In large part old organisational paradigm is

dying
New paradigm procliams that the most
innovative and successful organisations
will be those from team players and not
from hierarchy
Indian organisations have also realised this
OD will be a major player
STRENGTHS OF OD

•The central strength of OD is the

processes
• Political Government milieu
• OD practice has been expanding
in the last two or three decades
OBSTACLES IN THE PATH OF
OD

o Leadership and Values

o OD Training
o Interdisplinary nature of OD
o OD techniques
If you would not be
forgotten as soon as you
are dead, either write
things worth reading or
do things worth writing

Benjamin Franklin
 RAHUL GANDHI
•Belongs to the first family in
Indian politics
•Campaigned for his mother in
1999
•Won from Amethi in 2003
 Uses Modern Idioms
In UP Assembly elections in April
2007, Rahul Gandhi gave the following
lines as part of his speech “ Once my
family decides something it doesn’t
go back. Whether it is about India’s
freedom, dividing Pakistan or
taking India into the 21st century.”
Hopes to create a new congress
and thus a new India
 Has opened the party door for the
youth
 VIKRAM AKULA
o Founder and CEO of SKS (Swayam Krishi
Sangam) Microfinance
o SKS is one of the fastest growing finance
institutions in the world
o SKS uses innovative technologies
o Wanted SKS to replace the banks
o Giants like Citigroup, ABM Amro Holding NV,
HSBC Holdings lend out to SKS
 SAMIT BASU
Was 23 when he wrote the hugely
successful Simoqin Prophecies
Writes in the genre of Lord of the
Rings and Harry Potter
The Manticore Secret and Unwaba
revelations – to be realesed in Dec
Quitted IIM
Busy writing comics, short stories
 Abhijit Awasthi
Instrumental in creating the “A Day in
the Life of India” print campaign for
TOI in 1998
Fevicol AD
Centreshock commercial
Asian Paints “ Wah Sunil Babu”
Cadbury – “Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye”
“Pappu Paas ho Gaya”
“Miss Palampur”
 VIDYA BALAN
In 1998, this elegant beauty started her
career as a model in Surf Excel advertisement.
Later she appeared in more than 25 ad films
like Ponds, Bajaj etc.
Before getting her big break in Bollywood,
she acted in a few music videos with Euphoria,
Shubha Mudgal, Pankaj Udhas etc.
She was also seen in TV serials such as
Ashok Pandit's 'Hanste Khelte' and Ektaa
Kapoor’s 'Hum Paanch'
In 2005, she debuted in Bollywood with
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Parineeta, directed by
Pradeep Sarkar. She also did Lage Raho
Munnabhai. One of her upcoming movie is
Bhool Bhulaiya.
She succeeded in making the role perfect
with her natural beauty, talent, grace and
elegance
Vidya has a very traditional Indian look in
contrast to most of today's Bollywood starlets
She is associated with AmFar (Americans
for AIDS Research) and Hale House, a home
for children born with HIV and those affected
by drug addiction. She also involves herself
with the Harvard AIDS Institute, by hosting
forums and participating in events throughout
the year.
25 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
According to USA Today, they are the 25 most influential people of the
past 25 years who have changed our world, transformed technology,
mapped the human body and affected the way we relate to one another

1 BILL GATES SOFTWARE ENTREPRENEUR

His company’s software shaped the way millions use the
technology that has transformed communications and commerce

2 RONALD REAGAN 40TH US PRESIDENT

He put the United States on a more
conservative course, that helped end the Cold
War

3 OPRAH WINFREY TALK SHOW HOST

She pioneered a form of intimate public
discourse that brought taboo subjects
into the open and sparked a confessional,
selfhelp culture.
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4&5 | FRANCIS COLLINS & J CRAIG VENTER

MAPPERS OF THE HUMAN GENOME | Their

joint efforts at mapping the human genome
have raised hopes of a cure being found for the
world’s most feared diseases

6 | OSAMA BIN LADEN

| TERRORIST
For most Americans, the attacks by the al-
Qaida network he leads marked the beginning
of a global battle against radical Islamists

7 | STEPHEN HAWKING

| PHYSICIST In the tradition of Isaac Newton

and Albert Einstein, he popularised science,
despite being severely disabled

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8 | LANCE ARMSTRONG

| CYCLIST AND CANCER ACTIVIST | He won a record

breaking seven consecutive Tour de France races, cycling’s
most prestigious event, after battling testicular cancer

9 | POPE JOHN PAUL II PONTIFF | In a 26-year papacy, he

defined the Roman Catholic Church’s role in modern times

10 | BONO

| ROCKER & ACTIVIST | The lead singer of rock band U2 is a

passionate proponent of forgiving third-world debt and
battling the AIDS pandemic in Africa

11 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

| SOVIET LEADER Best known for introducing economic and

political reforms — glasnost and perestroika — which finally
ended the bipolar world order
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12,13 | SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE | CO-FOUNDERS
OF GOOGLE | Co-creators of Google — now the Web’s
most-used search engine and so familiar that it’s become
a verb

14 | GEORGE W. BUSH
43RD US PRESIDENT | He led America’s response to the
9/11 attacks in 2001 and ordered the invasion of Iraq in
2003 — enmeshing the US in its longest war since
Vietnam

15 | SAM WALTON
| RETAILING PIONEER | A farm boy from Oklahoma, he
relied on high volume and low markups to build the
world’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart

16 | DENG XIAOPING
| CHINESE LEADER | The de facto leader of China from
1978 into the 1990s, he opened the nation to global
markets and economic modernisation
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17 | MICHAEL JORDAN

| BASKETBALL STAR | Arguably the

greatest basketball player and one of the
richest sportspersons of all time

18 | HOWARD SCHULTZ

| STARBUCKS ENTREPRENEUR |
Cultivated a chain of coffeehouses that
have influenced daily habits and taste buds

19 | NELSON MANDELA

| ANTI-APARTHEID LEADER | Released in

1990 after 27 years in prison, he was the
first elected president of a fully democratic
South Africa
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20 | J K ROWLING

| AUTHOR | Creator of the Harry Potter series which

shattered book sales records around the world

21,22 | BILL & HILLARY CLINTON | 42ND PRESIDENT &

NY SENATOR | He was the first Democrat elected to two
terms in the White House. She went from wronged wife
to NY senator to the most viable female presidential
contender in US history

23 | RUSSELL SIMMONS

| HIP-HOP PIONEER He helped popularize a distinctively

American form of music — that has influenced
mainstream pop culture since the 1980s

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24 | RYAN WHITE

| THE FACE OF AIDS | The 13-yearold

hemophiliac was diagnosed with AIDS in
1984, then banned from attending his public
middle school. A human face for a
stigmatised disease, he died in 1990

25 | HOMER SIMPSON

| EVERYMAN | The doughy star of TV’s The

Simpsons epitomized the irony and
irreverence at the core of American humour

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