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Workplace Blues? Call a "Happiness Coach" - WSJ.com, January 27, 2010 |
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Is the mood around your office a little blue these days? If so, you’re not alone. Amid layoffs, mounting workloads and a shaky economy, employee satisfaction has hit the lowest level in the 22-year history of the Conference Board’s annual survey on the topic.
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Thinking Happy Thoughts at Work - WSJ.com, January 27, 2010 |
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Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center, Middletown, Conn., feels stressed-out by mounting workloads. And she didn't expect to get much help during her employer's annual staff meeting last November-just the usual speeches on medical issues.
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FastCompany.com, January 13, 2010 |
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Every couple of months I gather in New York a group of heads of strategy at large, non-competing firms for an open, confidential discussion about challenges and opportunities. Yesterday we invited Professor Srikumar Rao to facilitate our discussion.
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DNA India: Great CEOs never treat people like robots - December 16, 2009 |
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Srikumar Rao is a maverick professor, writer and one of the hottest business gurus. He has helped people on Wall Street manage stress and coached executives at Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, United Airlines, Google and Microsoft. He developed his course, "Creativity and Personal Mastery," in the mid-90s and has taught it at Columbia Business School, the London Business School and the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, California. Rao hands out eclectic reading lists and his lectures include mental exercises, breathing, meditation and "total immersion exercises."
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Harvard Business Publishing: For Managers, Blog - September 3, 2009 |
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Thanks to everyone who responded to last week's post about whether work should make us happy. There are some great insights and suggestions from readers on how they manage this difficult balance, from the philosophical to the personal and practical. |
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Success Magazine - Excerpts from Are You Ready to Succeed - September, 2009 |
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The first block to personal mastery and one of the biggest - is our unquestioned mental models. These are our fixed ideas of how the world works and how things should or shouldn’t be done. We accept these models so completely that we live our lives according to them. Everyone has mental models, but we call them by other names, like "the truth" or "reality" or "the facts". |
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The Economic Times - Human touch helps team members perform better - May 08, 2009 |
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It’s a tough economy and it will get tougher. Competition is fiercer than it has ever been. Customers are more demanding and price sensitive. Employees are looking for greater fulfilment at work. Shareholders want outsized, even unreasonable returns. Everyone has their hooks into your flesh. And you, the leader, have to satisfy all these constituencies. |
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The Economic Times - Successful entrepreneurship: A sense of well being - February 20, 2009 |
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IT’S COMMONPLACE FOR universities to have thriving
alumni associations, but when one hears of an alumni
association for one single course, one tends to sit up
and take notice. Then again, it isn’t everyday that professors
prescribe a reading list that ranges from A Search in Secret
India and PG Wodehouse to Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience, to be finished before Day One of a programme
titled ‘Creative and Personal Mastery’. |
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The New York Times - Emotional Striptease, and Other Paths to Ethics |
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ON a crisp morning last September, Srikumar S. Rao leaned upon a lectern, set his marble-shaped eyes on 35 Columbia Business School students and simply stared. Cellphones silenced and BlackBerries muted, these aspiring executives stared back, then began eyeing one another more anxiously with each mounting minute. |
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ISBinsight - The New Age of Capitalism - December, 2008 |
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"Work hours are so gruelling these days that
if you don’t love what you do, you are in hell,"
said Dr Rao in a 2005 interview with the Wall
Street Journal. "You need the work you do to
express your values and be of benefit to the
larger society. This is very,
very important, but is not acknowledged at
most Business schools, let alone addressed."
In town to talk further about his beliefs
and teachings at the "First International
Conference on Igniting the Genius Within",
Srikumar Rao, Professor, Columbia Business
School, sat down for a discussion with Prasad
Kaipa, Executive Director of the Centre for
Leadership, Innovation, and Change, ISB.
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Management Today - What's luck got to do with it? - February 1, 2008 |
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Do other people seem to get all the breaks? Well, you should be so lucky. But you'll have to put yourself in the way of opportunity: get out of your routine, talk to people, share your ideas - and persevere. Fortune smiles on the brave, says sporting Dave Waller.
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The Guardian - Who taught them greed is good? - March 8, 2009 |
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To what extent are business schools' MBA courses responsible for the global financial crash? Peter Walker reports
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The Guardian - Humility, the key to management success - January 22, 2008 |
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A report says learning to be aggressive pays off at the top, but business schools in the UK are not so sure.
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FT.com - MBAs’ guide to lasting fulfilment - August 26, 2007 |
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(FT) -- It is a rare business school programme that invokes in its participants a similar fervour to that experienced in a revivalist religious meeting. But this would appear to be the case with Srikumar Rao’s elective course, Creative and Personal Mastery.
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CNN.com - The meaning of life (and business) - September 13, 2006 |
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(CNN) -- Srikumar S. Rao isn't really like most business school professors. For starters, the syllabus for the course he teaches at two leading schools begins with a lengthy argument as to why many students should not consider signing up. The reading list below -- all 33 pages of it -- is similarly unorthodox. For example, the six books Rao cites as compulsory pre-course reading cover not only business creativity but also a spiritual travelogue through Egypt and a 1910 novel by noted English humorous author P. G. Wodehouse. |
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The New York Times - Shifting Careers - Hot Ticket in B-School: Bringing Life Values to Corporate Ethics - May 29, 2008 |
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STUDENTS talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.
