Invitation for Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Front Runners of all kinds and fields A Learning Journey to China and India in October 2011

1. Invitation for Leaders, Entrepreneurs
and Front Runners of all kinds and fields
A Learning Journey to China and India
in October 2011

2. “Weliveinawonderfulworldthatisfullof Adventure in Chindia challenges
beauty,charmandadventure.Thereisnoend your Mental Models
totheadventureswecanhaveifonlyweseek This will be a 13 days learning journey that will
themwithoureyesopen.”­–JawaharialNehru challenge your mental models in order to open up
for new possibilities. You will gain the understanding
of how India can be:
Learning Journey to China • Leading in the software bioscience outsourcing
worldwide (Infosys, Wipro)
India in October 2011 • Have a wide variety of spiritual growth
Learning Journey to China and India contains 2 • Create new emerging multinationals (Tata, Mittal,
insightful weeks in the rising economic hubs of the Reliance)
world. Social entrepreneurship, outsourcing, • Developed most successful cases related to the
emerging markets the fortune at the bottom of the fortune at the BOP (Unilever)
pyramid, challenging yourself in terms of optimal • Social entrepreneurs (Aravind)
discomfort, creativity, radical environmental change, • Fastest growing market for European companies
personal real learning, fun satisfaction are the
spices that will be experienced throughout the Understand how China has become one of the most
journey. important countries of the world. Learning which are
the most important successes and failures of foreign
The trip will be based on the dialogue created with companies (producing, selling outsourcing).
the diverse team of professionals that will come
along. Moreover, the program of the journey will This learning journey involves interaction with local
include workshops around sustainability with people, because we believe traveling is all about
international experts, voluntary work in Kolkata who we meet on the journey. Be it ourselves, our
(India) and visits to carefully selected organizations travel companions or locals. This is connected with
and companies in China and India. the idea of being able to run projects together with
people from other cultures. Because via

3. understanding their cultures we can learn how
different innovations have been created based on “One’sdestinationisneveraplace,butanew
the diversity and mixture of cultures. wayofseeingthings.”
­–HenryMiller
Learning Process
We are about to undertake on a learning journey. by Mondragon University). Now you have the
The learnings will be made of dialogue among the opportunity to join the process and learn together
participants, seeing and experiencing new with them. We also offer an opportunity to meet with
environment, visiting carefully selected, inspiring high performing Chinese and Indian companies and
sites and organizations, as well as based on the universities and create new businesses with them.
dialogue created with the travelers. There will be
some pre-work and connecting via online platform Over and above that, this journey is an unique
before the journey. opportunity to create partnerships within the Team
Academy network's core collaborators from Europe,
South America, China and India. Why this journey
The Core Values takes place is because we want to gain a global
This learning Journey is built on four core values. mindset and expand our learning business
Dialogue. It is all about interaction with local and network to China and India.
international entrepreneurs. Curiosity. Context
matters. Better thinking comes via better questions.
Social. Learning is contextual and happens in a Dates
community. Adventure. We seek and create We expect all the participants to be in Shangai,
unknown realities with courage and passion, we go China on the Sunday 9th of October for the shared
far in order to see close. dinner. Flights back from Mumbai can be arranged
from Friday night of 21st onwards. There will be 2
or 3 flights throughout the journey: Shanghai-Hong
Why this journey takes place Kong, Hong Kong-Kolkata, Kolkata-Pune. Contact
This is journey was originally designed for us for further information and details.
professionals from a wide range of backgrounds
doing the Master’s in Intrapreneurship, Open
Innovation and Team Leadership (MINN, developed

4. Who is already in Deadline for registration
We will travel together with the MINN Master’s September 16th, 2011
program. The group is formed by entrepreneurs and Due to the nature of the journey we limit the number
leaders from companies such as Danobat, Monkey of participants to 8 people.
Business, Eroski, The Hub Gipuzkoa, NRG-
marketing, Init Services, Gaia,
Team Entrepreneur, Creative Where and how to register?
Impact, Mondragon Unibertsitatea This learning journey is organized by Learning
MIK. That group will be 13 Journeys, Monkey Business Mondragon Team
people in total. We are expecting Academy. To register, contact Liher Pillado at +34
to get 5–10 participants to join this 615 70 23 59 or liher.pillado@gmail.com
parallel process that will be hosted
and organized by Liher Pillado
Ville Keränen.
“Twentyyearsfromnowyouwillbemore
Price disappointedbythethingsyoudidn’tdothan
3900 euros (+ VAT 18% / 23%). It includes bytheonesyoudiddo.Sothrowoffthe
organization of the learning journey which means bowlines,sailawayfromthesafeharbor.
e.g. organized visits to companies, workshops, Catchthetradewindsinyoursails.Explore.
getting to know local culture, coaching during the
process written documentation. Price doesn’t Dream.Discover.”
include flights, meals or accommodation. Ask for ­–MarkTwain
group discount.