Dr. Srikumar Rao
“I simply cannot stop smiling now and enjoy making others smile”
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The Search for Self
Originating as a business school course, CPM was created in 1994 by Srikumar S. Rao, who serves the multifaceted role of professor, coach, facilitator, and, at times, therapist. CPM grew out of a need “to work on myself,” says Rao, who developed the course while he was an executive at com...
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"Business; Emotional Striptease, and Other Paths to Ethics"
In a school where most of the 200 or so classes are Wall Street-centric, Dr. Rao's course, called Creativity and Personal Mastery, is as unbusiness as business school gets. To Dr. Rao, 52, who has been teaching the course at Columbia since 1999 and first taught it at Long Island Universit...
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“I am more effective as a psychiatrist and a better husband and father”
I started to notice palpable changes in myself when I took Professor Rao's course. The powerful exercises have a cumulative effect and I find that I am more effective as a psychiatrist and a better husband and father as a result. I have also used the principles I learned to help my patients. I re...
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