, and the general public in living the higher values. He has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Mysore and delivers talks in educational institutions, faculty development programmes, and corporate companies
