Now the pressure levels are rising each and every day as the mid-term is nearing. The people who were chilling last week are engrossed into the preparations. The PlaceComm has its own pace which is least bothered about what is happening at the acad, cultural way of the PGP1. They know their 'business' or 'the Trend' which is carried for last decade or so. And one can not skip the PlaceCom guys, ultimately they are the people within campus who will be showing the snapshot of post-MBA for us to the outside world.

Above all there are presentations, group activities, games which are sucking significant amount of important time. It's like hell. Again one can not skip any of them at all 'cuz they all carry some credit (though it's mininal) of the curriculam. But everything happening here makes life funny in a way. I know these two years I am going to remember for my whole life.

Not that I have to remind myself - enough environmental parameteres and creatures are here to remid me that - every now and then - it is THE Time for preperation - I am going to learn some more things before the exam-papers ! Will gaining some funda's cleared the night before the paper which is going to be kind of funny. I can remember the days in my engineering when I used to prepare for the papers - (AppMech, Graphics, DSF, DSP, CC, CN, MO, etc) just the night before the paper and used to enjoy the course, I mean it. Just before my practical exams (MO, CPL, AC, DSF, CN, etc), I had done some programs and I really liked the way I was able to appreciate most of the subjects, logics to be applied, tools used, etc.

Let me get back to the books and xerox!!
Till the chill time come again,
:D

Exec's Life

I read lines below from the Harvard Mgmt Review presented by David Nadler .

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CEO of one of the !Top Notch! company saying "Every night I go to sleep asking myself 'Why people think, I have all the answers?' and every morning I wake up thinking 'Is today the day they figure out that I don't'
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Again, CEO of one of the top notch companies - he looks forward for weekends 'because I know I could open the front door in the morning without seeing the Wall Street Journal lying there and wouldn't have to explain to my wife and kids why the newspaper was saying all these terrible things about me.'
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Torna Trek last year - Old Pick

A little background : Prachandagadh or Torna. By conquiring this fort Shivaji Maharaj included the first fort into the Hindavi Swarajya account (?) . (Swarajya Toran)


Torna is close to Pune with Velhe goan a place of Taluka at its base. Velhe has a a court, Tehasil office, and I was surprised to see all these in such a small village. We had breakfast at Nasarapur - place 20km before Velhe. I am sure Sandy will never forget this breakfast for years to come or at least whenever he will visit Torna or Rajgadh.


I parked my bike at the Ashram Shala at Velhe, kept part of the luggage with the superitendent of the Ashram shala. Then Sandy and I started trekking in this route. Initially the way looked all dried as you can see in the pic and it was also dehydrating but we have taken water bottles along with so it wasn't the issue.





It is just at the start of the climbing up. We were accompanied by the group of 3-4 local people and they were easily climbing as it was a daily route for them. A young girl from that group guided us how to climb and later we never seen that group again even when we returned to the base.



Sandy tried some of his photography skills.
Again this time also I was not expecting such reasonble quality picture to be captured by mobile camera.

Budhala Machi a trailing arm of Torna and a opening for the way (sond) coming from Rajgadh.Earlier ppl used to run between Rajgadh and Torna with this way. and it was considered to be the smoothest one.

Zunzar machi. Real pleasure to look around from this place. Breath deep at this place and you will realize the relaxation and some kind of larger than life stuff ;-) yeah but that is true, some kind of strange feeling fills up our heart. It tells us there is lot things to live with. Move around.

View of the Rajgadh from Torna.

Someday I am planning to trace the whole route - Velhe-Torna-Budhala Machi-Suvela Machi-Rajgadh-Padmavati Machi-base village in one go. I have started counting days for that day. Lets see what is the count.

Study Hard and Change the World

One of the nice things being in IIM B is - as a part of Forum for Industry Interaction activities, we get to hear from eminent personalities. Last week we (PGP-1) heard about the Changing Paradigm from Kris Gopalakrishnan. Today we interacted with James Abraham about 'Building for future'. James Abraham is MD and Partner - Boston Consulting Group, India. In his speech, he talked about the experiences he had when he was working in North America, Europe and now in India with different private sector corporates and Public sector majors. He put across his idea in 10 things learnt, experience which he found the most important.



1. Find a passion. Passion will drive you to your way desired for happiness and success
2. Be less insecure and be more humble
3. Learn from failure, they teach better than success
4. Do not always run behind where the crowd is running, they might go wrong
5. There is always somebody is better off than you and somebody is worse off than you
6. Overestimate things possible for today and underestimate things possible for tomorrow
7. Sell yourself. Be salesman, saleswoman
8. [missed this item, I will update it sometime later whenever I will recollect ;-)]
9. People remember only three (3) things
10. Study hard and change the world.

Though it is true that James has delivered an impressive speech, his won experiences with people he mate, industries he worked, different geography he lived in marked the session entirely with his won identity but I find that moreover now people tend to deli ever things at academic institution, the way Steve Jobs had delivered at Harvard. Hats off to Steve Jobs. He really do stand at a very high level with his incredible battle with life, people stood against him, etc.

One thing I have found common with the exec. level of people at various organization - they are very humble. They listen to the almost everything that the any concerned individual (poor mortals - somebody like me) standing in front. Mostly because they are aware that the vision in their mind can be transferred/ made understood to the other peoples, subordinates only when they are clear with about idea/vision. -

I know that this is something globe stuff that I tried putting here. SO refraining myself from doing same, I am terminating this post with little note ;-)

With this forum, I know we will have opportunities to know about the great people from all over globe, interact with them, hear their experiences, their utmost values, passions, expectations from us i.e. the generation sitting next to them.

Ratra Thodi Songe Phar

Yes, that's what my situation is. I have limited time and there are so many things that I have to do, rather complete before I sleep. Definitely this kind of management education is testing people's capability to handle stress and to manage time.

I am realizing that my reading habits have changed over last 3 years since I have not been reading proper books for this period after leaving college. And while accessing Internet and computers, I got bad habit of skipping things all together or sometimes only looking for the key/interesting stuff. Soooo I am finding it painful to read the paragraphs lasting for 1-2 pages and conveying all global things.

Let me get out of this habit.

Insurance Premium

I have never thought about how a insurance premium is calculated for any person by any insurance company. All I was aware of this, is through my limited knowledge of the insurance policy I applied for couple of years back.

Now I am understanding how a statistical data collected over a period of time is essential for insurance companies to define their margin based on the probability of any given 'insurance policy holder' person's living.

By the way, thinking of the scale and structure of the insurance companies which provide insurance to the Aircraft, jets etc. What would be the insurance premium for such huge things and what would be the turn over of such insurance companies.