Guest Lecture

Prof.M.S.Venugopal started his session by asking the fellows to decode themselves from past experiences & learned concepts. Prof. Venugopal made groups & asked fellows to come out with an idea that has novelty, distinctness, utility and inventabiity. He also asked each fellow to identify a name that they liked to be called. Fellows said that they want to be called as Mother Teresa, Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Rani Chennamma etc. Prof said that we should not be fascinated and emotion with regard to achievement of some others.  He said that all of us want to live a birth which has been popular, experimental and lived.  We want to recreate old miseries. We want to hunger to exist. Overcome hunger and misery. Think of a new idea of novelty by decoding ourselves.  Identify some character of human which is innovative and novel. Don’t try to relive the values of other persons. They have been experimented lived. Some new vision of man is vital in the course of living. Strength of humanity is reduced by profit motivation. Service makes people parasites, beggars & does not eradicate poverty. It does not build the strength of others. Social Entrepreneurs are interested in discovering something new apart from profit and service motive.  He wants to create independency of all kinds & empower people. Pepsi does not want to empower the people. Want to cultivate dependency. Every person is interested in our weakness, dependency. Social entrepreneurship creates strength, capabilities & independency. Social Entrepreneurship means creating not mere society but civil society.

Entrepreneurship is motivated by spirit of creativity, novelty. Something distinct alone solves problem. Having ideas is important. Thinking of feasibility, possibility makes lethargy.

Development concept is not to bring material comfort to those people who already have. Real development has to have the idea of involving of whole community. Evolve and involve. Not segregate, not disintegration.

Work for pleasure and happiness. While in the process of working, innovate and involve. We should have the attitude of the mother- she gives everything for the sake of child without expecting. There is a pleasure in giving pleasure. The idea of social entrepreneurship is to utilize our capacity for the sake of society & bring more and more circle of pleasure and capabilities.

We should come out false perception of service. Social entrepreneurship of bringing development is not to create gap, not to destroy the capacity of culture but to create and originate. Idea is not to commercialize but to socialize. Not to earn profit but to build the capacities. Not to create but to bridge the gap.

Mostly our ideas and development are unrealistic, and do not observe basic things. Without observation we try to impose our ego, perception with regard to development. We follow doctrine approach to development.

Business depends upon the weakness and wants of the people. Avoid dependency concepts. Build ideas, independent and freedom. Social entrepreneurship is liberating fellows of human being. We want to empower, build society & give skills.

Overcome inhibitions & false notions that act as great impediment to development. Build your capacities by building capacities of others. Development is not to impose, it is participatory and mutual. We should have courage, opposition and not taken by concepts that played a vital role in hindering the development.

Until we mix with common people, we cannot understand the life. Life in ivory tower is not fruitful to the society. We should pinch of life as is and understand the significance of life.

Earlier society is based on kinship, relationship and affinity. New society should be based on relation of interest. That is development.  Build a relation beyond our emotion and body. We should be pioneers of the development. We should create the purpose of interest. We should rise above physical aspects.

Development means being physically & mentally active. Keep body & mind intact. Decode yourself from doctrines, opinions, judgments. Go beyond physical development. Understand the capacity beyond physical level.

Prof said that Business Entrepreneurship faces competition whereas Social Entrepreneurship faces criticism.

            The entire session was based on activity which utilized all the five senses of the body. Prof.Venugopal brought out his concepts through games & songs. Fellows were motivated by his energy level & the way he analyzed the dimensions of Social entrepreneurship. He started & concluded the session sharply within the time allotted.

Prof T.S.Tikot Lecture

Pof T.S.Tikot

Brief Summary of the Lecture

          Prof.T.S.Tikot shared his experience in the context of CEO perspective, because CEO plays an important role in the organization building. Prof.Tikot organized his lecture into specific points & recapped each point after completion.

                        Any CEO must be mission oriented not project based or fund based. Prof. Tikot explained how his organization rejected a fund offered by multinational company to work on education in slum areas because his organization mission was to work in higher education. Later the same company referred many funding agencies observing organization commitment towards his mission. Prof Tikot also said that proper blend of 2P’s i.e. Professionalism and Passion is required for any CEO to succeed in his job in the long run. Highly focused to mission, Innovation, Self-satisfaction & unique contribution makes a CEO successful.

                        CEO should focus on building community, because organization roots are to be strong. Due to globalization & corporate culture entering into development sector, speedy, time bound operations and large deliverables is important. Building community helps in future expansion, intervention & investment

                        CEO should take an extra mile & set an example or model. Prof. Tikot explained how he changed the existing policy which had different yardsticks. The mobile charge of staffs upto Rs.500 was paid by the organization and for the CEO there was no such ceiling. Prof. Tikot made Rs.1000 as the ceiling for the CEO. Prof. Tikot said that honesty, transparency cannot be 99%, it should be 100%. Only functional Hierarchy should exist and CEO must be able to access without fear by everyone because fear obstructs creativity.

                        CEO should own the mistake and should not fix or make victim anyone for the mistake unless it relates to ethical behavior. CEO should educate about the mistake and see how to improve the system.

                        A lot of patience is required by the CEO at the time of crisis management. CEO should be a good listener and should not respond quickly. CEO should act as facilitator and make employees to realize their dream. Prof.Tikot suggested that Honesty, Transparency & integrity pays us in the long run apart from our core competency.

 

                        In the discussion session, a fellow asked Prof.Tikot to share his initial experience about how he started the organization. Prof. Tikot initially clarified not to replicate the model because it was started in an informal way without any professional or scalable approach. Initially a group of five members informally gave financial support to needy children drawing a small amount from their salary. Accidently a foreign donor came to know their work & offered to donate a larger amount. When funds came in larger amount there were forced to register the organization. Two close friends Vijay & Pramod kulkarni suggested to open a Development Resource Centre (DRC) which acted as office place for more than 5 NGO’s consisting computer & other office facilities. These resulted in cutting the administration cost of these NGO’s to almost nil. 

                        In an another question, a fellow asked that when she knows the internal system of an organization and feels that it does not suits its personality, she will be in the dilemma whether to quit or stay in the organization. Prof.Tikot suggested that we should not go for an ideal system. As far as system is open & prepare to listen your opinions, we should manage to live with it.