"Management Thoughts and Quotes"

1. Management Thoughts and
Quotes

2. MBA Schools in India
• About 1500 Managemt. Schools
• About one lakh graduates/annum
• TN has 105 Business Schools
• Top 100 B Schools – Pune has 9; TN has 6
• Ranking : LIBA 34; PSGIM 39; BIM 44; Amrita
IM 47; RECT/NITT 70; Inst. for Tech. & Mgmt.
Chennai 97.

3. The IIMs of India - Existing
• Ahmadabad
• Bangalore
• Calcutta
• Indore
• Kozhikode
• Lucknow

4. The IIMs of India - Proposed
• Chattisgarh
• Haryana
• Jharkhand
• Uttarakhand
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Rajiv Gandhi IIM, Shillong
• Tamil Nadu

5. Employability
• NASSCOM Report
• McKinsey Study
• Only 25 % Engg./Mgmt. Grads. employable
• Only 12% of HE cohort enter University
• 160,000 Indians go abroad/annum for HE
• Over 50 yrs. of under investmt. in HE
• 450 Univs., 20,000 Colleges & 12m Studs.

6. Research & Development
• ASCI reports 80% of Indian Cos. –zero spend
on R & D
• No. of papers in Internatl. Journals:
• India China
• 2000 11,000 10,000
• Now 19,000 50,000
• Reduction of Science content
• Analytical, Design, Innovation Skills

7. Shortage of Faculty
• IISc, Bangalore : 210 for 478
• NITs : 2603 for 3747
• IITs : 2983 for 4267 [Lok Sabha,Dec. 2009]
• Paucity of qualified Scientists for R & D
• Need of the hour: A Scientific Culture
• Natl. Foundn. For Sc. & Engg. Proposed with
Rs. 1000 Crore budget/annum ! -- PM

8. Management Jargon-1
• SWOT Analysis
• TQM/ ISO
• Turnover
• Inventory
• Production/Productivity
• GDP – 3 Sectors; Per Capita GDP
• ERP – SAP - BHAN

9. Management Jargon-2
• Bench Marking
• Q1 Profit
• Operation Research
• Tag Line
• ITES
• Decade/Century/Millennium
• Million/Billion/Trillion
• Mega/Giga/Tera

10. Management Thoughts-1
• PLATO : The beginning is the most important
part of the work. Truth is eternal.
• DESCARTES : I think, therefore I am.
• Chndogya Upanishad : Where there is
creation, there is progress.
• KURAN : God helps those who persevere.
• Sir ISAAC NEWTON : If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.

11. Management Thoughts-2
• Think! There must be a better way.
• Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
• GARY PACKER : The harder I worked, the
luckier I got.
• When the going gets tough, the tough gets
going.
• The best photograph in the world is no
good, if it is still in the camera

12. Management Thoughts-3
• Management : To manage men tactfully!
• Managing the certainty is routine; managing
the uncertainty is the real thing.
• Planning is commanding the future, rather
than being commanded by it.
• If I have 8hrs. to chop the wood, I would
spend 6 hrs. sharpening the axe.

13. Management Thoughts-4
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: It is a capital mistake
to theorize before one has data.
• The test of an organization is not its
genius, but its capacity to make common
people achieve uncommon performance.
• R L Stevenson: An aim in life is the only
fortune worth funding; and it is not to be
found in foreign lands; but in the heart itself.

14. Management Thoughts-5
• To love the beauty life imparts,
To know the joy of giving,
To hold a song within your heart,
This is the art of living!
• A good organizl. Structure doesn’t guarantee
good pfce., just as a good constitution doesn’t
guarantee good Presidents; but poor organizl.
structure makes good perfce. Impossible.
• Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself!

15. Management Thoughts-6
• Graveyards are full of indispensable people!
• If you offer peanuts, you’ll get only monkeys!
• A cheap employee is very costly!
• Hire people smarter than you!
• NAPOLEAN : There are no bad soldiers; only
bad officers!
• The human mind is like a parachute; it works
only when open.

16. Management Quotes-1
• The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep;
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep! – Robert Frost
• Change the traditional role from:
Commander to Coach; Manager to Mentor;
Director to Delegator; One who demands respect
to One who facilitates self respect. Dr. APJ Abdul
Kalam.

17. Management Quotes-2
• Jawaharlal Nehru’s Convocation Address at
Allahabad University in 1947 December:-
A university stands for
Humanism, Tolerance, Reason, Adventure of
Ideas and the Onward March of the Human
Race!
* Martin Luther King : Science has overcome
religion; therefore we have Guided Missiles
and Misguided Men!

18. Management Quotes-3
• Martin Luther King : In the end, we will
remember, not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends!