When the Association of Indian Management Schools was set up in 1988 to work as the professional association of management education, there were about 100 B-Schools in India.
When Nihar Jain of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, took up the job offered by a start-up company, what lured him was not the salary package, but the stock option. And Jain wasn’t alone. A host of graduates from India’s premier institutes have opted for start-up jobs for the same reason.
Although creativity is often considered a trait of the privileged few, any individual or team can become more creative — better able to generate the breakthroughs that stimulate growth and performance.