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Absolute failure is an impossibility - LbnRaj

Absolute failure is an impossibility - LbnRaj

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This very moment is Golden!!!!

May 17, 2012

This very moment is Golden!!!!

When people around me are critical about me  and my activities / work .... I  re-assert myself to be on my  toes to come upto the mark. This is good. Let me not be critical about my critics. Let me realise that every day is an examination .... and I have to pass each day with good marks. This philosophy I am sure has brought lot of positive air into my life. Let me continue to be true to this moment, this hour and this day .... I hope tomorrow and the days that follow will take care of themselves. God is great .... he continues to be besides me all the time day in and day out. I dont think I will ever feel lonely henceforth.

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should managers be ethical? ......

 

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Should Managers be Ethical?

Rajashekhar S. Devarai*

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings". – Pearl S.Buck

1. Often street corner and coffee table discussions end up with resolutions like, 'Ethics is out of fashion", 'being good means being helpless and poor and so on.  These discussions and gossips have no heads no tails.  The topics and temperaments in such deliberations are incidental and transitory in nature.  Many a time these are a strong response to some evident injustice, corruption and supposedly erroneous political decision or policy.  Critical deliberations of people in general are about standards, expectations, deviations and practices.  ..............
2. Whether we like or nit, human behavior revolves around do's and don'ts, good and bad, desirable and un desirable.  Human civilization from time immemorial has advocated welfare and inclusiveness and ethics irrespective of countries and continents.  We may tend to be averse to being ethical but whether to be ethical or not is beyond all contests.  
3. How can we then relax a Manager to be out of the purview of ethical considerations?  A Manager is a man or woman who happens to be intelligent, educated, smart, action driven, pro-business and pro-development and who is bent upon maximizing returns for shareholders.  Is it very necessary that he indulges himself / herself in un ethical practices to ensure higher returns?
4. What made Harvard professors say, "Managers today are among the least trusted members of society" (Khurana, R and Nohria, N : 2008).  This line speaks volumes about the image, status and standing of Manager as a professional.  Why don't people trust Managers?  The answer to this can never be simple and straight. 
5. The journey towards professionalism is a continuum.  There are no water tight compartments between professions and non-professions.  The question is all about the extent to which the answers to the above questions are affirmative.  Everything including the sincere answers to the questions boils down to winning the trust of not just all share holders and all stake holders but people at large and society at large.  The more the Managers answer the above questions in affirmations more the society at large trusts and makes way for Management towards a full fledged profession comparable to that of Medicine and Law.
6. It has taken years for medicine and law to emerge as full fledged professions.  There is nothing that stops Management to achieve and bag this coveted title.  Falling in their line with Ethical Orientation will go a long way in professionalizing Management.  "We believe that professionalizing Management would greatly curb mis-conduct, because moral behavior is an integral part of professionals identity – a self image most want strongly to preserve"(Khurana and Nohria, 2008).  Great transformations  are in with regard to value systems concerning money, business and Business Management.
7. Yes, the day is not very far, when the Manager professes, when the Manager manages by skills, experience and knowledge, when the Manager widens the scope of the much criticized/stereotyped  mysterious word 'MANAGE'.
8. Let the 'Hippocratic Oath for Managers' drawn by Khuran and Nohria catch the much awaited attention of Managers, Management Gurus, Management Institutions far and wide.

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References :

1.      Khurana, K and Nohria, N.2008. It is time to Make Management a True Profession.-Harvard Business Review 86(10) October 2008 (http://web.ebscohost.com).

2.      Jayaswal, P.K.1990.Librarianship and Bureaucratic Organization.-New Delhi:Concept.

Additional Readings :

1.      Devarai,R.S.2011.Management practice graduating towards professionalism.-Samadhan (Annual Magazine 2010/11).

2.      Devarai,R.S and Ramesh L.S.R.C.V.1999. Librarianship and the Professional Model : a Sociological Tutorial and Critique.-Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies 36(3).

3.      Johnson, T.J.1972.Profession and Power.-London : Macmillan Press.

4.      Khurana,R.2007.Higher Aims to Hired Hands : The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press).

For more read further at : Should Managers be Ethical?/Rajashekhar Devarai.-Samadhan - Annual Magazine 2012.- Bhubaneswar : ASBM Institute of BBA

 

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ASBM Invites applications for the posts of Deputy Librarian / Assistant Librarians / Professional Library Trainees

Asian School of Business Management

February 6, 2012

ASBM Invitesapplications for the posts of Deputy Librarian / Assistant Librarians /Professional Library Trainees

