The truth is very simple – bitching is therapeutic, stress relieving, entertaining and relaxing. It’s everything which one can want from a conversation at times (not always definitely), when you want to lighten your mood and not really rack your brains and think. The reason why people view bitching in such a negative light is simply cause they don’t understand the therapeutic value of bitching, either cause they’ve never experienced it or cause guilt gets the better of them and prevents them from experiencing it. If people can simply take bitching for what it is – something frivolous and entertaining, and not something which you believe in seriously, or care about, or some truth of this world, they would be able to rid themselves of any guilt feeling associated, and truly enjoy its benefits!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Recognizing Globe
I know this is getting too much on the MBA front, but I can’t help it - I am doing an MBA. Hence, you would have to deal with some more MBA articles over the next 1 year.
We all know, or think, that MBA’s are really good at ‘Globing’. Now, while I can say those capabilities are slowly improving (not sure if MBA is the reason – maybe I was anyways going to get at it) I have learnt another thing – ‘recognizing globe’. While earlier, some speaker might have seemed impressive simply cause of his smoothness, I am now able to look beyond the smoothness into the content of what he’s talking and recognize whether it’s ‘globe’ or not.
P.S.: I am not sure if this is a great thing. The pressure to label anything as globe is so high, that everything anyone says is by default globe. Only if the speaker says something really impressive is he labeled as non-globe. Discounting everyone’s views for globe is probably not that good a thing.
P.P.S. : If you think this is globe, that is ok. Like I said, I am getting better at it!
Credits : This article’s foundations were laid during a conversation with friends, who I shall call ‘AB’.
We all know, or think, that MBA’s are really good at ‘Globing’. Now, while I can say those capabilities are slowly improving (not sure if MBA is the reason – maybe I was anyways going to get at it) I have learnt another thing – ‘recognizing globe’. While earlier, some speaker might have seemed impressive simply cause of his smoothness, I am now able to look beyond the smoothness into the content of what he’s talking and recognize whether it’s ‘globe’ or not.
P.S.: I am not sure if this is a great thing. The pressure to label anything as globe is so high, that everything anyone says is by default globe. Only if the speaker says something really impressive is he labeled as non-globe. Discounting everyone’s views for globe is probably not that good a thing.
P.P.S. : If you think this is globe, that is ok. Like I said, I am getting better at it!
Credits : This article’s foundations were laid during a conversation with friends, who I shall call ‘AB’.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Something I didn’t expect an MBA would teach me..
Learning to not be punctual
Working in teams here and calling team meetings every now and then has actually taught me the lesson of what everyone refers to as ‘IST’ very well… Much better than whatever I had learnt about it all my life. It’s possibly because one doesn’t expect it to be like that here. For a one hour meeting, there is no way that every team member would be present within 10 minutes of the official meeting start. Why does this happen? The lack of time makes people want to optimize their time utilization. Since everyone has learnt, like me, the prevalence of IST, they try to be the smart one, by coming late, thereby saving their time. It’s like a game theory – everyone wants to be the last one to reach to minimize their time wastage. What happens because of this? First you come 2 minutes late, but someone else came 3 minutes late. Next time you come 4 minutes late and the cycle continues, and very soon, IST comes into play. Sadly enough, I too have started playing this game theory, though I am not so good at it - even after all my calculations, I am rarely the last one!
Or maybe it’s cause I dislike the last one’s so much that I don’t want to be one myself!
Working in teams here and calling team meetings every now and then has actually taught me the lesson of what everyone refers to as ‘IST’ very well… Much better than whatever I had learnt about it all my life. It’s possibly because one doesn’t expect it to be like that here. For a one hour meeting, there is no way that every team member would be present within 10 minutes of the official meeting start. Why does this happen? The lack of time makes people want to optimize their time utilization. Since everyone has learnt, like me, the prevalence of IST, they try to be the smart one, by coming late, thereby saving their time. It’s like a game theory – everyone wants to be the last one to reach to minimize their time wastage. What happens because of this? First you come 2 minutes late, but someone else came 3 minutes late. Next time you come 4 minutes late and the cycle continues, and very soon, IST comes into play. Sadly enough, I too have started playing this game theory, though I am not so good at it - even after all my calculations, I am rarely the last one!
Or maybe it’s cause I dislike the last one’s so much that I don’t want to be one myself!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Redbull shoos away sleep??
A friend of mine thought that drinking some Red bull would help him stay awake and do some studying. Sadly enough the 3 times he did drink one, he slept off within 30 minutes. Here’s why I believe it happened. The reason why someone is awake (when sleepy) is cause of some strong determination to not sleep. When you drink a Red bull, you think that that determination is no longer needed as the Red bull will make you non-sleepy. However, a Red bull is only so much powerful. So it’s only able to work for those 30 minutes, after which nothing is working to keep you awake – neither the Red bull, nor your determination.. and hence the outcome! So next time you have one, I’d suggest don’t trust it, still try to stay awake using your willpower and then maybe the Red bull (??) will keep you awake!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Pets – is it fair?
We all love animals, at least that’s what most people claim. More so, people who love animals also like to keep them as pets. I too once kept a pet – a rabbit. I found it really cute and decided to give it a shot. However, after some time I realized that I was unable to keep the rabbit happy. Probably the rabbit just missed other rabbits. Or maybe it was just me. Overall, I realize that as much as I like animals, it’s just not fair to keep them as pets, that too alone. It’s about as bad as keeping them in a cage. Some animals, specially dogs seem to do fine with human attentions, they can probably related to them and interact them. But animals lower in the food chain, with lesser developed senses, like rabbits, fishes, turtles, birds, are not able to connect. You may be taking the best care possible, but you are a human at the end of the day!
Having Said That
When we talk, we like to talk such that new sentence is related to the previous sentence is some way. People use a variety of phrases for the same. When I started working, I realized the culture was to use ‘so’. Every sentence started with ‘so’ and hence (and I use another such word) could be linked to the previous one. It was a smart way to start a sentence. Now as I have joined college (specifically, a B-school), I’ve come across another more interesting phrase – ‘having said that’. What is ‘that’, whether ‘that’ is related, whether it was required to say ‘that’ to be able to say the next sentence, are all irrelevant questions. Interestingly, it’s my communications professor who first introduced me to this phrase. Maybe it’s the way to go in the managerial word. When unable to connect, use ‘having said that’.
Having said all of this, I am wondering whether to and how to incorporate this into my conversations!
Having said all of this, I am wondering whether to and how to incorporate this into my conversations!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
2 year MBA over 1 year MBA
I recently joined a 2 year MBA program, and here I realized one important advantage of a 2 year MBA over a 1 year MBA. This is something which had not occurred to me when I was making the decision for a 2 year MBA vs. a 1 year MBA. But, now that I realize this, I am glad I did not take up a 1 year MBA.
The advantage is this - seniors and juniors. In a 2 year program you get to interact with the senior batch and learn from them. In your second year, you get to interact with your junior batch and pass on your learnings. This not only helps your build a much larger network ( 3 times ), learn from that many more people, but most importantly, helps to build a unique culture for that institute, which can be carried on batch after batch.
The advantage is this - seniors and juniors. In a 2 year program you get to interact with the senior batch and learn from them. In your second year, you get to interact with your junior batch and pass on your learnings. This not only helps your build a much larger network ( 3 times ), learn from that many more people, but most importantly, helps to build a unique culture for that institute, which can be carried on batch after batch.
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