Sapience: Developing Leaders to Perform in Uncertainty; The Mindfulness Solution
'Sapience', SPJIMR's new podcast series, features conversations on the practical aspects of wisdom-based leadership and various global and societal issues.
In its first episode, Dr Surya Tahora speaks to Leadership Development Advisor Dr Elizabeth King about mindfulness; does the evidence match the hype, and can we distinguish between mindfulness's peripheral and deeper side? They discuss the implications for organisations, what goes on in senior leadership rooms, and do those decisions serve the greater good.
The series is brought to you by SPJIMR Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).
Listen to the first episode here:
Sapience: Advancing the science of wise reasoning in management
Faculty member Dr Surya Tahora is in conversation with Dr Justin Brienza, University of Queensland Business School.
They discuss why despite extensive work on wisdom research it is yet to percolate to the Organisations. They also talk about how 'wise reasoning' can benefit organisations where intelligence, emotional intelligence and cognitive ability fail.
The series is brought to you by SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL).
Listen to the first episode here:
Past Imperfect: Indian Histories of Business, Politics, and Leadership
Past Imperfect: Podcast Series
SPJIMR's new podcast series, "Past Imperfect," explores leadership from a historical perspective while bridging the past and present. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership CWIL and features conversations with authors of recent works of global and Indian history and explores political and economic leadership in unusual or unconventional situations.
Listen to the first episode here:
Past Imperfect: Thinking about Constitutions with Linda Colley
Historian and Author Linda Colley is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dr Dinyar Patel.
Linda Colley's 'The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen' is a wide-ranging exploration of the development of constitutions, a book which demonstrates how increasingly violent warfare led to the worldwide spread of these documents between the 18th and early 20th centuries. In this episode, Colley discusses global influences on Indian constitutional thought, the relevance of constitutions today, and why historians need to write accessible books.
"Past Imperfect," explores leadership from a historical perspective while bridging the past and present. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) and features conversations with authors of recent works of global and Indian history and explores political and economic leadership in unusual or unconventional situations.
Listen to the second episode here:
Past Imperfect: A Man and a (Five-Year) Plan with Nikhil Menon
Dr Nikhil Menon, Author and Professor, University of Notre Dame, is in conversation with SPJIMR Prof. Dr Dinyar Patel.
“In ‘Planning Democracy’ Nikhil Menon takes us to the summit of Nehruvian planning in the 1950s and 1960s—and what we find there might surprise us. The story of India’s first Five-Year Plans involved a genius professor, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis; deft Cold War diplomacy; and the introduction of India’s first computers. But it was also about so much more: an attempt to make planning ‘democratic,’ a project which involved rural volunteers, Bollywood talent, and even sadhus.”
Listen to the third episode here:
SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) conducted four webinars in the series 'Past Imperfect: Indian Histories of Business, Politics, and Leadership'. The series featured conversations with special guests every week on topics related to Histories of Business, Politics and Leadership.
In the inaugural event, we bring to you an exciting conversation with Mircea Raianu, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2021)." This is the first book to extensively engage with the Tata's archival records, thereby providing a sweeping narrative of a corporation which has played an outsized role in the making of modern #India. Raianu was in conversation with R Gopalakrishnan and Dinyar Patel.
We bring to you a conversation with Vinay Sitapati, Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Ashoka University and author of Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India. Half-Lion chronicles the life of one of India's most consequential prime ministers. It explores how, against seemingly insurmountable opposition, Rao was able to implement reforms which put India on the path towards economic liberalization. Sitapati was in conversation with Dinyar Patel.
We bring to you an exciting conversation with Danish Khan (journalist and historian) and Ruhi Khan (independent journalist), author of "Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London". Escaped examines the lives of several high-profile Indian fugitives abroad, from Vijay Mallya to Iqbal Mirchi, and asks an important question: why do they all flee to London? They were in conversation with Dinyar Patel and Mihir Ajgaonkar of S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research.
We bring to you an exciting conversation with Ross Bassett, author of The Technological Indian (Harvard University Press, 2016). Bassett's book examines the very roots of India's IT economy, demonstrating how Indians from B.G. Tilak to Mahatma Gandhi played a role in fostering technological education in India -- and, in particular, how the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inspired Indians. He was in conversation with Dinyar Patel.