Asian School of Business Management (ASBM), a faculty driven B-School, developed with the philosophy of the IIMs, under the dynamic leadership of the well-known management Guru Lagaan Professor Dr. Biswajeet Pattanayak,  has state-of-the-art mega campuses at Bhubaneswar & Hyderabad. The Institute provides ultra-modern facilities for teaching, research, training, consulting and career growth, benchmarking the IIMs. Chanakya Central Library is the centre place of all Academic, Information and Knowledge endeavors of the Institute. Students / Faculty have access to a rich and diverse collection of books , periodicals. Book Collection comprises of Reference Books, Text Books, Student Works, Faculty Working Papers, Entrepreneurship Special Collection, Harvard Collection. Main focus being on Management and allied subjects the collection boosts of every domain of knowledge from Philosophy, Logic, Sciences, Social Sciences to History and Geography / History. Apart from subscribing print versions of Journals / magazines the Library subscribes to two major online Journal Data bases viz EBSCO and Jgate – JSMS. Documentation / Information Services include : ASBM Business Updates, New Additions, User Orientation, Library Internship / Training for fresh Post Graduates in Library Information Science etc. Future plans comprise digital initiative, introduction of RFID, conduct of : LIS training programs, hosting of National Seminars / Conferences / Workshops etc.

Applications are invited for the positions of Deputy Librarian / Assistant Librarians from Post Graduates in Library and Information Science. Preference will be given to those candidates who have exposure / experience to/in Classification (DDC), Libsys, EBSCO, Proquest, JGate, Information Technology/Computer Applications.  Salary / emoluments as per academic credentials / experience. The posts carry usual facilities/allowances as per institute's norms. 

Applications for the positions of Dy.Librarian and Assistant Librarians with latest CV/Biodata,  testimonials with photograph may be sent / forwarded to the following address  within 15 days from the date of this announcement. Please send Advance copy of Applications/CV Biodata by email to :   recruitment@asbm.ac.in  and chieflibrarian@asbm.ac.in .

Fresh Post Graduates in LIS may enroll themselves for our Internship / On Job Training of six months (extendable by another six months based on pace of learning/requirement etc) by forwarding their application/Biodata-cv. The Trainees will be eligible for a monthly stipend of Rs.5000.00pm. The enrollment is open through out the year. Based on ASBM Programme Schedule / Requirement, the candidates will be called in to undergo training based on performance in Interviews.

The Group Director, Asian School of Business Management, Corporate Office, Sai Anandam Complex, Patia Square, Bhubaneswar – 751024, Phone – 0674 2374812/ 2744881 / 0674 2374801 / 0674 2374832,  . www.asbm.ac.in

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E-Books and Libraries: 25 Resources

E-Books and Libraries: 25 Resources

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Let us start our new life in 2012 with new found faith, belief and confidence….. then every thing will be beautiful, meaningful, peaceful and luxurious and prosperous.

“The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward.  Eternal vigilance is the price of success.  There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential.  You must first have the knowledge of your power, second the courage to dare, third the faith to do.” _ Charles F Haanel (Sacred Space, Times of India, January 2, 2012).

It is just timely to read this wonderful peace of advice from Charles F Haanel on moving forward. He has emphasized on the role of eternal vigilance in achieving success. He lays stress on having three things to success, One : knowledge of our power, Second : The courage to dare, Third : the faith to do. The three must have things prescribed by Haanel are great and unique …. But the order of listing should be the reverse , i.e., the first should be the Faith to do, second should be The Courage to dare and The third should be Knowledge of our power. Haanel’s prescription is more of practical wisdom.

The achievement and success otherwise should start with Faith, Belief and Confidence….. Let us resolve to step into the new year with eternal vigilance. Happy new year to all. Let us start our new life in 2012 with new found faith,  belief and confidence….. then every thing will be beautiful, meaningful, peaceful and luxurious and prosperous.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

RAJASHEKHAR DEVARAI

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Digital World and Digital Economy

 

Digital world and digital economy

December 25, 2011

Digitization will be the next big thing for the rest of the century.

“Digitization is creating a second economy that is vast, automatic and invisible- there by bringing the biggest change since industrial revolution.” – Brian Arthur (Digital Wave : The Second Economy/W.Brian Arthur.-Indian Management 50(1), November 2011. 80-87. Other books by the same author : Increasing returns and path Dependence in the Economy , University of Michigan  Press, 1994 ; The Nature of technology what it is and how it evolves (Free Press, August 2009)

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A two headed boy

 

A two headed boy

December 25, 2011

Human mind is curious and explorative by nature.  Human starts reasoning on any fact or fiction – on what, where, how , how much, when and ultimately why?  When it comes to the questions of why of facts fictions, scientists carry objective and scientific research where metaphysicists, philosophers and saints question science and try to go  beyond.  Science starts with fiction and ends with fiction not the other way round.  As reported in Times of India a two headed boy was born to a Brazilian woman last Monday and the doctors were not sure if they can operate on him as he shares on heart, lungs, liver and pelvis.  I hope and wish the two boys survive with their single body.  Let scientists and doctors keep busy wondering and doing research for days together while the two faces single body talk together and smile at each other and fight at times.  When fiction bares itself, it is no longer a fiction, it becomes a fact.  However every thing starts with fiction and ends with fiction.

Rajashekhar Devarai

Lotus5673@yahoo.co.in ; References : 1. Times of India / A two headed boy was born.-Times of India, December, 25, 2011 ; 2. Times of India / Visions of angels could just be lucid dreams.-Times of India, December 25, 2011

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Lucid dreams !

