India Observatory public lecture
Date: Monday 26 February 2008
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: S421, St Clements
Speaker: Mr R Gopalakrishnan
Chair: Dr David Billis
At this event, Mr Gopalakrishnan will make a presentation, based on his book, The Case of the Bonsai Manager (published in 2007 by Penguin India). The key idea of the talk concerns logic/analysis on one hand and intuition on the other:
Noone sets out to become a bonsai manager, just as no plant is created by Nature to be a bonsai. Managers' growth gets stunted by their own acts of omission and commission. To achieve their full potential, managers should explore new vistas of their being, drawing on their innate genius.'
Where Nature and management intersect, intuitive leadership is born. In the Case of the Bonsai Manager, R.Gopalakrishnan illustrates this by drawing management lessons from endearing stories about the animal kingdom. Drawing on his rich management career spanning forty years, initially with Unilever and more recently with the Tata Group, the author stresses that after all the analysis is done, it is gut instinct that should take over, as intuition will be a key differentiator for excellence in the future. The book dissects human nature and the complexity of employee behaviour within organizations. It nudges managers towards an agenda for change, for future managers will face vastly different challenges as the world around them gets dramatically transformed. The top-down approach will not work, but an inclusive and humane style of management will.
Mr Gopalakrishnan is director of Tata Sons Ltd.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
For more information please contact Scott Shurtleff, email s.shurtleff@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 7388
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