It’s not what
you learn it’s how you implement, that will be your thinking if you meet
Dr.T.Prasad popularly known as Dr.Mandi. It was our first lecture on “Principles
of Organization and Management and it were focused mainly on becoming
innovative, practical thinker and using your learning in real life scenarios.
Don’t be “Another Brick in the Wall”
“Socho Becho, Becho Seekho, Seekho Socho” was the mantra to
start our lecture. The best way to learn is to try. There’s
a very famous saying “Girte hain
shahsawar hi maidaan-e-jung mei
Woh tufl kya girenge jo ghutno ke bal chale” that was the motto of the mantra. Only
learning the concepts is of no use unless you practice them in real world
scenarios and then learn from them. Later “Another Brick in The Wall” by Pink Floyd
to show us that how an education system concentrating more on bookish knowledge
and marks can suppress the creativity, conceptual and innovative thinking of
the student and thus put another brick in the wall.
Think Conceptually
Broadly
managerial skills are divided in three categories
1. Conceptual Skills
1. Conceptual Skills
2. Human
Relations Skills
3. Technical
Skills.
In our first two lectures so far, Dr. Mandi was more focused
on Conceptual skills. In the first lecture we were shown educational toys made
out of simple things and asked to figure out the science behind their working.
The points behind those exercises were:
a. For an entrepreneur a single
innovative idea effectively implemented make dreams come true.
b. For a sales person if you know the
science behind your product you can sell it properly.
The Second lecture was Activity based to clarify the concept
of management. The activity was more of a game where the team of three people
has to Build a Tower using identical cubes. But it was not as simple as it
sounds there were some rules to play the game. The rules were:
1.
First person (Employee) would be
blindfolded and only he can access the cubes and build the tower and that also
using his left hand only.
2.
The second person (Middle Management)
was for instructing the first person or Employee on how to do things and was
responsible to guide the employee to finish the job.
3.
The third person was Top level
Management who could only interrupt in some occasions and observes the work
being done.
My learning
from this exercise was that Vision was to build the largest tower and mission
was break the previous record of 17 cubes tower.
In terms of
Goals. The goal was SMART:
Specific: We
have to create the largest tower.
Measurable:
The tower to be built was of 18 cubes.
Achievable: The target was of 18, as previous year it was
17 so it was achievable.
Realistic: It
was realistic not unpractical.
Time Bound:
It has to be completed within two hours.