Noted management consultant and HRD trainer, Mr M.C. Das, asked the youth to prepare ‘vision statements for personal growth and academic excellence' in order to become good human beings and shine in their chosen careers.

Students have to make it a habit to learn new things every day and lend a practical dimension to what they learn so that they can improve their inherent abilities and thereby reach the pinnacles of success, he asserted.

Giving the key note address on ‘Human and Academic Excellence' at a seminar organised by The Hindu Business Line Club in association with Tata Photon at Vignan University, Vadlamudi, on Tuesday, Mr Das said human excellence without academic excellence was useless whereas academic excellence devoid of human values was dangerous to society as such a tendency gives rise to ‘intelligent devils'.

Human and academic excellence should be complementary. Business organisations recruit people who possess those qualities. There was no dearth of engineers or doctors but there was scarcity of good managers, he added.

Mr Das listed out ‘know your body', know your mind, know your feelings, know your behaviour, accept yourself, accept others and maintain cordial relations with people, appreciate others, accept your mistakes and ‘develop be happy attitude' as the nine ‘matras' for personal growth.

Mr K. Chandrasekharan, Regional General Manager of The Hindu, Vijayawada, said knowledge and attitudes matter the most in a person's career and suggested to students to give what the industry captains expect from them. ‘Knowledge management cycle' was an important thing they have to keep in mind.

Vignan University Director of Engineering and Technology, Mr V. Madhusudana Rao, called upon students to put into practice what they learn in such useful programmes.

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