That’s the way I like it

I have decided to make my hands dirty… opened an ICICI Direct account. My portfolio will contain shares of varied nature. 30% of the investment will be on shares which I will hold for a long time. 20% will be of shares which I will hold for say less than a year and my 50% go to my daily trading. Even in this 50% will be of IT sector and rest 50% in other sectors. Also decided not to get into margin and margin plus trading at least for next 6 months.

Study groups started gearing up. Finance, Marketing and Operations started their first meetings in a very grand manner. Mafoi conducted the psychometric test and now moving to the next level of individual counseling. Great Lakes Consulting Group (GLCG) have got two projects one from US and another from India.

ITC InfoTech was here last week for the pre-placement talk. Deloitte was also here some time back. We will be having more companies coming to the institute in next two months. Both the people are very happy with our profiles. GM – Strategy and GM- HR was here. They invited us to their campus.

Busy in making my CV a meaningful and a well structured one. We would have done many things in our career which we ourselves might have not noticed. I initially started writing all the points that came to my mind. Noted down all the events I participated, wrote all the activities I was involved in my corporate career. Sequenced it and started ranking it. Sat with top experienced people in the institute and fine tuned it. THAT’S ALL I DID for my CV. It took nearly three days to finish it up. But still, not convinced completely.

Coming to our discussion on Professor’s, starting with an Indian Prof who teaches in other institutes other than IIM’s. They are very knowledgeable but most of the times they are more conventional in teaching. They have a set of standard approach in which they will take us. They would have visited to many companies as consultants. More than 2/3 third of time they share their experience in the class. At the same time when IIM prof are met they are knowledgeable, arrogant and really worth to bear the stress. Some times it is very hard to digest the amount of knowledge they leave in the two hours. We also feel humiliated by the quality of knowledge these professor shed. These people give us more and expect more from us. When we don’t meet the expectations we are really on the furnace.

Indian born Foreign Profs are really cool. They won’t fight that hard against you. There time is very costly. 10 Classes, 2 Assignments, 2 Quizzes and a final exam that all it’s about. Purely Foreign Profs are very soft in nature. They start things from very basic’s. They appreciate us for each and everything …

These are purely my perception about prof’s…But my Vote goes for IIM Profs

I had a big time last weekend. Spent some time with my MOM, went with her for shopping. Thought of helping her and entered the kitchen. Blemished the whole place within no time in front of her. Actually we are abt to have some Friend chicken, I tried my managerial stuff and screwed it completely (just added all the things that was available in the kitchen). But still my brother and my niece consoled me saying it was very tasty. But I know how it tasted…

Back to college on Monday. There is a famous saying “Love your job and you will never have to work a day in your life”.. It makes more sense now.

There are couple of cases need to be prepared for Optimization Models by Mr. Ravichandran a prof from IIM A. There is lot of difference between the professors from IIM’s, Indian Professors from other Indian Institutes and Indian Professors from Foreign Institutes and Foreign Profs. Of course we had prof’s from all these category.

Will be writing about these professors in detail in my next blog.

Term IV started … two cases to start with. Manzana Insurance and Coke vs. Pepsi. After spending hours and hours on these cases, getting aligned to analyzing cases and identifying problems.

Earlier, I was struggling to identify the areas that we need to look upon as a consultant or a solution provider. Some times most of the statements made in the case boast themselves as problems. If the case was given as a part of Optimization Technique course then I use to look in that perspective. Strategic Management a different perspective… Recently had a very bad experience of analyzing the case in a single perspective.

How to handle a case…

a. Break the cases at Macro Level.
b. Under each identified areas frame the basic Questions.
c. At this point don’t try to find answers for all the problems.
d. Check for the root cause and links of each issue.
e. Strike out the problems which have spawn out of other problems.
f. Come out with the possible solutions with the substantial facts to support our recommendations.

A well known consulting company suggest as follows…

a. Break a complex problem into its component parts
b. Apply business judgment to identify value
c. Generate a creative range of solutions to a problem’s component parts
d. Identify the most likely/attractive solutions through logical reasoning
e. Generate thoughtful questions and ask for clarification of case data, as necessary
f. Translate analysis into actionable recommendations
g. Effectively communicate solutions in a concise and persuasive manner

Let me try in my way for next couple of cases.

Update:
Placement committee is in full swing. Committee has people from different age and experience group. We kick started many activities this week. Photos shoot for placement brochure.
Placement rules, Dream companies, Tier 1, Tier 2 Companies were discussed.
Career Counseling Team is landing here next week to help students in identifying the right Major and Minor subjects.They will also conduct mock interviews at later stage.
Coordinate with IT department to build new software for recording all data about companies, contact details etc.

He fought and died for us. It’s time to raise our voice to the extent it reaches and warns the brutal Pakistan Army who did the cruel things against Lt. Saurabh Kalia of the 4th JAT Regiment of the Indian Army during the Kargil war.

Lt Saurabh Kalia was the first officer to signal about the intruders. He was captured along with the five officers at the LOC and was tortured for more than 3 weeks before his body was handed over to India.

He was just 22 of age and his eyes are punctured, bones are broken, other organs were chopped off. Imagine how his parents would have felt about a brave soldier who went to serve the nation and returned with none of his parts left…

Pakistan humiliates India with his terrorist act in so many ways and now the world knows it well. They are not ethical and don’t know the basic rules… simply put they are still barbarians…

Sacrificing for the nation is a good thing. The sacrifice is for a common cause and that common cause is enjoyed by all others like you and me.
Yes they fought and died for us…To save us. It’s time to show our deep gratitude to them.

Please sign the petition of Lt. Saurabh Kalia’s father. By signing we will convey that there are billions of Saurabh Kalia in India to fight against Pakistan and their barbaric actions…

Please spread this to as many people as possible in as many ways you can…

Links:
Online Petition by Lt. Saurabh Kalia’s father
Geocities Page on Lt. Saurabh Kalia
Rediff Article on Lt. Saurabh Kalia
Dilip D’Souza’s Post

(via : Bharani)