The cover theme of the September-October issue is ‘Are leaders really lonely?’. Dr Fernanda Arreola, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at École de Management Leonard de Vinci, and Dr Gregory Unruh, Arison Professor of Values Leadership at George Mason University, take a deep dive into the reasons behind entrepreneur loneliness. K Shankar, Chief Executive Officer of Feedback Business Consulting, discusses why loneliness is a source of inner strength and not weakness in leaders. Vivek Mehra, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of SAGE Publications India Private Limited, writes about the pressures leaders have to deal with as the face of the company. Rajeev Shroff, founder of Cupela, makes the case for coaches to step in and guide leaders when they are battling their deepest insecurities.
The Smart Manager, India's first world-class management magazine, was founded in 2002 by eminent business historian Dr Gita Piramal with Harvard Business School Dean, Prof. Nitin Nohria with the mission of updating managers and business practitioners in India with the latest thought-provoking strategic ideas from experienced, world-class managers, academics and consultants from across the globe. Over the years, the magazine has carried articles authored by illustrious management gurus such as the late CK Prahalad and Sumantra Ghoshal, Jack Trout, Ram Charan, Gary Hamel, Gay Haskins, Jagdish Seth and Lynda Gratton. We believe that "managers are the best teachers of managers" and most of our articles are written in the first person by top-tier CEOs such as Kumaramangalam Birla, Sunil Mittal, Aditya Birla, KV Kamath, Santrupt Mitra, Rajeev Dubey and S Ramadorai. We also have relationships with a number of B-schools around the world, apart from most top-level schools in India. The Smart Manager hosts the Tata Consultancy Services Smart Manager Case Contest, the most prestigious competition of its kind in the Indian print media. The contest, with a cash prize of INR50,000 per issue, sees wide participation from national and international business managers and students. The 'Smart" in The Smart Manager is an acronym for Strategy, Marketing, Analysis, Resources and Technology. Truly useful knowledge when you need it 24 x 365, year after year.
