Excellence and Integrity (EXI)

Delhi Campus

• Google Classroom Code:  sv34ihq   (Please join asap). You may also join by clicking this link! 

• Files and Books https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gwvABlYsMRwSg0FYqzX6RDgy68i9a8bT?usp=sharing

• Site: www.kuru.in/exi  

• Groups, Dates of Group Presentations (Chapters and Books):
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bs2nkLUnesRf33r8KtgkK2Xd5pln5A1PcEZkBuSHvKg/edit?usp=sharing     [kuru@xl]

Please submit the Self Intro and 3 Caselets by Aug 8, 2024 and submit them as one file in Google Classroom. Thank you.

•Please form 9 groups (First 4 groups of 4 people). Click here

•Cohort Assignment (10):Two  groups start preparing 4 chapters each for presentation from 10 August onwards (Total 8 chapters per session). PLEASE GIVE YOUR CREATIVE FEEDBACK!

Also presentation of one book by the cohort (25 minutes)

•Indl Assignment (15): Infographics of 3 chapters To choose chapters, please Click here; 400 word critical reflection with industry application on any chapter or any basic concept. Last Date: Aug 19

•Indl Caselets (0): 4 short paras About Yourself, 2+1 Caselets of ethical dilemma during your work exp. Last Date: Aug  14

•Midterm Exam (35): 25 MCQs, 5 fill in the blanks, 5 paras of 100 words; 2 pages reflective essay (500 words)

•End Term (40): Same pattern as above

•Formulate upto 10 MCQs, which  are indirect and only 80%  of class can answer (2 marks): Optional   Send to: exixlri@gmail.com

The Cohort can choose one book from these books:
1. Pope Francis: Laudato Si'

2. Sisodia, Wolfe, Seth: Profit, Passion, Purpose

3. Ariely, Hreha, Berman: Hacking Human Nature for Good

4. Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

5. Goleman: Emotional Intelligence

6. Sandberg, Grant: Option B

7. Baserman, Tenbrusel: Blind Spots

8. Taleb: Black Swan

9. Kidder: Moral Courage 

END TERM EXAM

Syllabus

• Special issue of Outlook on XLRI

• Chapters 32 onwards from the book, "Excellence and Integrity"  (Text and PPT)

• Videos:  Richard Silbernsen (Leadership toolkit for XLers: The text of the speech and the PPT are found in the directory), Laurie Santos (on happiness)

• Questions for Reflection dealt with on the last day

• PPTs of the 9 books of the Group Presentation

Exam will be modelled on the Mid Term Exam, with Parts A to D (90 minutes duration)

August 11, 2024

• Is there something FUNDAMENALLY wrong with human beings?

• Are human beings basically GOOD or BAD (Theory Y or X ) by Douglas McGregor

• Difference between XL and other B Schools (SIP, Stipend, Placement?: Why?

• 35 lakhs+Tension     Gradual Progress 25 lakhs+Purpose     Exponential Progress and Fulfilment

• People of Success/Satisfaction/Joy/Fulfilment: What to do?

• Dialogue with YOUR ELDER SELF of 2047 (China+, India’s economic incredible progress!)

• The LEGACY that you leave behind (to Family, Community, XL, Nation and World)

• Your Epitaph

• What are Ethics and Excellence for YOU!

• You are 90 Years old. What will you tell you grand children about yourself? The story of your own life?

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Meaning of Laudato Si' (Praise be to You; Prayer from St. Francis of Assissi

Three Quotes to interpret and apply

• “All is not lost. Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start.” (Laudato Si' 205) 

• We have the power to make this the BEST generation of mankind in the history of the world - or make it the LAST." --Address before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations, September 20, 1963, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963. 

• We must learn to live together as brothers [and sisters] or perish together as fools. 

Delhi Campus

August 9

• The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus 

• Logotherapy and Man's Search for Meaning: Concentration Camp experience: Viennese Psychologist, Viktor Frankl

• "He who has a WHY to live for can cope with any HOW."  "Anything that does not kill you makes you stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche

• Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.  Benjamin Bloom 

August 11

• Examination of conscience

August 13

• Relationship of Servant Leadership to Herman Hesse's Journey to the East!

 August 14

• AI and Ethics

• "Yes from NOW on" from the story of the supercomputer

• Frankenstein

• The best or last generation (John F Kennedy)

 August 16

Finding God in Everything   and Finding Everything in God

Presentation of the Book (Starting from 19th)

Limit it to 25 minutes

The structure should be:

1. Introduction

2. Basic Summary

3. Your Critique/Application to Industry

4. Some Quotes

5. Conclusion

Please make a one slide summary (Infographics) of the whole book (key notions, basic concepts), which other group members too can use, for their exam.

Four Important Sites for you:

• Personal address of Dr Richard Sibbernsen to XL students

• Leaders who Eat Last: here

• Integrity in Leadership: here

• Lauri Santos on Happiness: here

Mid Term Exams  (Aug 16 & 25)

Syllabus

1. All the files marked MT_ (Chapters 0-4, Ignatius, JRD Tata & Warren Buffet). 

2. Please pay attention also to the videos attached.

3. From the book, see chapters till 31.
   Best Wishes.

The exam consists of Part A (25 MCQs: 25 marks), Part B (5 Fill in the Blanks: 5 marks), Part C (5/8 100-word answers to be written in 2 pages: 10 marks) and Part C (one 2-page essay:10 marks)

The duration is 75 minutes.  Please time your answers properly. Do not waste too much time in Part A and B.