Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: Business Ethics Lecture Series - Part 34 - A Philosophical Approach to Life

Business Ethics Lecture Series - Part 34 - A Philosophical Approach to Life

Ou Dieu vous a seme, il faut savoir fleurir
YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO FLOWER WHERE GOD HAS SOWN YOU By

VIKRAM KARVE

Long back I learnt a trick ( Read more... )

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: ART OF TEACHING

A GOOD TEACHER
Musings on the Qualities a Teacher must possess

By
VIKRAM KARVE

A teacher is a trustee.

It is just like the birds.

You take a flock of young students under your wings, nurture them, teach them to “fly”, and when they are ready, you release them into ( Read more... )

ROLE REVERSAL - a True Story

http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2011/01/role-reversal-a-true-story.htm

ROLE REVERSAL
A True Story
By
VIKRAM KARVE

December 1982
Curzon Road Apartments
Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi

7:30 AM

Our Pet Dog Sherry (Lhasa Apso girl), my Wife and I get into the lift, go down seven floors, walk to my ( Read more... )

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: DETERRENCE

DETERRENCE

THE SNAKE AND THE SAINT
A Teaching Story

By
VIKRAM KARVE

Deterrence - The prevention from action by fear of the consequences. Deterrence is the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety. Deterrence is a ( Read more... )

TABLE MANNERS
A Teaching Story
By
VIKRAM KARVE

On every occasion when we invite guests to dine with us, before the guests arrive, my wife gives me a moral lecture on social graces and table manners, especially on how I must talk less, let the guests eat first, take small helpings,  etiquette social graces…blah…blah…blah…basically ( Read more... )

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Business Ethics Lecture Series Part 33 - Code of Conduct and Ethics

Code of Conduct and Ethics CODE OF A NAVAL OFFICER

While clearing my bookcase I came across a booklet, we were given, about various aspects of Naval Life when I joined the Naval Academy way back in the 1970’s. In this ( Read more... )

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT A Mulla Nasrudin Story

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT A Mulla Nasrudin Story

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Who Knows?
A Mulla Nasrudin Story
Retold By
VIKRAM KARVE

One day the village teacher told Mulla Nasrudin that he had decided to travel across the world to seek additional knowledge.

When ( Read more... )

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: EGO AMBITION CREATIVITY

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

An Egoistic Person lives in the Past

An Ambitious Person lives in the Future

A Creative Person lives in the Present

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: WEB 2.0 Technology - A Boon for Education and Training

WEB 2.0 Technologies for the Teacher and the Trainer
By
VIKRAM KARVE

When we were students, in school in the 1960s and in college and university in the 1970s, the pedagogy process focussed on the teacher and was largely teacher-centric.

Yes ( Read more... )

Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve: WEALTH SUCCESS LOVE - an inspirational story

THE WEALTH OF LOVE 
Ancient Wisdom
An Inspirational Story
By
VIKRAM KARVE

Here is an inspirational story I read somewhere:

Long time ago in China there was a time when people used to have gardens outside there houses. Almost all the families had one.
( Read more... )