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Our B-schools may be paying lip service to sustainability but their faculty and students do not have their hearts in it. The lure of the lucre can be mighty magnetic.

I have no hard data to prove my hypothesis but it somehow appears that entrepreneurs are being increasingly viewed as creators who come up with new ideas, slog and strive to implement them, and in the process, generate work opportunities and wealth for a large number of employees and other stakeholders.

We are interacting for the first time after the advent of our new year Bikram Sambat 2080 on April 14.

To my utter surprise, I have seen top managers invariably unhappy with the performance of, at least, half their hires. It seems to be a global phenomenon.

Though the repeated warnings of a global recession have yet to be experienced in full force, layoffs in the technology sector are growing at an alarming rate.

We have been encountering this de rigueur dialogue in the corporate world ad nauseam. Infuriated and exasperated, we often wonder what meetings are all about;

Crises of all kinds have business implications. Managers need to cultivate a comprehensive and integrated understanding of global events. Polycrises occur because of multiple reasons. Therefore, solutions should also be multi-pronged.

There is no gainsaying that a motivated manager will always be a better performer. An inspired person can do wonders.

Leading teams and chasing sales targets and revenue realisation, managers tend to forget that any business or enterprise, however big, is only a part of a much bigger entity, the economy.

Most founders of business enterprises, conglomerates and industries in Nepal might not have even heard of management schools.