 

Lucid Dreams !

December 25, 2011

People and scientists and metaphysicists should look beyond the results of the study conducted on biblical religious encounters by Michael Raduga reported in LiveScience Sleep Researchers conducted at Out of Body Experience Centre in Los Angeles is indeed a yeomen service to unlock the universal mysteries and myths.  The results of such studies should not in any way be believed or taken on their face value.  Such results should be taken as only elementary and crude explorations of cosmic consciousness.  Fictions are more true  and universal than facts.  Facts will have no value and substance in the absence of fictions.  And hence study of fictions attract more attention and hard work to explore and experiment compared to facts which are amenable to human capabilities.  There are millions of such angel encounters / extra body experiences in other religious / spiritual faiths as well.  It is time, we open up the flood gates of metaphysical researches further on such elementary findings.  Well done Raduga, let the so called out of science researchers start off further on where you left.  Congrats!  Whether we wish or not fictions abound our human life more than facts and angels / apsara’s and devakanyas frequent us more often than we think and find out.  Angels Jindabad ! Fictions jindabad !

Rajashekhar Devarai

Lotus5673@yahoo.co.in : Reference : Times of India / Visions of angels could just be lucid dreams.-Times of India, December 25, 2011.

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Lucid dreams !

 

Lucid Dreams !

December 25, 2011

People and scientists and metaphysicists should look beyond the results of the study conducted on biblical religious encounters by Michael Raduga reported in LiveScience Sleep Researchers conducted at Out of Body Experience Centre in Los Angeles is indeed a yeomen service to unlock the universal mysteries and myths.  The results of such studies should not in any way be believed or taken on their face value.  Such results should be taken as only elementary and crude explorations of cosmic consciousness.  Fictions are more true  and universal than facs.  Facts will have no value and substance in the absence of fictions.  And hence study of fictions attract more attention and hard work to explore and experiment compared to facts which are amenable to human capabilities.  There are millions of such angel encounters / extra body experiences in other religious / spiritual faiths as well.  It is time, we open up the flood gates of metaphysical researches further on such elementary findings.  Well done Raduga, let the so called out of science researchers start off further on where you left.  Congrats!  Whether we wish or not fictions abound our human life more than facts and angels / apsara’s and devakanyas frequent us more often than we think and find out.  Angels Jindabad ! Fictions jindabad !

Rajashekhar Devarai

Lotus5673@yahoo.co.in : Reference : Times of India / Visions of angels could just be lucid dreams.-Times of India, December 25, 2011.

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 Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.   Ramana Maharshi
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Thank God ....

Thank God. Thank you Blogger for saving my blog.
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One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. Henry Ford (Source : http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/failure.html)

One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
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What do we librarians do in this new connected world? towards a new Road Map!

What do we Librarians do in this new connected world? Towards a new Road Map!

Lbn.Rajashekhar Devarai

Chief Librarian, Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar.

November 13, 2011

Based on different reports and surveys Robert Rego sums up the new connected world in the following ways :

1. By 2020 almost everything from cameras to tooth brushes will become connected adding upto 50 billion connected divices.
2. Technology will bring about huge changes in the way we work share and care about our fellow human beings.
3. 5 billion people will have broad band by 2016 and a majority of them will use the connectivity facility on their mobile phone.
4. For every on there has to be the solution that eases the digital life.  Taking into account the micro solutions and being able to offer the life changing technology at competitive prices is what we need and can all redefining the digital life style.
5. The mobile worker population will exceed one billion this year and 1.2 billion by 2013.
6. To enable a true digital life style one needs consumer cloud services platforms which encompasses various aspects of a digital life style.

How prepared are we as librarians to cater to and cope up  with this new and emerging digital life style of people. Should technologists, scientists and engineers migrate to librarianship for effective confrontation.  Should librarianship open its gates of admissionb to more of science and engineering graduates? Should we think of a four year Library Technology Programme for +2 students? What happens to the librarians who are trainined in age old LIS concepts inclined more towards paper and print?

At times we accept that our profession is at cross road…….. or is it that we are at multiple corss roads?  Knowingly or unknowingly every one of us (librarians) viz practitioners, teachers and scholars seem to be puzzled, taken aback, confused over the fast pace of technological changes that push us,  sideline us and rubbish us often.

It is indeed a challenge and opportunity as well.  Professions are never static these days.  Before they consolidate their status and position they are at cross roads very often.  And in the process they transform their intellectual assets and skills faster and faster.  Nbow this is the age of constant adaptation and change for modern active professionals and professions.  Librarinship is not an exception to this.  Sooner than later, with or without librarians the modern library / information knowledge clientele will find their appropriate professionals, tools and techniques to serve them to guide them and inspire them.  Digital life style is already in.  Librarians cannot afford to be away and aloof from this all pervading, all encompassing pressure and influence and invasion of digits.

Let us be awake and aware, lest we will be left behind many miles behind and we would be lost in the wilderness of global competitions and melt downs!

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Reference

1.      Robert Rego/You are connected.-Times of India, November 13, 2011

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