League of MBA Bloggers
It helps to find out you have a community of people out there going through the same experience , writing similar kind of stuff as you are.
This blog collection from students present & perspective (MBA's) from across the world is really interesting
The few that I went throu talked about similar Stuff a guy from Wharton talking about time management, networking & sleeping in class.It almost like deja vu
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Monday, January 26, 2004
Jan 25, 2004 or Jan 26, 2004 early morning if i want to be precise.Seniors nite is my second realization of the bonding that exists at this place. The last one being Summer Internship Process. Did I really see some people walking out the small audi with tears & red eyes.The rational me would have said no But the real me says indeed. If I could feel slighly emotional about this place yesterday when I still have an year to go, those who are leaving this small self contained little world of ours would really be feeling the loss. Hats off to dracula n the video team for coming up with such a good show.Our efforts were really paid off today when some of them conveyed thjeir heartfelt appreciations
Anyways Macroeconomics seems to really interesting.Dr Reshmi Mitra, amazing proff. Am keen on finding out if she still with XL. She too seems to be a part of the 'XL tradition' though. Thirteen years old if not more
Anyways Macroeconomics seems to really interesting.Dr Reshmi Mitra, amazing proff. Am keen on finding out if she still with XL. She too seems to be a part of the 'XL tradition' though. Thirteen years old if not more
Friday, January 23, 2004
The waters are deeper than i thought.
My reaction to to Moody's lifting of Indian curency's credit rating has been that of relief. Playing the investment advisor can be tough & tricky as I found out in last few days of supposed correction that ET welcomed in its editorial. Needless to say I was vexed. Its for the first time I tried to offer stock market advice & my first prediction seemed to have fallen flat in its face ;)
But two days later today thanks to SEBI clearing air about the ban on participatory notes the markets to be back on track again. But moral of the story there are a lot of things I need to learn & understand. Apparently as Proff Mohanty said, there are a little too many things at play there. Finanacial Management after all deals only with expected price of a share.The road from Finance Concepts to Stock Markets is tougher than I thought.
My reaction to to Moody's lifting of Indian curency's credit rating has been that of relief. Playing the investment advisor can be tough & tricky as I found out in last few days of supposed correction that ET welcomed in its editorial. Needless to say I was vexed. Its for the first time I tried to offer stock market advice & my first prediction seemed to have fallen flat in its face ;)
But two days later today thanks to SEBI clearing air about the ban on participatory notes the markets to be back on track again. But moral of the story there are a lot of things I need to learn & understand. Apparently as Proff Mohanty said, there are a little too many things at play there. Finanacial Management after all deals only with expected price of a share.The road from Finance Concepts to Stock Markets is tougher than I thought.
Friday, January 09, 2004
The days of luxury are almost over.The grinding begins from tomorrow.
Anyways I read this interesting article by an alumni of ours. HR isn't my forte but still what he wrote struck me a on a completely different plane.
Gautam Ghosh writes.
" In the pre-electronic days, even though knowledge was the big thing, it was no good till there was the tangible expression for this knowledge.Then, it was assumed that the knowledge was no good without the other skills like manufacturing, building, etc. Expertise was no good unless it was bundled with other skills, probably prompting George Bernard Shaw to remark "Those who can, do. Those who can’t, they teach!". "
How true. He goes on further to coment on things have changed today (which might be true as far as HR context of Knowledge Management is concerned).The article has been voted among the best of 2003 by HR.com
I am still not sure they have on the plane that I am thinking. Idea seems to have lesser importance than the implementation. Taking a small example from the world, we remember Wright brothers who flew the first plane not the people who made unsuccessful attempts before them. Even in course of my life I see people who are valued or who seem to headed up are not those who can think well but who can conceptualize & present well.
Reminds me of the debate topic recently - "Creative Thought is better than Scientific Thought". Its definitely not if a professor of HR in the institute is to be believed. The idea can not sustain its forte without being given a concrete form- not in the world I going to be living in for the time to come.Much as I wish to side with the idea the rational part of my brain insists n putting the implementation higher up in the list. Precisely what they say management teaches and what organizations evaluate you on.Proff Fenn would have called this the group think or peer pressure effect perhaps .
This tussle of idea and implementation in my brain is an old one though. I see a very consistent pattern to what side I take & why? Its introspection time again perhaps.........
Anyways I read this interesting article by an alumni of ours. HR isn't my forte but still what he wrote struck me a on a completely different plane.
Gautam Ghosh writes.
" In the pre-electronic days, even though knowledge was the big thing, it was no good till there was the tangible expression for this knowledge.Then, it was assumed that the knowledge was no good without the other skills like manufacturing, building, etc. Expertise was no good unless it was bundled with other skills, probably prompting George Bernard Shaw to remark "Those who can, do. Those who can’t, they teach!". "
How true. He goes on further to coment on things have changed today (which might be true as far as HR context of Knowledge Management is concerned).The article has been voted among the best of 2003 by HR.com
I am still not sure they have on the plane that I am thinking. Idea seems to have lesser importance than the implementation. Taking a small example from the world, we remember Wright brothers who flew the first plane not the people who made unsuccessful attempts before them. Even in course of my life I see people who are valued or who seem to headed up are not those who can think well but who can conceptualize & present well.
Reminds me of the debate topic recently - "Creative Thought is better than Scientific Thought". Its definitely not if a professor of HR in the institute is to be believed. The idea can not sustain its forte without being given a concrete form- not in the world I going to be living in for the time to come.Much as I wish to side with the idea the rational part of my brain insists n putting the implementation higher up in the list. Precisely what they say management teaches and what organizations evaluate you on.Proff Fenn would have called this the group think or peer pressure effect perhaps .
