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People Who Have Coached and Mentored Me-My Story

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Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Issac Newton If teachers leave powerful impressions on our lives, coaches and mentors transform our very lives. A teacher is constrained by the system to teach in groups and can therefore give limited personal attention. The coach/mentor understands us as an individual and provides customized guidance, thus touching our very core. Today is Teachers' Day in India and I thought of expressing my deep gratitude to the great teachers/coaches/mentor life has always surrounded me with. I have had great teachers till my post graduation including Prof PK Gupta (Former Dean, IMS-Indore) Prof Ashish Sadh (currently Faculty, IIM Indore) and Dr Anand Sapre (one of my MBA professors and my favourite teacher, who mentored me as my PhD supervisor). He is currently Director & Professor, IIPS-Indore. He is a wonderful human...

Interesting People in My Life VIII; Mr Prriya Raj, Management Cartoonist and Branding Consultant

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Q1: Tell us about your journey into management cartoons. I began with social cartoons for magazines and then drew a daily political cartoon for a newspaper from Allahabad during my MBA days. I once again started a daily news cartoon during mid-nineteen for ‘The Daily’, a newspaper in Mumbai. When The Pioneer launched its Mumbai edition, I started India’s first management cartoon column ‘Under The Pyramid’. This was later picked-up by Hong Kong Standard. When The Pioneer closed its Mumbai edition, I continued with the column for sometime for its Delhi edition, but then moved the column to The Financial Express. I also contributed a weekly column ‘Out of the Box’ for The Hindu, which ran till 2003. Later on when DNA was launched from Mumbai, I started a daily management cartoon in color ‘Funny Business’. I stopped doing this column as I was planning to combine my work in the area of cartooning and management in a way that is more satisfying. I started a column in The Chartered Accountant...