Humara Dhandha !!!

First lecture of POM started with Mr. Prasad giving us nice talk on our opportunity cost at NITIE, MANDI, concept started by Mr. Prasad himself, which involves selling toys on street thereby bringing our soft and management skills into use and motivated us to be an entrepreneur our self.

Humara Dhanda Slogan : 

Socho ... Becho ! Becho ... Sekho ! Seekho ... Socho !

Behtar Padhai ke Liye...Kamai !

Earning by Learning & Learning by Earning !

Aaj ki Roti ... Aaj He Kamayenge !

First, we discussed on crossing the river assignment, where Mr. Prasad showed a picture and the class discussed how the three guys would cross the gap as that no one falls. Everyone came up with their points and discussed on the role each guy had in crossing.

Then there was talk on Excellence and how efficiency and effectiveness are important instruments without which excellence can’t be achieved.

Excellence = Efficiency X Effectiveness

And to explain this concept there was a tower building exercise in which a student for suppose to build a tower with small cubes using his odd hand only.

Then the student who was performing the task class was asked to guess the number of cubes he’ll be able to stack and the same question was asked to the entire class.

Though the student performing the task kept a target of 10 only, he could build a tower of 18 cubes, which actually illustrated how he underrated his capabilities and potential.

There were three type of response observed:

·          More that 18 cubes: These were ambitious goals where achievable goal was set more than attainable goal and displayed optimistic management.

·         Less than 18 cube: These kinds of people underestimated the performance of the student and displayed pessimist management.

·         Exactly 18 cubes: These people were perfect on target but goal set should be more than attainable goal because only then you can reach towards your potential.

Now, the rules of the game were changed and this time the student was suppose to play blind folded. We were again made to guess the number of cubes he wouls stack and almost everybody came down with their numbers.

This was a simple situation illustrating how we lower our goals at difficult times. We should always set the target higher than our potential.

Session was simple but taught me some very important management concepts in a fun way !!!