"The guru who learnt things from the tsunami" - Dipak Jain, Dean Kellogg School

By C Chitti Pantulu (dnaindia.com)

7/12/2007 -

HYDERABAD: It is Jack Welch’s favourite story and receives the loudest claps whenever he recounts it. Interestingly, it is not even his own. The oft-quoted tsunami experience of Dr Dipak Jain, Dean Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago holds several lessons for managers.

Recollecting the events of the fateful morning in December of 2004 at Phuket, Thailand, the well known management expert elaborated on the business lessons he drew from the experience. He was speaking at the Indian School of Business where he held forth on Global Macro Trends and issues like branding nations and reservations in India.

“Listen to your inner voice,” Jain said, adding had it not been for some subconscious force that made him walk away from the beach on that fateful December morning, he would not have been alive.

The same holds true for managing businesses too, said the dean of one of the world’s most popular B-schools regaling students with his one-liners and rapid-fire gyan for over an hour on Thursday evening. “Often it is instinct that bails out managers from difficult situations”, he said.

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