After the amazing first class

After the amazing first class, the expectations were quite high, the curiosity started taking over me. But here we were talking about Mr. Mandi, and as far as I knew he delivered the best out of him every day. In the 2^nd class he entered with a cherubic smile, I was sure something exciting was on its way.

              He started with some questions about building a single cube tower . Students started guessing a random number not knowing about the significance of that number. It was when Mr. Mandi asked to build the tower blind folded, every student started thinking about the significance of that number, now there was no blind guess J. Well if I don’t talk about the selection criteria for building the tower it would be a complete injustice from my side. It was a bidding process. The student placing highest bid for the first round was allowed to come to the stage. And now the fun began. He placed 22 cubes one upon another before they demolished. Every one clapped and it was time for our second bidding. Fortunately two of my colleagues and I were selected for this task. One was assigned the task of placing cubes, I was the manager guiding him since he was blind folded and the third was the CEO. 

              We started building the tower and there was a lot of applause from the audience because this time they knew that the task was not an easy one.  I started giving directions and my friend followed it nicely. Many a times it felt like the tower would no longer sustain but with our mutual cooperation, we cross every hurdle. My blind folded friend followed every instruction which I gave him and we succeeded, followed by lots of applause and cheers.

                Then it was time for the management lesson we learn from it. Mr. Mundi started explaining the difference between the Modern organizational structure and the old organizational structure or craftsmanship. He related the open eyed person with the old organizational structure because he can take decisions and the blind folded person with the modern organizational structure because his ability to take decision was hindered. In modern organizational structure only the top management takes all the decision and the employees have to follow it blindly. He also iterated the increase or decrease in the magnitude of work, skill, satisfaction and time for both the organizational structure.

 Now the lesson was cemented in our minds. Thank you Mr. Mundi for this fun filled and knowledgeable class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Old saying goes like....God is graceful. Yes I believe he is, for me at least. Studying at NITIE made me realize that. I remember the auspicious day I entered NITIE, my eyes were glittering in the night seeing the scenic beauty, I was awestruck watching the greenery every where in the campus, hard to believe I was still in Mumbai. And of course how can I forget writing about the NITIE lake, it was an eye candy, seemed hard to turn your eyes around to see any other thing. The plethora of beauty turns this place into God's own campus.
                            The interaction with the seniors was an awesome experience, more than I, they were concerned about making my stay beautiful. The work done in the first five days was more than the work done in my whole two and half years of work experience :). Hard work of our seniors paid off, now I have a habit of staying awake the whole night. But till then we had not seen enough. It was when Dr. Prasad entered the class, the out of the world excitement began when he asked every student to leave the chairs and made them sit on the floors. This was an altogether different and a new experience, haven't seen professor sitting on the floors with the students. That time I realized something exciting is going to happen in the next 2 hours. And I was right!

                           He changed my perception of entering in one of the most economical B-school of our country and made me realize the worth of every penny I spend here. His words were like the gospel truth when he told that "earning while learning" will make my MBA complete. And "Mandi" is the path that would make that happen. And then every word of his just started making sense. The idea of selling small educational goods in the streets of Mumbai was in itself a tantalizing one.
His method of teaching is totally novel and awesome. He made every engineer in us feel like a school going kid when the good minds of our class failed to explain the simple concept of Physics present in a small toy.

 Well there will always be an  ample amount of knowledge we need to learn, be it small or big. Now I don't have to be concerned about my fun filled journey here, I believe the classes of Mr. "Mandi" would cater to that. Hope to see classes like that happening again and again!