This tussle of idea and implementation in my brain is an old one though. I see a very consistent pattern to what side I take & why? Its introspection time again perhaps.........
Monday, January 05, 2004
The days of luxury are almost over.Classes from tomorrow.
Anyways I read this interesting article by an alumni of ours. HR isn't my forte but still what he wrote struck me a on a completely different plane.
The gentleman(Mr Gautam Ghosh) writes.
" In the pre-electronic days, even though knowledge was the big thing, it was no good till there was the tangible expression for this knowledge.Then, it was assumed that the knowledge was no good without the other skills like manufacturing, building, etc. Expertise was no good unless it was bundled with other skills, probably prompting George Bernard Shaw to remark "Those who can, do. Those who can’t, they teach!". "
How true. He goes on further to coment on things have changed today (which might be true as far as HR context of Knowledge Management is concerned).The article has been voted among the best of 2003 by HR.com
I am still not sure they have on the plane that I am thinking. Idea seems to have lesser importance than the implementation. Taking a small example from the world, we remember Wright brothers who flew the first plane not the people who made unsuccessful attempts before them. Even in course of my life I see people who are valued or who seem to headed up are not those who can think well but who can conceptualize & present well.
Reminds me of the debate topic recently - "Creative Thought is better than Scientific Thought". Its it definitely not if a professor of HR in the institute is to be believed. The idea can not sustain its forte without being given a concrete form- not in the world I going to be living in for the time to come.Much as I wish to side with the idea the rational part of my brain insists n putting the implementation higher up in the list. Precisely what they say management teaches and what organizations evaluate you on.Proff Fenn would have called this the group think or peer pressure effect perhaps .
This tussle of idea and implementation in my brain is an old one though. I see a very consistent pattern to what side I take & why? Its introspection time again perhaps.........
Anyways I read this interesting article by an alumni of ours. HR isn't my forte but still what he wrote struck me a on a completely different plane.
The gentleman(Mr Gautam Ghosh) writes.
" In the pre-electronic days, even though knowledge was the big thing, it was no good till there was the tangible expression for this knowledge.Then, it was assumed that the knowledge was no good without the other skills like manufacturing, building, etc. Expertise was no good unless it was bundled with other skills, probably prompting George Bernard Shaw to remark "Those who can, do. Those who can’t, they teach!". "
How true. He goes on further to coment on things have changed today (which might be true as far as HR context of Knowledge Management is concerned).The article has been voted among the best of 2003 by HR.com
I am still not sure they have on the plane that I am thinking. Idea seems to have lesser importance than the implementation. Taking a small example from the world, we remember Wright brothers who flew the first plane not the people who made unsuccessful attempts before them. Even in course of my life I see people who are valued or who seem to headed up are not those who can think well but who can conceptualize & present well.
Reminds me of the debate topic recently - "Creative Thought is better than Scientific Thought". Its it definitely not if a professor of HR in the institute is to be believed. The idea can not sustain its forte without being given a concrete form- not in the world I going to be living in for the time to come.Much as I wish to side with the idea the rational part of my brain insists n putting the implementation higher up in the list. Precisely what they say management teaches and what organizations evaluate you on.Proff Fenn would have called this the group think or peer pressure effect perhaps .
This tussle of idea and implementation in my brain is an old one though. I see a very consistent pattern to what side I take & why? Its introspection time again perhaps.........
Sunday, January 04, 2004
The last fortnight of 2003 was eventful, not in my life but definitely on campus.Term break, Dalma Trek,Delhi trip ( 3 days of comfort back at home piggybanking on a debate;)), HR Conference (Missed this one) and then MAXI Fair. The icing on the cake of course was the alumni reunion. On campus after 25 years..I expected too see some old, tired people, but there they were!! bigshots in their companies, all so full of life. Nostalgic - Quite a few of them were on the dance floor till the wee hours of morning. They laughed, they joked, performed skits, mimiced proffs et all with confidence & as syko pointed to us that generation of XLERS could actually sing ;).MAXIFAIR seems to be specifically designed to improve the creative talents of first year management students. It all culminated on December 31 with a dinner before joining the wetnite (the official party with bonfires) on campus
2004 seems to have begin on too relaxed a note. Strangely enough as I write all this, I realize I haven't made any new year resolutions. I guessed I have matured enough in life not to go through the trouble of making things just to break them.
Three days without classes is quite a luxury here at XL. Life has been slow, infact close to a full stop the last few days with me trying to figure out what all I need to do. I have managed to come up with a long list to decide to do everthing which is not even remotely related to academics.So it has been three movies & about 50 odd mails ( the regular new year stuff ) in last 2 days for me.
The last few hours have been on the net which, has resulted in my signing up for blogspot and ryze. In 2003 was LIVE2READ (another's writers community this). 2004 seems to for blogging and ryzing
2004 seems to have begin on too relaxed a note. Strangely enough as I write all this, I realize I haven't made any new year resolutions. I guessed I have matured enough in life not to go through the trouble of making things just to break them.
Three days without classes is quite a luxury here at XL. Life has been slow, infact close to a full stop the last few days with me trying to figure out what all I need to do. I have managed to come up with a long list to decide to do everthing which is not even remotely related to academics.So it has been three movies & about 50 odd mails ( the regular new year stuff ) in last 2 days for me.
The last few hours have been on the net which, has resulted in my signing up for blogspot and ryze. In 2003 was LIVE2READ (another's writers community this). 2004 seems to for blogging and ryzing
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