Good Working

We held a series of four workshops on Saturday with students to discuss our new Professional Development Module at ISB.  All were really interesting and really helped me to understand the talent ISB has!

A couple of interesting points came out in team presentations.  One was with regard to teams and the students identified the Tata Singur project as an example of the importance of teams.  How's that you might ask?  Well it turns out that though the car plant was abandoned the teams who were ready to work in it were not and they were all moved to Gujrat to set up and run the new site. So it seems one of the most critical factors in the production were the people and they could not be abandoned in the same way as the site and infrastructure could be - much too important!

With a couple of the groups we ended up having an interesting discussion on the value of open questions and how they can be used to learn more about each other.  Starting with a short ice-breaker to encourage open questions it was clear many of our students will be good at networking!

More workshops next Saturday!