"EVERYONE IS HEARING, NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION"

Its been a long gap of 2 years that I have published my thoughts on this platform. The excuse could be many but to make it crisp and short: - my organization blessed me with some incredibly interesting projects which kept me busy. The word "Busy" here is requested to be considered in a positive denotation. The last two years has been a long journey of my transition from Marketing (Digital Marketer) to Project Coordination to much more exciting domain of Project Management.  Going ahead, I will try my best to publish as and when I can. I will keep them short and quick. Enjoy Reading!! 

"EVERYONE IS HEARING, NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION"

Every Organization on this planet has issues; issues that initially looks smaller  and over a period they transform into a Dinosaur ready to eat you. There could be multiple reasons for this small egg to turn into a Big Dinosaur. But one major reason is "Every one is hearing, no one is paying attention"

You don’t get it right with one eye closed!!!

You don’t get it right with one eye closed!!!

Ever imagined how does it sense to look around with one eye closed? I guess many of us have tried that and also have found that you don’t get to see the complete picture of the view in front of you. And none of us would want to be the pirate character whose one eye is covered with a black cloth.

In real life if we want to see the world with two eyes open, then why don’t we understand that we gotta see the business world even with the same two eyes open. In majority of cases the students at Business School or academic institutions and the newly joined freshers at the offices are trained in a way to see the world with only one eye open.  I recently had few converstaions with the newly passed out MBA’s from different B-Schools who joined different national and multi-national companies. Majority of these people said that what they were taught at the B-schools was no where in connection to the reality. The major problem which every one faced was they were trained to be a specialist in one subject of business management without connecting the dots with the other areas of management. For Example: one person who specialised in marketing  working in a shipping company had the problem while closing the deals with the clients because he had the best knowledge in marketing but no knowledge of finance, operations and law.

Therefore for any successful business professional today it is a must that he doesn’t see the business world with one eye closed. He/She should posse’s knowledge in each and every area of Business management. it 

Regards,

Rohit Tiwari

MBA & the Ganga Belief.....

MBA- Master of Business Administartion, PGDM - Post Graduate Diploma in Management are few of the courses under the academic domain of Business management which are hugely popular today. If we consider the growth of this domain of studies, it is surpassing any other masters course like M.Tech, MCA, M.Com and many more.

In India, the belief with which one joins this intellectual course is as same as the belief a person has with the river Ganga (the Holy river according to Hinduism). Like the belief with the River Ganga states "one dip in Ganga and all your sins will wash away"; likewise majority of the students who joins this course thinks that they just have to enroll for the course and their life is all settled.

The centuries long belief with Ganga has been misinterpreted. The real and apt interpretation according to mythology : "One who takes a dip in the river Ganga will do it because he/she accepts that they have done some sins and they will struggle hard to make sure that they wont do it ever again in their life". So the person who goes to Ganga have a goal that he/she will do good deeds and be pure. But in reality people have tailored this belief according to their convenience saying that "one dip in Ganga and you are sinless".

Same is the case with the MBA/PGDM course, people think this course to be an ATM machine, you insert you card (Fee) from one end and you get the cash (Great Placement) from the other end. But students forgets to understand that they need to work hard, understand the business scenario, groom themselves and so on. In this dream that just by having admission they will get placed well stops their growth and finally they end up getting jobs which otherwise an uneducated fellow may also deliver.

I would also like to discuss the fact that an MBA student from an average college struggles more than a student from IVY League college to get placed due to several reasons. The reason for this thinking of mine is : a student who gets admission in a Top B-school have to just focus on studies and assignments but a student from average B-School have to  push themselves harder to get placed. The learning which one acquires in struggling is far much better than one which is bought through a brand name of the school.

I really appreciate what the lead character of Mr. Chetan Bhagats recent novel titled "Revolution 2020" says. He says "If you are in the top 20 Percent of the entrance exam rank holders then you are seen as a guy with intellectual brains,;if you don't belong to that league of 20 Percent, then you are seen as a good for nothing fellow". I think this loop hole in the education system has to be drastically change, the approving authority like AICTE , Ministry of HRD etc should not provide grants to the incapable institutions. 

Regards,
Rohit Tiwari