Lecture 1 and 2
Its 2AM just rain-washed weather in NITIE and a serene pond
calling for a round around it. The usual me would like to put in my I-pod and
go for a walk but then I decide to write my first Management Studies blog,
which obviously can be done tomorrow as the class is on Thursday. The class
which has to be blogged occurred almost a week ago, now am left with two
options
1. The usual CTRL+ C, CTRL+V and then some minor enhancements.
2. Challenge myself and my Bengali room-mate to let me stay
awake (I will need the tube-light) for some more time before letting the
personal processor go to Hibernate mode.
I choose the latter not because I want to test my mental
capabilities, because for the first time in life probably I loved a class. Yes
that very first class in which the very first question put to the students was
"faceook kiya?? kya dekha?? Kya seekha??"
The Big
Questions
The questions that followed this were like
Ques.: What did we get to know from students of other sections??
Ans: To which most of us answered saying that teaching and
environment of his class is going to be cool and fun and in return he (Prasad
Sir) enlightened with the sheer fortune we put on stake to be sitting there and
we must earn it.
And a few more with a lot of wit in them and yes they were all
eye openers.
The Big (Motion) Picture
Next we watched a Pink Floyd classic “Another Brick in the
Wall”. And guess what even it had learning embedded in it, We must not end up
like them…
Yes that very first impression of Dr. Mandi(T.
Prasad sir) , so true to the motto
"Soacho.. Becho ! Becho..
Seekho ! ! Seekho .. Soacho ! ! !
Behatar Padhai ke Liye... Kamai !
Earning by Learning . &
.Earning for Learning !
Aaj Ki roti...Aaj hee,
kamyaenghae ! "
(yes this one is copied, being a previously Software Engineer I
can't escape it)
Am very sure he will make as "Becho" things to all
segments and under all conditions.
So that been introduction part, the teaching part is even more
interesting.
The Game
Because all we do in the class is playing some games, try to
pretend as already become managers and may be sometimes even higher officials.
But they essentially teach a lot as compared to textbooks which as a fact are
BORING.
Yes I know most of my readers won't believe this and to them I
can just say that piece of Blog is actually the Assignment.
So we had this game of piling cubes one over the other and
make a tower as high as possible (and at the back of our mind we thought it
should be at least as tall as the one made by the other IM-19 section), but
looking at the cubes we gave approximate height, which appeared realistic to
us.
The Outcome & Learning
The person (Highest bidder) after piling up 17 cubes was
actually happy to have achieved 170% of his set target(Goal), but the learning
even out of this game was and which did coincided with my work experience was that Goals were hugely understated as per the potential. Had
the goal been set higher, higher tower could've been achieved. To which entire
class agreed asking for a second chance to redo the same exercise.
Application
Analogously in industry if goals are set in accordance with
potential, the yield can be increased dramatically.
The Predictions
That was still not all, the second part of this game was about
predicting the change in Tower height if the builder was blind-folded and
to be guided by someone else. The verdict from class was almost unanimous with
most of the guys predicting the height to be around one third of the original,
and then with open eyes we realized the role of management, which if applied properly will further enhance the tower
height analogously the production from industry will also increase accordingly.
The Impression
This class stretched for 4 hours but the learning got
permanently imprinted in our minds.
The Expression
With the pilot run am very sure that this year Mandi gonna be
even more bigger and livelier
Aaghaz hi aisa hai, toh anjaam toh Buland hoga hi...
IM - 19 Batch Sec- A
