WBS gets the flavour of Diwali

Cohorts celebrated the diwali in style, with a flavour of diwali decoration, lighting, bolly music & dance, and indian food with gulab jamun yummmmmmy. Deepak made some of the best samosas you would get in UK. Great response from the class imagine 50+ people from all over the world celebrating the festival of lights...true diversity. Here are few pics from night ...

Diwali Decoration in the coffee area

Traditional Indians gearing up for the evening, notice Jake's lungi :)

Emerald doing difficult Yoga position

Chris enacting for a movie

One of the winning teams of Dumb-Charades competition

Cadbury World

Today I visited the cadbury world attraction, Bournville just outside Birmingham. It is the third most visited attraction in the midlands area. I am no fan of chocolates but this was actually part of our operations management project. Our syndicate groups aim is to study cadbury world operations, produce a report, and may be suggest some improvements.....

Cadbury world is a gr8 day out and we too enjoyed it...I am glad we choose cadburys world. Not only we developed very good understanding of this service operation, but also had fun doing so. My job for most of the day was to shoot video which I did for the first time and after looking at the video I am happy with my performance :). So here I am learned to become a cameraman....a very handy skills to have :). Soon I will upload some clips from my video and some pictures too!

Manager vs Leader, who do you want?

At some stage of your MBA, you need to know about the real difference between these two roles. Today it was our chance to answer the question: what difference does leaders and managers make in an organisation? and who is more important a manager or a leader?

While a manager copes well with the complexity, a leader copes well with the change. A leader is a visionary while a manager is more concerned about short term planning and getting things done. A successful organisation need both. A leader will show you the direction and a manager will help you to get there in a planned and effective way.

In today’s lecture I particularly like watching Jack Welch's interview...when he said, GE does reverse mentoring i.e. a subordinate (young blood) mentors his boss (the senior manager). I can't think of any other organisation doing this.....so that is how JW did things differently and helped GE remain successful for a long time and it still is successful?

This is where I live...

Warwick campus is probably the most beautiful one among all other univ. campuses throughout the UK. I think so...have a look

A walk to the central campus, it's safe isn't it?

Lake view enjoyed by heronbank residents too...

Heronbank Apartments at night

Heronbank Apartments in rare sunshine

Moving on....

The midterm exams are over, in fact the last exam was on Thursday and they served their purpose. We are more informed about the content of various modules, we can now calculate RONA & ROE, so do we know what is value proposition and blue ocean strategy, we now know the effect of frosts in Brazil and large harvest of tea in Assam on coffee bean prices, also we appreciate the "strategic hell" situation for a manager.

Clearly, we now understand a lot of things and can also appreciate the importance and complexity in managing the operations capacity. All sound very technical, so it did to me few weeks ago. But if you want to learn them in an interesting manner come to WBS!

I am not doing any marketing here, just that I am impressed with the level of experience, knowledge and the teaching methodology here. With one or two exceptions attending classes is fun. So is it likely in next two terms. Our Friday was dedicated in knowing about the electives available in next two terms i.e. spring and summer term.

The faculty were given 15 mins slot to pitch in themselves & about their modules. We have choose 2 electives out of 5 in spring term and 4 out of don't know the exact numbers but definitely more than 20 odd electives, with an opportunity to study in Mannheim Germany.

So it is a difficult choice for me as I am interested in more than 6 electives; however, I can't take more than 6. So it's kind of 'Strategic Hell' for me & I am sure for other cohorts too.

I would like to forget that for a day or two and enjoy the rest of the weekend. This has been a great day of football in premiership and the two top sides displayed the highest quality on the pitch. Good night and hope I see sunshine when I open the curtains tomorrow morning.....