Craftsmanship to Modern Management

  

Now we are used to the surprises given by the Dr.Mandi sir, today he bought building blocks and asked us to build a single cube tower. The challenge lies in building the tower as high as possible. The tower should be built in two different ways   

 1) Open eyed and alone

 2)  Blind folded and guided by some one

Can you guess in which case a high tower can be built?

 In both the cases a high tower can be built. In fact, as proved by mandi sir, in blind folded way a high tower can be built. The first case is a craftsmanship where all the roles have to be managed by individual whereas the second case is modern management in which work is divided and performed by the individuals as directed by the managers.

These two cases are demonstrated by the Mandi sir in a very practical way by using the building blocks

Open eyed and alone:

A person from the class was asked to come and build the tower .He has done that by using 22 blocks.

Blind folded and guided by some one

Three people are called from the class and asked them to play the role of CEO, Manger and a worker. The worker was blindfolded. Now the manager has to direct the worker in placing the blocks to build the tower.finally the tower was built with 27 blocks which is more than the blocks used by the open eyed worker.

Learning from this session:

Productivity and quality of the deliverables have a great difference when performed individually and performed in an organized system. Here, when individual is performing he has to decide and perform. Where in organized system or in modern management everyone will have their domain to perform and the manager will decide what to do and the worker can follow the instruction which leads to high productivity.

Examples are as follows:

1) A tailor switching the shirts and textile industry manufacturing the shirts in a classified and organized way.

2) A cobbler making shoe and Shoe Company manufacturing the shoes.

Conclusion:

When we work in an organized system with better role clarity, better productivity and quality can be yielded in a less time.

EARNING WHILE LEARNING

Today I experienced a different way of teaching by Dr T Prasad, popularly known as Dr Mandi. He entered the classroom and sat on the floor at the Dias. Everyone including me astonished. But in a while he asked all of us to join him. After that he started throwing stress balls and balancing birds at us. Then he took out a newton’s cradle with five balls hanging to that and demonstrated it. He went on explaining the ways of earning while learning in a very interactive way.

                The class was very interactive with all type of questions asked by us. We started inquiring about the mandi and its execution. Mandi  is an event at NITIE where the students go on to the streets of Mumbai and sell the toys  where the students can apply principles of stats, marketing and managerial economics.

I really loved the ways he explained earn while learning. One among them is to go home on vacation on some company’s expenses. This can be done by implementing the mandi’s concept for a reputed company’s product at our home town. With this we can earn, learn and at the same time enjoy the vacation at our home town .