LE01 and LE02

The first lecture of Prof Prasad was an eye opener for me. It was on that day I realised that if I can spend X amount of money I can definitely earn X amount. So if I am spending Rs.100 a day, it is my duty to earn Rs.100. For earning also what better way then selling innovative, informative small toys made by children in an NGO.  Prof Prasad also informed about MANDI, the platform through which we are supposed to sell the toys and earn every penny whatever we have spent. He also informed about Hamara Dhandha, in which students have to register their own company and have to run that for atleast 2 years. If things turn out to be good then the same can be continued further.The way things were conveyed was really astounding. I (and I think everyone in class) have never seen such pedagogy in my life and I feel this kind of pedagogy is very effective.


The second lecture dealt with goal settings as well as importance of communication while performing a job or while working in a team. This was explained with the help of a simple exercise.

Exercise

One has to make a tower out of small cubes. Everyone was asked to quote number of cubes that can be placed over one another without letting the tower to fall. I put the number at 20 initially then he said it is to be done with your wrong hand i.e. if you are a right hander you have to do the job with left hand. At that very instant my number came down to 15. When one of our batchmate performed the job he end up piling 19 cubes as against 10 as quoted by himself.  Next Prof Prasad asked to quote if the person is blind folded and one more person will give him direction to make the tower. My number came down to 10.

Analysis 
In the class there were some students who said that number will come down from what they have quoted for the previous condition, some who retained their number and none of the student increased the number. The reason for this was the presumption that when two person work together there might be a communication gap thereby reducing the efficiency of the student doing the job. I was surprised to find out that in other section that students were able to complete 17 with the given condition. This clearly states that the number was achievable even with the second condition.

Learning

 I learned that its the responsibility of management to put that "i can do" spirit in the employees so that they can perform better which can be done through proper communication. Message should be properly conveyed to the employees that irrespective of the hurdles, they have to achieve whatever target has been set. Management means communicating right things at right time which in turn means performance thus management means performance.