"The Modern Manager"

After the amazing learning experience from the first lecture I was wondering what Dr. Mandi’s will bring this time in his “Magical Pitara”. This time it was no surprise to sit in the Desi Style. So finally the “Pitara” was opened & Sir stared throwing the wooden cuboids towards the students.

 Task 1:

    Sir asked the students to build a Tower using the wooden cuboids in a single column as high as possible with no restrictions. He asked students to bid for the number of blocks that could be arranged to form a tower. After many proposals one student agreed to form a tower having a minimum of 17 blocks. So the guy started building the tower cautiously & surpassed his target & made a tower using 22 Cuboids.

Task 2:

   Sir again asked the students to build a Tower using the wooden cuboids but with the condition that one will be blindfolded & have to use his left hand only. One can take the help of his other two friends for guidance to place the block. Bidding started but this time everyone was playing a safe game. No one was ready for Sir’s challenge of making a tower using more than 22 blocks. Finally three students accepted the challenge. They were given designation of Worker, Manager & CEO. Worker will do the task with the guidance of   Manager. CEO will have to supervise. Nobody was expecting them to cross the number above 22. Surprisingly the team breaks the target by making a tower of 27 blocks.

   

Learning:

1.       When Sir asked in Task 1 to bid for number of blocks the students bided for 18-20 blocks. But when the guy actually built the tower he was able to handle 22 blocks. So one should not underestimate oneself. One should always aim high.

2.       In the Task 2 when the participant was blindfolded everybody lowered their target. But the blindfolded person was able to manage 27 blocks. With this experiment Sir taught us the difference between Old Management Vs New Management. In conventional management system most of the decisions are taken by working staff which actually reduces their efficiency because they could not focus on their work. In this system the whole set of operation are done by a single person. In New Management system takes out the power of decision making from working staff. The top management takes all the decisions enabling the working staff to focus on their work. In this system the work is divided as per the following diagram.

So the working staff only focuses on the elements of the work.

Parameter	Old Management	New Management
Work	Ambiguous	Crystal Clear
Skill	Skillful	Deskill
Decision Making	Working Hand	Top Management
Productivity	Low	High

At the end concluding that if you want to became a good manager follow the New management system & give rewards & recognition to the working staff. 

Inception.....(POM)

    It was raining outside & I was waiting for the class to begin. Professor came & asked us to sit in the front on the floor. Suddenly I recalled my old school days where we used to sit like that, but as Professor (Mr. T Prasad so called “Proff Mandi”) started his lecture I just lost in his words. After this session I felt that I am at the right place to gain the practical knowledge.

    The session started with the questions from the students. Sir clarified all our doubts regarding “MANDI”. Sir gave the details of his background. It was good to hear from the Professor that he was “born to teach“ & that reflected in his acts. Then he took out some toys from his bags & distributed to some of the students. There was a playing ball on which a globe was printed, a Newton's Cradle. I never thought that through these toys we could learn something but sir proved me wrong.

      We realized that even we haven’t experienced the effect of different number of ball impacts. So through this we learned that these toys should be available in every school and institute where science is taught but it’s an irony that we don’t have a single shop selling such items around IIT Bombay or NITIE campus. This shows the attitude of our society towards practical learning. Sir told us about the how the two students from Production Engineering background utilized this opportunity & established their own firm.

     Then he showed the ball on which the globe was printed. Such a simple idea but why it didn't clicked in my mind for so many years. A boy can play with it as well learn from the globe printed on it.

     The important point I learned that an opportunity lies around us, we just have to think differently & grab it. We have learned a lot throughout our student life now it is the time to apply it & earn. Sir made us think that we are investing around 15 to 20 lakh of money for the education & we have to make most of it. We need to earn while learn.

      This session changed my thought process & I look around me for any opportunity.