New Delhi : ERA Business School, one of India’s fastest growing B-Schools in India, has organised “The Second Industry Academia Dialogue” on Friday, 18th January, 2013 at their campus located at Dwarka. The conference was an intellectually stimulating interactive session amongst the industry masterminds and the academia. Here, the academia strives to comprehend the corporate perspective, so that management students can be trained to be industry ready. The Industry Academia Dialogue served as an ideal platform for the students to get well versed with corporate perspective.

The theme of the event was “Industry requires leaders who can manage, not managers who cannot lead” and the subject matter discussed has alternatively suggest, emphasize and reason on today’s industry requirement of leaders who can manage instead of the managers who cannot lead. Modern day corporate scenario has been taken into a prominent account throughout just about all discussions.

Renowned author and Management Guru, Mr. Shiv Khera was the key speaker of the event alongside top leaders of the industry namely, Mr. Arun Prakash Ray – Training head of Fullerton Securities India, Mr. Sandeep Dutta – General Manager Ambience Mall, Mr. Somit Makker – Director of Mirus Solution, Mr. Rohit Khatter – Deputy GM of Aircel,  Mr. Debasis Satapathi – Head HR of Bharti Foundation and Ms. Nidhi Agarwal – Sr. VP of Juliant Life sciences who also participated in the interactive session and shared their knowledge and experience on the various attributes that the industry seeks in a Leader and the difference between an effective leader and a good leader.

Emphasizing on the need of good leaders, Mr. Shiv Khera said, “Integrity, Values, and Ethics are the most important attributes of a Good Leader. The youth today want to start as CEO’s just because they hold an MBA degree. What they fail to realize is that one requires the qualities of a leader rather than a certificate to run an organization. What the industry needs today is an effective leader who can manage professionally based on values and ethics. There is a difference between an effective leader and a good leader, Hilter was an effective leader, but he wasn’t a good leader. A good leader is one who influences the thinking of people keeping their values and ethics intact.”

During this occasion, Era Business School also launched their newsletter “ERAGRAPH” designed to keep the students updated about the conferences and events organized at EBS. The newsletter covers the vision, mission, and goal of the institute alongside detailed information on all the events that were oragnised.

Stressing on the current mindset of the youth, Mr. Raj Sharma, Head-Corporate HR of Era Group said, “The managers today enter the industry with a preconceived notion that they are already industry ready and have learnt everything. They need to change this attitude and be more adaptive and disciplined with the right values. The industry needs people who know the significance and need for learning and then implementing.”

During the occasion Prof. Sanjiv Marwah, Director, ERA Business School (EBS) shares: “This is an unique opportunity for the academia and students to have an interaction with the industry leaders on the same platform. These interactive sessions help the students to enhance their leadership capacity and effectiveness in a complex and dynamic industry and groom them to face the challenges of tomorrow. Interaction and with the industry experts will help the students gain more confidence and broader perspectives of management in organisations.”

The Second Industry Academia Dialogue will quite certainly be a great value addition for all students largely because it will enable them takes their career ahead to their full potential, given the rather competitive industry today.