Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Meeting Prof. T.Prasad for the 1st time!

Hi, everyone giving me the honor of reading this blog :)

Well firstly I thank my professor, Dr. T. Prasad for helping me initiate this wonderful method of expression and learning I wish to achieve from an MBA program. I look forward to introspection, widening my imaginative thinking, looking into my experiences for maybe viewpoints that I can now look from, and importantly to precisely express my learning from classroom and co-curricular activities and all of the above for effective communication of my thoughts and views to the wonderful readers that take their time to read something enriching on this blog. I hope I will be able to live up to these expectations!

I start with the 1st lecture of Dr. T. Prasad, which was a straight 4 hrs class!, but after which, he had a very inspiring effect on me. I was appreciating the attitude, the mindset, the approach that he wanted me and my fellow friends to learn. All of them will hit you as bold, to the point, practical ideas!

1. If I can spend or wish to spend a particular amount it is my responsibility to earn the same amount.
           I so agree to this idea! Deciding to do an MBA education or as a matter of fact my prior education or my lifestyle that I want to lead now is my and only my responsibility to make it happen. I think we all agree that it is high time to still go to parents asking for financial support (unless it is about a home,medical emergency or marriage! :D). Many of us were earning before or had a placement offer and so we all believe we have the potential to earn. Then why not now too. We can definitely and should earn during these 2 years in whatever way it suits us as individuals or as groups(Please be legal . 2 years of MBA need not be just classroom attendance. It's an open world full of opportunities only to be sought and pursued by people with an enterprising attitude and  an unrelenting passion!!!

2. The crux of economy: 'Dhanda' and 'Mandi' !
           Two simple & beautiful words yet so strong in meaning! 'Dhanda' or business and 'Mandi' or market are the basis and basics of what is happening around us. Isn't it? :)
 Dr. T. Prasad's mantra :- "Socho.. Becho,  Becho... Seekho, Seekho..Socho!! "
By this he inspires us to,
Socho : Innovate and Think, with an open mindset, of ways and methods by which we can identify or seek an opportunity of doing 'Hamara Dhanda'.
Becho : Then developing it into a practically feasible form for selling it in the 'Mandi'
Seekho :  Progressive learning from what we have implemented and executed in the 'Mandi' by doing 'Dhanda'.

Isn't it Awesome! :) So simply put and yet it is, what is required.

He showed the whole class some initiatives that were previously implemented through 'Hamara Dhanda'. Simple yet encompassing great principles of physics in themselves were some toys before us that could fascinate any and every child going to school and I am sure you must have felt that the kids nowdays have picked up the pace of learning and are intelligent from there previous generations! (Nice to think that we all will have smarter and intelligent kids! :D Godspeed!!)
These toys showcased in them the implementation of a physics principle and yet  were made by people or teenagers who work out there living selling these toys with very little or no formal education! I feel they are lucky to atleast have experienced what Newton and others wanted us to actually experience! I am sure they didn't want their findings to remain in only books to be just read, reproduced and move on!
What in actually we can learn from business point of view is how easy this opportunity seems and yet is so exciting to be propagated in every school, college or places of learning. Easy to make products, cheap raw material, easy manufacturing process delighting the customers in their learning experience. Something every child will remember throughout his life. I still remember my experiences of trying out experiments in my home and school of what i learnt in my school education- Distillation, Watering plants using diffusion principle, Benedict's solution test, making telescope and kaleidoscope etc. I was so fascinated of carrying these out and anyone could see the joy on my face of the results that came out of these experiments!

Ah! those childhood times!

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