How to prepare a Smart Goal and strive for achieving it.

Friends Today's topic is of goal setting ...

The punch line which came after Today's class is -

GOAL SETTINGS SHOULD BE SPIRAL

The class started with enthu as usual ,mandi sir came up with yet another new handicraft ,some kind of wired boxes with red and blue colour and moreover it can be dismantled again and can be recreated into some other shape.He explained the concept of solving maths equation like a+b whole square ,cube with that wired box.

The idea behind telling this weird concept was to make us understand the importance of normal wired cube.he wanted us to realize how this simple product can be marketed and sold in a real world market.

Next he told us about the annual report of The Economic Times in which a spiral appeared and then came another thing from his JuteBag and this time it was a snail which is spiral in shape ,he wanted each and everyone sitting in the class to feel the shape of spiral .He told us how Economic Times business grew spirally.

we can relate the spiral concept with the help of Fibonacci series.

1+1+2+4+8+16

He also gave us the important formula 

G.S*G.A =Performance.

where G.S =Goal setting

          G.A=Goal acheived

After this he gave us the same tower building exercise to beginwith once again and he drew one graph shown below.

In the above graph the highest point is Goal Set after that potential after that Goal achieved and the last one is history.

The crux of the lecture was Pygmalion effect.This effect says that the greater the expectation placed upon people the better they perform.so in the tower building exercise our class history was of 27 cubes ,first thing was done to set the target and it was set at 50 .After that Achieved target was got and it was pretty impressive but i will not be able to disclose it here :)

So friends This is it for today ,see you in coming sessions.

The Bidder ,The Auctioneer, The Scintilla of Knowledge in a Ocean full of Knowledge !

So finally the first session of this subject  is over and believe me this has to be an introductory session of every firm which hire budding managers.

I sincerely regret that I was not able to capture the video of this lecture because I was so indulged in it. Anyways I will try my level best to give you an essence of this session .First of all I want to tell that I was in so much of an awe after the session was over ,of the way Mandi sir took his session .I mean to say that I never ever in my entire student career I came across this type of session where the message is conveyed in such an art full way where you don’t need to open a book ,write down anything and still you think that you have completed the whole encyclopedia of organizational management.

He started the lecture with an exercise of building tower with cubes of similar sizes. He is not shy from asking us to bid for this event  in real Indian currency and it should be in multiple of 100.some smart chaps started the bid with 100 and as a real auctioneer he was able to make us bid till 500.The person who did the bid would have never thought that the more he bid the more chocolates everyone else in the class is going to get. With a fake smile in his face, that he got an opportunity because he bid more, he came in front of class to do that exercise. The exercise was to build the cube tower which I try to describe it with below image.

The smart chap was able to build the tower of 16 cubes which is good by any standard .Then mandi sir asked us the question is it possible to go ahead like this and till how many. Everyone understood that it is not possible to go ahead with this because we understood that it has some limitation because of gravity, weight etc .Then he explained us that this is the problem with any business which is run by craftsmen ,he gave us numerous examples of Idli wala,a shoe maker,a dhobi ,a jewelry shop owner etc. He told that this is not management ,immediately a question came to my mind why this is not management because i thought this is management but it needs to be improvised and i gave an example which can be explained by below image.

But he clarified that this has also got limitation which i understood .so here comes the conclusion that "Craftmanship is not a management"

Wise man say that a good beginning is Job half done, by relying on those i started learning the concept of management and it started with another activity.This time he choose a group of  8 people and gave the same task with some caveats and below are point by point word by word explanation of those.

1.only one person will be making the tower with his eyes closed.

2.every person will be able to talk to the person just infront of him not anyone else.

Below is a pictorial representation of it.

   

The very first obvious question while starting this activity is how many blocks will they able to build as a tower the reply was 15.now the person whose eyes are closed started building the tower one by one and the person just after him is guiding him whenever he was going wrong but other person after him was also giving him suggestions and similar every person standing apart was giving advice to person in front of him and finally he managed it till 10 only.

The learning from this activity are described below.

1. Lot of people are advising each other instead of doing the real work.The solution should have been right in the beginning they must have formed a team of doers,supporters,maintaince work,auditing work,testing work etc.
2. In the first place the assessment should have done according to the skillset of persons.
3. After the tower fell the learnings should have been noted down so that it should not repeat in future.
4. All middle level managers are useless is the notion in industry and for this to change the actual work needs to be identified. 

Here I am pausing this journey for a while ,I will regain my Knowledge and will be back in couple of days.

Enough of Work as wiper,Now its time to make a car

Its Raining Heavily in mumbai.Roads are flodded ,Flights and Trains are Delayed ,this is the buzz in the news when i was giving a final Touch to Packing.Mom are moms,she is insisting to pack a tiffin for the journey which btw will be a 1 hour 50 mins flight.So finally I left my place by taking blessings from my 105 years grandfather.I was assured of best luck from God himself.I reached the newly created Airport of my hometown Raipur on time touched the feet of my dada ,he generously gave me 4 500rs note i.e 2000 rs.
so i boarded the Air India flight ,was stunned to see a gorgeous airhostess, because i heard that Air India airhostess are too aunty types.for the first time in life i was praying to god to delay the flight but nevertheless it was very much on time.

Here comes the mayanagri "Amchi Mumbai",I landed there and directly one guy came to me and asked me to take his prepaid taxi ,here comes the great marketing funda from mighty surviving taxiwalas of mumbai.he almost convinced me to take his taxi but at last moment i escaped from him and took an auto and reached Nitie campus at 6 pm.I completed all the formalities and was given a 4 no hostel which i happily took as i was not aware that it is the greatest inhouse residence to live among all the other ones.I met my roommate and other wingmates.

Now the actual fun starts ,as my roommate is a resident of mumbai he left for his place and i was all alone in room no 457 of  my Sapno ka mahal.I started thinking from where i started my journey and why i am here blah blah and finally slept saying goodnight to me.next day i completed all my formalities of college and left for pune,the place where i lived for almost 4 years.I had an awesome time with my old freinds,badkismati se sirf ladke hi dost hai apne .with heavy heart on sunday afternoon at 3pm i left pune by my favourite Neeta volvo.first they played aurangzeb movie which i have not watched and was thrilled that time will pass easily but unfourtanely they changed it to Yamla Pagla Deewana which i watched with great respect for bobby
deol.

Now comes the motivator who forced me to write the second post of my blog ,the great man Dr Mandi.
It was the very first Lecture of Section A.he gave some awesome one liners "Aaj ki roti aaj hi kamana hai".
He inspired everyone for enterprising and played my favourite "Pink floyd".Ahh Tired of writing in one go,low on energy and thoughts also.

To be continued sometime later.