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Wall Street Journal - MBA Track |
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M.B.A.s learn plenty about quantitative values. Now, more students are getting lessons in spiritual values, as well. Business schools aren't trying to inculcate religious beliefs or encourage students to proselytize on the job. But more schools are offering courses dealing with spirituality and personal fulfillment in the workplace. |
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Karma Zen Capitalism - PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, February 09, 2007 |
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A story now about business executives and would-be executives who want to be not only rich and powerful, but happy too. That desire, as Lucky Severson reports, has created a demand for teachers of Hindu and Buddhist self-improvement techniques. Video is available (under Watch This Report). |
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B-School Buddhism - Time Magazine - April 02, 2006 |
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Srikumar Rao wants his students to meditate. He teaches them to be grateful. In his gentle voice, he asks them to stop living in a "me centered" world and start living in an "other centered" one. It's the kind of talk that would be right at home in a Buddhist monastery, but Rao's disciples gather in another kind of temple: business school. |
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Fortune - Catch the New MBA Craze: Raoism |
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The terms "self-help" and "MBA" don't often go hand in hand. So it's surprising that a Columbia Business School class called Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM) is fast becoming one of the most popular B-school classes in the U.S. Weirder still, it's arguably the toughest to get into, requires thinking about the "meaning of life," and not infrequently convinces MBA students that --surprise!-- money isn't everything. |
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Karma Capitalism - Business Week - October 30, 2006 |
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Signs of worldly success abounded as members of the Young Presidents' Organization met at a mansion in a tony New Jersey suburb. BMWs, Lexuses, and Mercedes-Benzes lined the manicured lawn. Waiters in starched shirts and bow ties passed out vegetarian canapés. And about 20 executives--heads of midsize outfits selling everything from custom audiovisual systems to personal grooming products--mingled poolside with their spouses on a late September evening. |
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London Times - For mystery and mastery, it pays to follow the unorthodox course |
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"INNOVATE or die" is the call from the boardrooms of many of the world's leading companies. It is a message re-inforced in the curriculums of business schools. Ironic, then, that teaching methods and venues for the full-time MBA have remained resolutely traditional on many business school campuses across the globe. There are, however, some notable exceptions. |
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How to harness your full MBA potential - The Independent - January 18, 2007 |
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Caroline Haydon discovers an ambitious programme that seeks to solve your personal problems - and world hunger. It's the last class of the course, so the breakfast provided on a rota basis by one of the students is a little more lavish than usual - two birthday cakes, coffee and more cakes and sweetmeats bought by the professor. |
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IDDMagazine.com - Gaining the Edge - September 25, 2006 |
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(IDDMagazine.com - Sep 2006) - Despite having Trinity church at one end, spirituality and Wall Street aren't a common match. But investment bankers have been flocking to a course taught at the Columbia Business School by business professor Srikumar Rao, who teaches how to be the most creative, ethical and vibrantly alive person one can possibly be. |
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JANUARY 30, 2006 - INDIA TODAY INTERNATIONAL - Born Creative: Srikumar Rao, 54 Academic |
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Seasoned academic Srikumar Rao teaches Creativity and Personal Mastery at Columbia University's Business School. The course was an experiment that almost failed. In 1999, under the professor's guidance, the school decided to introduce a course that would help students focus on what they could contribute to life as opposed to merely chasing material goals and milestones. |
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The New York Sun - A Teacher Who Broadens Paradigms, Breeds Success
Lunch at the Four Seasons |
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Srikumar Rao says the academic course in management and leadership development he teaches is the only one he's aware of that has its own alumni association. "Those who take my course don't end their interest when the semester is done," Mr. Rao, who teaches at Long Island University, London Business School, and Columbia Business School, said yesterday. "They become continuous students. I conceived this course as having a beginning but no end." |
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The Teachings of Dr. Rao - Business Week - January 31, 2007 |
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"There's no destination," Dr. Srikumar Rao tells his B-school students. "The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful". |
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La Vanguardia - November 27, 2006 |
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Tengo 55 años. Nací en Bombay (India) y vivo en Nueva York. Soy licenciado en Físicas, doctor en Filosfía y máster en gestión empresarial. Imparto mi curso de motivación en la Columbia Business School en la London Business School. Estoy casado y tengo dos hijas. Me alegro de que Bush empiece a rectificar. Soy hinduista |
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La Gaceta - November 18, 2006 |
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¿Es feliz con lo que hace, profesor Rao? "¡Sí, por supuseto!", esponde con rotundidad. No lo dice por compromiso o por avalr que su obra, Abriendo puertas (Empresa activa, 2006), funciona. De heco, ya está trabajando en una segunda parte, centrada en el liderazgo empresarial, y habrá una tercera. |
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El Economista - November 11, 2006 |
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El autor propone las estrategias para alcanzar el equilibrio de la vida personal y profesional. |
