leadership in the age of disruption

Neha.Bhatia@timesgroup.com

This year the 45thNational ManagementConvention of AIMA

focussed on leadership in theage of disruption. After theinaugural session, PreethaReddy, Vice Chairperson,Apollo Hospitals, welcomed

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder,The Art of Living Foundation,who presented his keynoteaddress on creating a newglobal order based oncompassion, trust and peaceand also interacted with theaudience. This was followedby Sudhir Jalan, Chairman &Managing Director,Meenakshi Tea Co. Ltd,

sharing his concludingremarks.Shereen Bhan, ManagingEditor, CNBC TV-18, had aconversation with KishoreBiyani, Founder and GroupCEO, Future Group, and SanjivMehta on the future of retail.Biyani shared his success storyand his journey so far.

India has a great

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opportunity to quadruple its GDPto $10 trillion by 2030 if it akesadvantage of technological andgeopolitical disruptions. Amid thisflux, India needs to nurture thespirit of exploration and build thecapacity for innovation. In thisbackdrop, T V Mohandas Pai,President, AIMA and Chairman,Manipal Global Education Services,shared his views and along with PBalaji, Chief Regulatory andCorporate Affairs Officer, VodafoneIdea Ltd, launched the India CaseResearch Centre Portal.

Omkar Goswami, Founder &Chairperson, CERG AdvisoryPrivate Limited, moderated thediscussion on Business Outlook2030 with the panelists Sunil KantMunjal, Immediate Past President,AIMA and Chairman, The Hero

Enterprise; Sanjiv Mehta,Convention Chairman andChairman & Managing Director,Hindustan Unilever Limited; andBaba N Kalyani, Chairman &Managing Director, Bharat ForgeLimited. The panelists shared howIndia is projected to become thethird-largest economy in the worldby 2030 with a GDP of $10 trillion,half of which will come from thedigital economy.

The AIMA-Kewal Nohria Awardfor Academic Leadership inManagement Education 2018 waspresented to Bhimaraya Metri,Director, Indian Institute ofManagement Tiruchirappalli.

AIMA-KPMG ManagementCapability Development IndexIndia Report 2018 was alsoreleased on the occasion.

Eminent personalities and experts from various sectors cametogether to discuss India's roadmap towards development

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Indian democracy's tradition ismatbhed, not manbhed. Weshould fight on ideology and

programmes and all partiesshould raise the level of politics,said Nitin Gadkari, Minister ofRoad Transport & Highways,Shipping and Water Resources,River Development & GangaRejuvenation, Government ofIndia, in a special session of AapKi Adalat at AIMA's 45th NationalManagement Convention.Replying to a question asked by

Rajat Sharma, Chairman andEditor-in-Chief, India TV, vehicularpollution, Gadkari said, "Delhi'spollution is down by 27%because of new peripheral roadsbecause of which trucks do nothave to go through Delhi."

In a video message, SureshPrabhu, Minister of Commerce &Industry and Civil Aviation,Government of India, said thatIndia is poised for a huge growth."In aviation, we are trying to makeairplanes in India. Around 100airports will come up in the next15 years with the investment of65 billion dollars. I am preparing a

vision for aviation for 2035 tomake it globally competitive andthe leading industry of thecountry. All these transformativemeasures are going to help Indiagrow," he said.

Guest of honour Jayant Sinha,Minister of State for Civil Aviation,Government of India, expressedhis opinion on Farm to Frontier:A Unique Development Model forIndia.

In his keynote address, M JAkbar, Minister of State forExternal Affairs, Government ofIndia, spoke about disruption andpillars of modernisation for India.

T V Mohandas Pai, President,AIMA and Chairman, ManipalGlobal Education Services; set thetone for the two-day convention.Rekha Sethi, Director General, AllIndia Management Association,Sanjiv Mehta, ConventionChairman, and Chairman &Managing Director, HindustanUnilever Limited, andHarshavardhan Neotia, SeniorVice President, AIMA andChairman, Ambuja Neotia Group,also spoke on the occasion.

Sanjay Kirloskar, Vice President,AIMA, and Chairman andManaging Director, Kirloskar

Indian growth story: The way forward

(L-R) Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA; T V Mohandas Pai, President, AIMA and Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services; Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation,Government of India; Sanjiv Mehta, Convention Chairman and Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Ltd; Harshavardhan Neotia, Senior Vice President, AIMA andChairman, Ambuja Neotia Group; Sanjay Kirloskar, Vice President, AIMA and Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. (Inset) Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce& Industry and Civil Aviation, Government of India, addressing AIMA 45th National Management Convention through video message

AIMA's 45th National Management Convention was an interactive platform forpolicy makers, political and corporate leaders to discuss key issues concerningthe nation and find out ways for economic development

Brothers Ltd concluded theinaugural session.

Several awards were alsopresented to dignitaries. SanjivMehta received the HonoraryFellowship of AIMA award,whereas Sunil Kant Munjal,Immediate Past President AIMAand Chairman, The HeroEnterprise, was presented theHonorary Life Fellowship of AIMAthis year. AIMA Managing India

Awards for Business Leader of theYear was given to Ajay G Piramal,Chairman, Piramal Group, andAIMA Managing India Awards forIndian MNC of the Year waspresented to Bharat ForgeLimited. The award was receivedby Baba N Kalyani, Chairman &Managing Director, Bharat ForgeLimited.

Convention Souvenir was alsoreleased on the occasion.

Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation,Government of India and Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV, during Aap ki Adalat at AIMA’s NMC

Baba N Kalyani, Chairman &Managing Director, Bharat ForgeLimited, with the AIMA ManagingIndia Award for Indian MNC of theYear

Sanjiv Mehta, Convention Chairmanand Chairman & Managing Director,Hindustan Unilever Limited, recipientof Honorary Life Fellowship of AIMA

Ajay G Piramal, Chairman, PiramalGroup recipient of the AIMAManaging India Awards for Busi-ness Leader of the Year

Sunil Kant Munjal, Immediate PastPresident, AIMA and Chairman, TheHero Enterprise, recipient of AIMA'sHonorary Life Fellowship Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji, Founder, The Art of Living Foundation, addressing AIMA's NMC as Sudhir Jalan, Chairman & Managing Director, Meenakshi Tea

Co. Ltd., and Preetha Reddy, Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals look on

(L-R) Baba N Kalyani, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Forge Limited; Sunil Kant Munjal, Immediate Past President, AIMA and Chairman,The Hero Enterprise; Sanjiv Mehta, Convention Chairman and Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., and Omkar Goswami,Founder & Chairperson, CERG Advisory Private Limited

Bhimaraya Metri, Director, IndianInstitute of ManagementTiruchirappalli recipient of the AIMA-Kewal Nohria Award for AcademicLeadership in ManagementEducation 2018

India@2030T V Mohandas Pai, President, AIMA and Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services, and P Balaji, ChiefRegulatory and Corporate Affairs Officer, Vodafone Idea Ltd.

Kishore Biyani, Founder and Group CEO, Future Group; and Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC TV-18

(L-R) T V Mohandas Pai, President, AIMA and Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services; M J Akbar, Minister of State for Exter-nal Affairs, Government of India; Harshavardhan Neotia, Senior Vice President, AIMA and Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group andSanjay Kirloskar, Vice President, AIMA and Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd