Leader or Manager? What is my calling?

Today we had a session on “Leaders and Managers” in OA. We had 4 wonderful Readings on leadership and management. (read some of them: Narcissistic Leaders, Managers and Leaders - Are they Different?). The readings are thought provoking. After living 24 years and going through so many textbooks and people I still cant define what [...]

Midterms over. Now what?

Almost. Except for Operations Management II all other mids are over. Due to a small accident the OM mid is rescheduled. To make life more exciting post midterm i am planning to,
- Complete Barbarians at the Gate The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Absolut Biography of a Bottle and ofcourse Life of Pi- Listen to more [...]

About Classroom Humor & IT Textbooks

I sit behind Ashwin (our quiz club secy) in the classroom. Both of us have a general hatred towards classroom learning and on any given day atleast one of will be sleeping in the class even though Ass wouldnt agree to the fact that he is sleeping. So to fight the attack of sleep and [...]

Yesterday, I was making a ppt for some operations related issues and came across a couple of articles on the web related to how manufacturing outsourcing is happening. While reading one of the articles I have realized a strange thing. It is, companies obcession with acronyms. So much so that they have acronyms like MOST [...]

Accounting of Exams !

Well, you have seen them all. Cost accounting, management accounting, HR accounting, this accounting, that accounting. But Accounting of Exams??? Well, I guess there is no such concept in existence till now.
Hmm, so something original, you must be thinking. But even if you are remotely aware of the blog title you will remember that [...]

Ideas … Infinite!

Well, it is not a T-shirt caption. Rather it is about the current term in the 2 year course i want to blog. When term3 kick started 10 days ago, I thought it would be another 30% content and 70% global term with more fundaes on various areas of management and understanding people. I couldnt [...]

Of exams and holidays

only financial management exam is left. its going to be a 60% objective and 40% descriptive exam. quite some material is there for reading. but the feeling that vacation will start in a matter of hours time is exciting everyone. Junta are in major chillout mood today and yours truly is no exception.
Todays exams were [...]