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The Bottom Line |
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For the instructor of what's been described as one of the most popular courses in Columbia Business School history, a standing-room only crowd of MBAs anticipating his arrival was nothing new. What was novel about the sold-out event that drew more than 100 alumni and students to Merrill Lynch's midtown offi ces was the release of Prof. Srikumar Rao's new book, Are You Ready to Succeed? (Hyperion Books, January 2006) - as well as the prospect of experiencing his muchdiscussed class, Creative Personal Mastery (CPM), firsthand. |
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The Entrepreneurial MD - Are YOU Ready to Succeed? - October 13, 2006 |
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Creativity is a mysterious and intriguing force - one that I believe resides in all of us. And one that I am adamant is latent or even suppressed in many physicians. Just how original and inventive can you really be in your routine of caring for patients? Perhaps if you are another Patch Adams, you can get away with it. But the majority of physicians spend their days adhering to a fairly well-prescribed set of "rules" that must be observed in order to generate a predictable outcome for patients. Physicians can't afford to play around with these rules. |
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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - Investment Bankers Flock to Spiritual Guru - October 03, 2006 |
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For many Wall Streeters, the last philosophical tome they picked up was Sun Tzu's The Art of War. But investment bankers have been rushing to a Columbia Business School Course taught by Srikumar Rao, according to Investment Dealers' Digest. |
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Accentuate positives to achieve success - August 2006 |
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I'm dishing Pad Thai and dreaming of a gridlocked commute. Because you can only eat so much spaghetti and meatballs, the stir-fry noodle dish is a new menu item at Chez Jay. The reviews are in and both kids are unimpressed. So much so they stage a hunger strike. The oldest cries and is relentless in her noodle for dessert negotiations. The youngest cries louder and dumps his dinner in his lap and on the floor. |
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Epoca: Íntegra da entrevista com o guru Srikumar Rao - July 2006 |
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ÉPOCA - O que é um "livro de trabalho para a criação de mudança profunda"? Não é auto-ajuda?
Srikumar Rao - O que eu quero dizer é que, quando as pessoas lêem meu livro e fazem meus exercícios, isso realmente faz uma tremenda mudança em suas vidas. E não só em suas vidas profissionais, mas em qualquer parte da vida. Dúzias de meus estudantes me contam que suas relações mudaram com as crianças, com os pais, com o chefe, colegas, clientes. Tudo muda. |
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InBubbleWrap: Success Doesn't Mean Success - May 2006 |
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Only a handful of modern business thinkers can lay claim to being anything comparable to a "real life Mr. Miyagi". Someone who can methodically break down your previous mental constructs and rebuild them - fashioning your every decision into building blocks for success. And just as Miyagi taught Danielson that the essence of martial arts is not fighting, Srikumar Rao will teach you that the essence of business is not defined by terms like "market share" and "maximizing shareholder value". I will guarantee that if you read Professor Rao's book, Are You Ready to Succeed: Unconventional Stategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life, and make a strong effort to implement his teachings, your life will be forever changed. |
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Hyperion - ARE YOU READY TO SUCCEED? - Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life : Yoga Journal - May 2006 |
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The title reads like a Tony Robbins info-mercial, but Are You Ready to Succeed? is anything but trashy hype. The first book from Srikumar S. Rao, who teaches at Columbia University's business school, is drawn from his wildly popular Creativity and Personal Mastery course, designed to teach students how to create a more intentional, ethical, and, yes, successful life. Rao's program involves awakening the witness mind, practicing nonjudgment and nonviolence, and bringing consciousness to daily tasks. All this sensible stuff will be familiar to most yogis, but Rao makes it fresh by shaping it into an appealing, manageable plan. |
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Fortune - Leaders Learn to Heed the Voice Within |
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THE DAY AFTER Willow Shire appeared on the cover of Fortune, for a 1993 story titled "Managing in the Midst of Chaos," her marriage came apart, a victim of inattention. Says Shire, now divorced: "That story was a symbol of my priorities." As a vice president of loss-wracked computer maker Digital Equipment, responsible for $900 million of annual sales to the health care industry, Shire reported directly to CEO Robert Palmer. She says her sense of "extreme urgency" at work contributed to a severely unbalanced life. |
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London Business School Alumni News - Issue 106 March 2006 - Following Your Passions at Work |
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"The purpose of business is to operate so that every person touched by the business reaches his or her highest potential", according to Srikumar Rao, London Business School's popular Visiting Professor of Marketing and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. "Once you have that as your mission, you unleash a degree of energy that is incredible. Then, shareholder value will take care of itself." Professor Rao is making waves on campus, as he replaces usual business creeds - such as maximising shareholder value - with loftier statements. |
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Ready to succeed? The Financial Express - April 08, 2006 |
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Are you ready to succeed? Turned out to be one of the handbooks for managing self, which the readers would find useful if the processes are followed diligently. The writer, Srikumar Rao, makes his readers understand that one has to go through proper exercises to attain the right kind of transformation of both the professional and personal lives. The book forces the readers to confront the condition of their life and seek answers to life's most important questions. |
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