All across the\u00a0world,business education has quite a narrow focus. The application oriented subjects which have got practical value are being taught to students. This serves well when the pace of technological, economic and social change is slow and managers\u00a0mostly have to act with functional knowledge. When the pace of change\u00a0quickens, managers must\u00a0wear leader’s hat and think broadly beyond their\u00a0functional knowledge.<\/p>\n
The best B-schools of the world claim to educate leaders who are going to make a difference in the world. To make this happen, B-schools need to look at the curriculum more closely and bring in the broad liberal education component which can make\u00a0students think and act like leaders whose action will have impact on society at large. The broad liberal education should\u00a0include subjects\u00a0like political science, sociology, literature, study of classics , history, business history, philosophy and ethics and evolution of science and technology. The broad liberal management education will stretch imagination of\u00a0management student beyond functional knowledge.\u00a0 Writing and public speaking skills should also be taught to make the\u00a0offering complete.<\/p>\n
Creating authentic,\u00a0ethical and visionary business leaders should\u00a0 be the main aim of business school. These leaders can act as entrepreneurs\u00a0and can also don the hat\u00a0of\u00a0 a manager for day to day functioning if required. But they essentially remain a leader with broad social , economic and technological vision. They make ethical choices in their decision making. Without these kind of leaders , organizations will not thrive. In fact, companies like Enron \u00a0and Satyam\u00a0 lost enormous value\u00a0because of lack of those kind of authentic leaders.<\/p>\n
Leaders\u00a0with broad and general education have done pretty well. Anand Mahindra is one example who pursed film making and liberal arts education . Steve Jobs quest for calligraphy\u00a0,spiritualism and\u00a0Zen Buddhism’s simplicity and\u00a0aesthetics had enormous influence on\u00a0business decisions\u00a0he took .\u00a0To get the glimpse of Bill Gate’s mind , one has to look at his wide and varied reading list.\u00a0Leaders always look beyond immediate environment . Broad liberal education will help him doing that.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0Mr\u00a0Rahul K.Mishra<\/em> All across the world,business education has quite a narrow focus. The application oriented subjects which have got practical value are being taught to students. This serves well when the pace of technological, economic and social change is slow and managers mostly have to act with functional knowledge. When the pace of change quickens, managers must wear leader’s hat and think broadly beyond their functional knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-general-blog"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nProfessor- Strategy and International Business, IILM.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"