IPMX @ IIM Lucknow

Guess from the title of this post what I'm gonna talk about = exactly correct guess places you alongside Einstein on the IQ prowess; incorrect / no guess place you with me :-)

I was tired of de-signification of the word "I" in the corporate world I left behind on 1-Apr-09. Sample the alternatives and pick up the one you like:
[1] Together everyone achieves more (kyon bhai, doosra dekh raha hota hai tou you start working).
[2] Whole is greater than sum of parts (kewal Ram-Lakhan mein).
[3] It's a win-win: you win, I win, all win (court marshal for the losers, yeah?)
[4] It's a team game: you look after my back and I look after yours (because I have not anything better to do).
[5] A job worth doing is worth doing together (for sure that's true of 1 activity, kar lo guess).
[6] None of us is as smart as all of us (kyonki smart tou hum sab paida hee huye thhey).
<...Bull crap does not end here...>

More senior you climbed in the mgmt ladder, more often you are expected to preach all of the above; by that virtue I must confess I had to say all this with a poker face. Wonder why not "we" get promoted or "we" get a fabulous raise or "we" get an award!
For God's sake, why do we forget the normal "I"s, as in 'eye' / 'aai' (shapath) / 'aayee' (tu chal, mai aayee) / aai-yoh (jab chot lagti hai)....so on so forth.

Before I tell you my tryst with the "I" that has currently enamored me, lemme expand the post-title: It's about "I" and "We" factor :-)

The new "I" is the Ipmx; for once this "I" lives upto its reputation. "International" is the name of this program thereby making sure that all courses imparted necessarily have that flavour:
[1] Law course has to be Legal Environment in INTERNATIONAL business.
[2] Finance has to include full blown credit course on INTERNATIONAL finance (taught by INTERNATIONAL faculty).
[3] The HRM / OB kind of subjects have to focus on INTERNATIONAL culture.
[4] Marketing and Operations need not be INTERNATIONALized explicitly because all authors n cases are so much INTERNATIONALly inclined that you are suddenly translocated in the western world.
[5] Economics without INTERNATIONAL perspective is 'baniagiri', won't it?
[6] Ahh! even the communication course is INTERNATIONAL business communication.

Lest you start dreaming of an INTERNATIONAL jetsetting lifestyle, lemme emphasize the basic "I" of the course = INDIAN. You are being groomed to be an INDIAN manager with INTERNATIONAL perspective (you knew that, didn't you?).

I did miss out the key ingredient of the program- INTERNATIONAL immersion.
However, I do not miss out on INTERNATIONAL cuisine which they do not serve here because I love all varieties of Indian food.

Till we meet again, why don't you decode my "bye / take care" phrase w/o googling?

Marishka Hargitay...anurag

PS
I came across this site (spam mail); I love the name: oktatabyebye.com