Comments on: Back to school http://6ampacific.com/2006/03/06/back-to-school/ Basab Pradhan's weblog about business and life in a 'flat world'. 6 AM Pacific is the best time for a global conference call. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:07:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Basab Pradhan http://6ampacific.com/2006/03/06/back-to-school/#comment-22 Basab Pradhan Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:57:46 +0000 http://sixampacific.com/?p=10#comment-22 Rustey, I think culture is real - in bschools, cricket teams and companies. After all, they are permanent though your membership may be transient. It is influenced certainly by who its members are, but it is not just the aggregate of its members. Leaders, for instance, have a way of molding the culture of a company (or cricket team). Rustey, I think culture is real - in bschools, cricket teams and companies. After all, they are permanent though your membership may be transient. It is influenced certainly by who its members are, but it is not just the aggregate of its members. Leaders, for instance, have a way of molding the culture of a company (or cricket team).

]]> By: rustey http://6ampacific.com/2006/03/06/back-to-school/#comment-21 rustey Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:13:41 +0000 http://sixampacific.com/?p=10#comment-21 I'm from the 90s batch, and one thing I can say about the WIMWIans (CCCF: well known institute of management in western india, the usual name for IIMA in its case studies) tend to be more entrepreneurial, or at least more daring in their mindset. I guess its a factor of the confidence they have in themselves, as well as their ability to wing-it. Even in the 90s there were plenty oddball courses that we took with much gusto - stuff like Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Realities, as well as Management for Excellence. Granted, that the startup fervour was weak - its probably because there were so few role models (only perhaps Bikhchandani from Naukri.com and the Core Parenterals folks), and so little incentive (given the high salaries you could command). Now, while the salaries have gone up, the role models become more visible - such as yourself. By the way, do you think there is such a thing as "culture" in transient teams? Whether you look at bschools, or cricket teams, or companies - people refer to the "culture" as if it were an entity separate from the people that form part of these transient teams. I’m from the 90s batch, and one thing I can say about the WIMWIans (CCCF: well known institute of management in western india, the usual name for IIMA in its case studies) tend to be more entrepreneurial, or at least more daring in their mindset. I guess its a factor of the confidence they have in themselves, as well as their ability to wing-it. Even in the 90s there were plenty oddball courses that we took with much gusto - stuff like Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Realities, as well as Management for Excellence. Granted, that the startup fervour was weak - its probably because there were so few role models (only perhaps Bikhchandani from Naukri.com and the Core Parenterals folks), and so little incentive (given the high salaries you could command). Now, while the salaries have gone up, the role models become more visible - such as yourself.

By the way, do you think there is such a thing as “culture” in transient teams? Whether you look at bschools, or cricket teams, or companies - people refer to the “culture” as if it were an entity separate from the people that form part of these transient teams.

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