Exams Over..It's Party time

Finally, a week of long days & nights is over. I survived the pressure of term1. Today was the last exam “Operations Management” and the moment I finished writing I said to myself “that’s it” for another 3 months...no longer essay writing using various sizes of pens. Tonite is the celebration nite… the party starts at 7 pm in Bar Fusion, rootes building...all of us will be together for a last time then our guest Mannheimers will be off to their next destination, so is a few students shifting to distance learning mode.

I must write something about exams. Actually this week reminded me of my time during Engineering, similar pressure, the only difference is then I was single and lived in hostel so lots of group studies, night outs etc. This time though I didn't do any night-outs but pressure wasn't any less, we (Heronbankers) did do some group study to discuss on accounting problems (Sanjeeva the expert helped us understand the concept of “allocated” cost), Rizal the Organisational Behaviour "guru" helped us understand various theories; while Operations and Marketing were not too bad except a little too much "Value" in every topic in marketing. So here we go....just an economic assignment to submit next Thursday and then Term 1 is over. I haven't made my plans for three weeks of term break until 7th Jan next year...I guess I will think over it tomorrow after the party is over...

Term 1 Final Lecture

So..it’s the end of term1..not quite we have exams next week...yeah but the lectures are over and today we had our last lecture and it was on the mother of all discipline, "The Economics". It is true I started believing this...every other module is tied up with this one and it is the most powerful one...because there are lots of factors which are out of control of managers such as effect of oil price rise, exchange rate, inflation, interest rate, market confidence etc.... on your business. The job of managers is also to protect the business from these macro factors. The lecture today was a roundup of all that we learned in past 10 weeks from this module and some guidance on our assignments.

Attendance in the lecture was very high, not surprising considering the lecturer was Ben Knight, the most popular and my favourite lecturer in this course.....good luck for the exams to all fellow classmates!!!

Mannheimers...It was great to sit with you in the class...I will miss you all. Good luck to you for your next stop of MBA journey.

Presentation Skills Club (PSC) @WBS

I started this club to provide a platform for practicing the presentation skills, we all know how a good presentation should be, but when it comes to us presenting everything that we know goes for a toss…so why does it happen? Because, like every other skill, doing good presentation comes from practice, practice and more practice!!!

We had our first meeting last Friday, an icebreaker session, only 10 people made to the meeting but those who were there appreciated it. Our next meeting is on first Friday of next term i.e. 11th Jan 08.

EQ vs IQ

I am back after a short break, got back the inspiration guess from where? Yes Nicolas Bates' session on Emotional Intelligence....probably the best session I have attended so far in my MBA. Remember the most important thing, EQ= 2 * IQ by Daniel Goleman. You will get a job for your IQ but you will be promoted for your EQ. So, work on your EQ.