Swim initiative by Great Lakes

When you see the eagle soar in the sky, you don’t wonder how it does that, but you do know that it has strong wings to take it to soaring heights.

Here at Great Lakes, under the aegis of uncle Bala the institute has started an initiative called the SWIM (Successful Women in Management) initiative, concurring to my analogy in Management as in Life, men and women have to be given their rightful space to grow and do as they should.

Seminars and talks are conducted by successful women in the industry such as Mallika Srinivasan for the women in this institute, to help them break the barriers and mindset that has come down through the echelons of management over the years. Women have the chance here to be the best that they can, and the SWIM initiative seeks to provide them that opportunity. I remember the quote by Mallika Srinivasan during her speech on our inaugural function, and it is my favorite one and an inspiring one; “Know the way, Go the way, Show the way”. The Institute let’s the women know the way, gives them the opportunity of going the way, and then eventually showing a way to the future generation of women in management.

Management thinking and practice has matured in India over the last 10 years with the advent of the ‘knowledge era” and thanks to the IT industry. Women have moved out of the generic job types that were prevalent to giving women a high post only in the government to today being able to lead companies as CEO’s. Great Lakes has taken the first step towards achieving the goal of helping the future of management soar, taking men to be one wing and the women to be the other. Creating equal opportunity for the eagle called Management to SOAR.