The Three Buddhist Priests.........

                                                      Three Monks is a Chinese animated short film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio.It is also referred to as The Three Buddhist Priests.The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb" one monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load,but  add a third and no one will want to fetch water.

                                   The story is very simple.First Monk went to the temple and found no water.He hauled two buckets of water.Another monk entered into the temple and had same situation no water to drink.So both shared their work to bring water.Now the arrival of third monk prompts everyone to expect that some one will take the responsibility but no one want to fetches water even though they are thirsty.Then the three monks come up with a common problem of fire accident in the temple.The three monks united together and solved the problem.

The film teaches a good management lessons.The important lessons I have figured out are

1) Team Work:
                         As we have seen in the film when the temple was in fire the three monks united together and put off the fire very easily. What if they have done it individually?.May be it will take more time time to put out the fire or the temple might have destroyed.But they worked together and saved the temple from devastating fire and they proved that "Unity is strength". Same condition applies every where especially in this Business World. The manager has to make the employees work in a team rather than individual efforts.Individuality hinders the company growth but team work can do wonders.As it was already demonstrated in Tower Building skit in the class.

2) Job Distribution:
                                   The same situation can be compared to any organisation and examine the technical lesson from that. Now a days in many organisations even though there are plenty of resources, but the  managers are failed at some stage to utilize all the resources to produce an end result efficiently.Like the three monks as resources and bringing water to the temple is the end result they divided their work and so they were successful in putting off the fire. So it is the responsibility of the Manager to utilize the resources provided to him optimally.

3) Innovation:
                          As it was clearly showed the innovative plan they have adopted in bringing the water up the hill.There are two ways to bring water as a team. One is three monks stand a regular distances away and shifting their loads one another to bring water or the second one is the pulley method.Both are team work but the first one makes the monks tired to the work for a long time and it takes long time to put out the fire.The second one easy and can complete in a less time. A manager should also have innovative approach to complete the task in a less time with more efficiency.

4) Crisis Management:
                                             In the movie the three monks works together and to put off the fire.That was an emergency situation. In those situations the workers might loose their coolness, calm and temper.It is the same situation in any organisation but it is the responsibility of the Manager to keep a calm composure no matter what ever the situation is and he takes the situation in control like we have seen how M.S.Dhoni led the team during the Champions Trophy 2013 finals against the England and won the series.

                                                            A manager should be able to lead the team successfully to reach the targets.He first creates a good relations with all the teammates and with in the workers and  utilize them increase the productivity.The Manager must ensure that the workers are not dependent on the emergency situations to work as a team, but to work as a team right from the beginning to produce good results to the company.

SETTING SMART GOALS

SETTING SMART GOALS..........

                                        It is very important to have goals in every one's life. Life without any goal is meaningless.A goal means the desired results a person wants to achieve. It involves committing time and effort in asking yourself key issues of life.

                                        Setting the goals is not an easy task.Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.It is starting a journey with the end in mind, without Goals life becomes meaningless.If anyone setting a personal goal, the first step is to consider what you want to achieve in a lifetime. Setting lifetime goals gives the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of decision making.

ANY GOAL SET SHOULD BE S.M.A.R.T.....so what is a SMART GOAL?

SMART is the acronym for 

S-Specific

M-Measurable

A-Attainable

R-Realistic

T-Time Bound

Specific:

               Goal should be specific. It is the need for a specific goal over and against  a more general one.This means a goal is clear and unambiguous:without vagaries and platitudes.Drill further down to identify more specific goals, revisiting your assessment and exploration.

For example....I want a job when I graduate is too general.But I want a job in a top five automotive industries and a salary of $1000 is too specific.

Measurable:

              Goal should be measurable.It is important to identify clear objectives so one can measure the progress towards the goals,the goal that is set should be quantified in terms of  numbers so that it is known when reached it.

For example I will attend campus recruiting events sponsored by top five automotive industries,is measurable as it is known that the goal is reached by attending top five events. 

ATTAINABLE:

              Goal should be attainable.Are your goals reasonable? Are you willing and able to accomplish your goals?It is important to address these questions when goal setting so you don't set yourself up for failure.

