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Not Your Average Business Class...

In the April 10th, 2006 issue, Time Magazine's "Inside Business" special section features a business professor, Srikumar Rao (Titled "B-School Buddhism", Carolina A. Miranda), who teaches a personal development class for business students at Columbia University. No accounting, finance, or marketing. This is all about your inner self and finding what motivates you, makes you a better leader, a helpful person, and in return a better team player who is willing to live by his/her ethics in the business world. In his classes, he uses Eastern spirituality and tries to make the future business leaders of America "grateful" and find meaningful interests that they can integrate into their own business careers. When students feel a little lost or question their priorities, he asks his students, "Is this what you want your legacy to be?" and to also ask themselves, "What can I do to make things better?"

He has a Ph.D in marketing from Columbia and also has a book out titled, Are You Ready to Succeed? Here's the official website for his book, and here's his bio from SAJA. Anyway, I think it's great that he's teaching his students to maintain their humanity and ethics in the corporate world and do something positive with their business knowledge. From his website though, it looks like he's asking students of all fields (regardless if you're a business major or not, or even interested in that field of study) to evaluate their lives, find their interests, and seize the day! Seems like he's the Deepak Chopra for the aspiring business leader;)

Unfortunately, Time Magazine online doesn't have the article yet, but it should be up by early next week. For now, look for it in the print edition or go to his website.

posted by payal @ 9:35 PM