point well taken boss

Its been that kind of sem. classes been going on and over the tiem i am having doubts over doing a course in management . now we even have a class called business ethics, it would be interestign to do a study on how many fo the ceo's and other decision makers have done a course in ethics and above all whether it would make any difference ot them. as far as i see it all decision making comes from a set of moral principles that is instileld in you. now if taht is all screwed up , make christ take classes and it would make no difference unless the person concerned wants to make a positive change.

fuck the left

where is the renowned left in India? The left as the communists would like to call themselves are probably the most hypocritical bastards that ever were there on planet earth. Maybe thats the whole idea, then they are doing a very good job of it. We may all like to think that a red world has ceased to exist and the idea killed itself with the collapse of the russian federation. But I think that the idea has becoem far stronger through far sublter ideas. Think of it, the ideas doing the rounds in various forums around the world: brotherhood to be found in religion? the govt as caretaker? differential taxes so that equitable distribution of wealth takes place? govt's with a social face? govt s playing 'mai-baap' to the populace? All these ideas are essentially different facets of the communist idea of 'sharing'. Creativity be damned, everything needs to be shared. The whole deal of team play comes to existense from this concept. Team, balls , the greatest discoveries have happened at the individual level. A team essentially serves to decrease your effficiecny in as much that most of the you spend thinking about possible reations to your positions.
You would actually think that relgion would be anit-communist. Hello! you are mistaken, religion does not need the sage who realizes god and then questions the methods that are advocated. Bad press for the vaticans etc of the world. You want unsuspecting public who would give up their rational thinking process to be part of something big. ( Like dogs got convinced to be our pets by our ancestors :) ).

i cant think of anything to criticize

What the fuck, so I will praise one of the most remarkable persons that I have ever met. Prof Ramkumar, Services marketing. The man is pure enthu, think of this-he takes 7.5 hrs of classes spanning 10 hrs and then lands up at the hostel football court. Snake charmer, chemist, traveller, academic, father, husband, crusader, teacher and probably many other things too. True, I really dont like his teaching style that much because for slow thinkers like me the class does not provide an opportunity to get to the bottom of any sort of thought process. But the enthusiasm of the guy is difficult to beat. I still cant figure out how a person can have such an amazing eye for details after a long gruelling day.

It would be interested if somebody decided to monitor our thought processes while we are in class. Are our thoughts influenced by what we hear? how much of our thought process actually changes over a period of time? does teaching have any sort of effect on what actions that you take or is the action determined by what you essentially believe in.

I have always thought that when the final question of decision making comes humans will alwayls decide on the basis of their core values. Since the core values are dependent on the environment ( as a function of upbringing), acceptable social positions actually become the dominant values in a populace. That is the reason that many of the fanatical movements have spread in the modern world. ( The debate still rages on, are we truly modern?).

Maybe our generation is in built with an enormous amount of cynicism ( I am a self-proclaimed cynic by the way) or we simply do not understand what the dynamics of the game are. The guy goes on about bringing passion into your life and defining your life to that one thing and here we are shaking our heads. You never need to agree, but each thought needs careful consideration. The hilarious part is that the same group of people when put under a similar situation will come up with the same ideas and think that they have done a remarkable job out of it. But maybe thats how its supposed to be.

As the co-creator of this blog sez : " you cant beat destiny mate"
I dont disagree. :)

the similarity between organizations and stock markets

almost at the end of my summer training and i begin to wonder " what the fuck i am i doing here?, this is chaos man...". but on second thoughts ... is it actually? from what i gather most of the organizations seem to be very haphhazard in their operations. this is the same irrespective of which vertical the organization belongs to or what model of the organaniation exists. disgruntled employees, no proper sytems, apathy towards trainees, politics, fire-fighting, deadline bound work ... seems to be everywhere. this is the all due to competition etc....
that si what appears tothe naked eye, but just as the stock market prices the stocks wiht respect to some long term 'image' ofthe company so do these companies findtheri niche for the long run. the volatility of the stock market represents the churning thathappens at the corporate. but over and above it only ensures that the best only survive. it means that the compnaies which cannot stand this kind of fluctuatiosn will not survive.
need a perspective onthis, 1 am is definitely not the time :D

What is the 'buzz' about management?

Was speaking to anshu about what is the big fuss about grading management students and then chucking them out of institutes. Considering the fact that many of those chucked out have handled immense responsiblities while having been in office in favour of us 'freshers' jsut because we can mug better is preposterous. Which brings me to the fundamental question?
What is management? Is it about gettting grades, or mastery over 'management theory' ( those 'enlightening theories ranging from my poor nerd Mintzberg to the epochal 'late' Ghoshal), or is it getting the trust of your c0-workers? or is it wizardry with numbers ? Or as we always like it is it a mixture of all these things? Who the fuck knows what it is , but every bodywants to do management from a prestigious institute. Not that any of the products of these insti's are not successful, even though the companies may have been created by entrepreneur's their running has mostly been left to professional managers and the world has not been a worse place beacause of that. Gettign back to my original point, the fact that people are branded good or bad managers is preposterous. The best that one can do say that " this guy is good with people", or this guy is " numerically inclined". On the actual job, unless your slogging your ass off in an investment bank (those gods with huge pay checks and look at that car guys ) for 18 hrs , chances are taht your average numerical skills will still ensure a pretty good career for you. And since you are able to execute perfectly people will still trust you.