For instance one cannot set goals for working in a automotive industry if there is no automotive industry in your country or location.

Realistic/ Relevant:

            Goal should be related to the direction you want your career to take.It is very important that the short-term goals and long-term goals are in sync.For realistic you cannot set a goal to be a Superman or an Iron-man.This is not a realistic goal.

Time Bound:

            Goal should be timely.Setting deadlines for achievement of goals keeps you on track.What do you want to achieve and when do you want to achieve it?Seeing the finish line,so to speak, will motivate you to work towards completion of the goals.

For example I want to be the CEO of an XYZ company in 10 years is a timely or a time bound go as it gives   you the impetus to work hard to achieve it.

These smart goals are explained well by Pygmalion effect. The goal set by the Sculptor and how he achieved it explains the above terms. 

And the observation I have studied from the Tower building task was

Goal set,Goal achieved, potential and history.It is very important to aware of the importance of these terms and their order.

1) The Goal set helps us to realize our potential.

2) Our potential makes us to achieve the goal.As potential keeps on changing the goals achieved lies always below our potential.

3) The goal achieved has to be more than the the Historical goal achieved.

                    

Management at peaks.....

                                        Again a good demonstration on Management but now in a different dimension.The difference between Old school of management and Modern management.When prof.Mandy asked about the capacity of building the blocks everyone guessed their own figure and this tells us not only the strength of us but also the goal setting of each and everyone.From the first step it teaches us everyone should be clear while setting their goals and under-promise and over-deliver rather than over-promise and under-deliver.

                                                             

Case 1:

Open Eyed Person:

                               In our opinion open eyed person will defenitely be having an advantage over closed eyed person.But in this Business world it is totally different.It was practically proven.Prof.Mandy had given some instructions and asked to build a tower. The first student built the tower with 22 blocks. and exceeded his own goal set.
                                                     

Case 2:
Closed Eyed Person:
                                Now it was the turn of close eyed person with an instructor and a superior head. Here closed eyed person is the Worker, instructor is the Manager and the superior head is the CEO. The task was started and ended up with 27 blocks.How and why? It happened because of some invisible driving force behind the task which is nothing but the Modern Management.It's simple but great.

                                       

                                Prof.Mandy explained the difference between the two concepts and explained the responsibilities taken by the individual in Case 1 and the responsibility of the Management in Case 2.He explained the two cases based on various parameters.They are

                                                         

         
                                              Hence Modern Management helps not only in converting the weaknesses into strengths but also for the growth of the company.                              
                                                           


                                                                

Best Teaching I ever Had...........
                                       We all know that the first impression is the best impression but after I attended proff. mandy class I felt that not only the first impression but also the first experience is also the best experience. Yes, I really enjoyed my first experience and for a moment I thought that if I wouldnot have joined in NITIE, I might have really lost something in my life. The moment Mandy Sir started the class and the way he transformed the whole class into different environment really made to think us like electrons gaining energy and jumps from lower orbit to higher orbits. His teachings made us boosting our ideas to think in a different way.

                                                                        He discussed about the Newton cradle and demonstrated with pendulums dragging out and hitting the other pendulums at rest.I expected he will ask any technical mechanism behind that and I was brushing up my momentum and energy concepts. But I have learned alot from each demonstration and the importance of its each case in real life situation.

Case 1: One pendulum hitting the  four pendulums at rest.

                            
                                                             I considered five pendulums in one team. One pendulum which is hitting the four pendulums at rest. But only one pendulum out of the four started moving. I felt that the impact created by one pendulum makes only one pendulum to come out of the situation.
             



Case 2: Two pendulums hitting the three pendulums at rest

                                                   Two pendulums are hitting the other three and two pendulums responded and moving. Means because of increase in impact two pendulums are coming out of the situation.

Case 3: Three pendulums hitting the two pendulums at rest

                                                    Three pendulums hitting three are responding means all the pendulums are coming out of the situation.
                                                                       I considered situation as a real life problem and as we work constructively together and helps each other to we can come out of any situation.