>Unconventional (here in after referred as U) - the word I came across several times today
The latest tryst was while skimming through some dailies of Montreal. I had picked up this yellow paper to wile away sometime between two sessions on Strategies for Sustainable Development. The other trysts were in the class, where every other perspective in discussion talked about being U. This all started with narration by each class member's experience in their past roles with sustainable solutions. And ideas ranged from ships ballast water handling to green buildings to Lufthansa efficiency project.....covering water, land and air.
On reflecting back on past four months experience in IPMX, I collate below some more conspicuous Us.
The IPMX course started, in its very first session, in a U set-up of classroom. The classroom where we started our course was a big open hall with no furnishings inside. The next 2 hours brought my first tee-a-tee with outside classroom learning touted by most B-school. We started with an unconventional approach and tempo stands till date.
The delivery of most course are U and conspicuously different than most of other places I have compared with. There have been courses on integrating Indus civilisation with present day globalisation issues, Satyam fiasco with typical entrepreneurial organisation structure, CAT's back-hoe market challenges to APM and many more.
A course on legal environment was unconventional in its entire delivery based on day-to-day examples from Bollywood to Pharmaceuticals. The class discussions regularly picked up latest news from newspaper to analyse on possible business solution within legal constraints.
We had a discussion session with Sir Henry Mintzberg yesterday at McGill University on his unconventional approach to management practices. And today we are looking forward to a session with a leading legal firms CEO on his recent entry experience into Asian markets.
And here comes the unconventional abrupt end.
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