VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur Hosts Awdhesh Krishna, MD, Nomura

VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur Hosts Awdhesh Krishna, MD, Nomura

The students of VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur were honoured to have the Managing Director of Nomura, India, Mr. Awdhesh Krishna on its campus for a guest lecture on 23rd October 2009.

Keeping up with the challenging times that lie ahead, he chose to speak on the topic "Positioning yourself for the future". Interspersed with interesting examples, witty comments and inspiring one-liners, the lecture was truly refreshing and motivating, exactly what the students needed in the midst of exhaustive curriculum and ongoing summer placements. Mr. Sanjeev Duggal who is currently the Vice-President of Recruitment at Nomura accompanied him.

Mr. Krishna pointed out five traits that an individual or an organization must imbibe, in order to emerge as a winner in the coming years. An organization has got to be innovative beyond imagination and realize the potential of rapidly developing countries. Secondly, global integration through partnering with industries across borders, resulting in cross-fertilization of ideas, would give an organization an edge over others. Thirdly, he encouraged us to be disruptive by nature and never settle for the second best. To make his point clear he quoted a one-liner "Nobody 'wins' a Silver medal, he loses the Gold…" to which the entire audience nodded in appreciation.

Speaking on Corporate Social Responsibility measures taken up by organizations, he emphasized the need to be genuine and not just generous. Lastly, he emphasized that one has got to be hungry for change if one aims to be a cut above the rest and has to anticipate turbulence and plan bold responses, thereby developing core competence in change management.

Mr. Krishna, through his foresight and words of wisdom, left the students energized and motivated to overcome the upcoming challenges. He ended his speech by saying "The only person you can change is yourself", at which point the audience broke into a thunderous applause.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Saurabh Mishra,
IIT, Kharagpur.

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