First POM Class- "Aaj ka Roti Aaj hi Kamana"

Well we the students of PGDIM batch of NITIE 2013 section B were getting ready for our "Communication and Negotiation skills" class when a professor entered and introduced himself as Dr. Prasad and said we would now be having a class on "Principles of Organization and Management". As we stood up to greet him he said "Please sit down" and he literally meant that!!!! We were there sitting down on the floor along with him near the lecture hall podium.

The memories of those child hood days at school flashed into my mind when we as young kids would be sitting near the teacher and learning some interesting arts and crafts. So here we were in the same way sitting around the professor and learning “Principles of Organization and Management”

                                                 Prof T. Prasad interacting with the students

And coming back to the class and the learning, as you can see the title of this post "Aaj ka Roti Aaj hi Kamana" (Earn today’s bread today only). This was sometime which was we learnt exclusively from this session and the professor demonstrated a few inventions and products which were simple inventions but still things of beauty and something which is out there to be sold.

                    

                                                       

The professor kept using the word "Mandi" (Market Place) and I found it a bit uneasy as he was asking us to go out there into the market place and sell or market our products and earn money while studying on the very first week of my two year management program.

But later he placed faith in our hearts by giving various examples and finally made us understand what we are really worth of. He put forth a question asking how many of us have resigned from a job which was paying us and when a lot of raised hands and as the discussion went we found that a lot of us were earning handsomely and he made us calculate what we would have earned these two years if we had not joined NITIE.

So our two years earnings along with the fees paid for the management program came to a really handsome money and he made a statement that we are currently that much worth and I think that really took us all by surprise because I'm sure none of us would have calculated it that way.

He further said that we should prove our worth by earning at least 1% of the money calculated above while studying, this actually made sense and has opened my mind to this concept of Entrepreneurship at this early stage itself. So here we go, earn that 1% and use it to buy your food (Aaj ka Roti Aaj hi Kamana).

I now really feel that I need to do something to get out there in the "Mandi" and prove my worth and I'm sure many of my fellow classmates would have also felt the same way and would now be thinking about a way to find a product and sell it out there in the world just as I am doing every single moment now.

And another mind blogging quote from the professor "Socho Becho, Becho Seekho, Seeko Socho"(Think Sell, Sell Learn, Learn Think) has really caught me and made my closed mind open to thinking.

As we were returning from our class back to our hostel room, I was really gripped with the professor's way of teaching and his approach to entrepreneurship that I asked my friend what is the background of this professor and why is he so interested in selling and entrepreneurship and my friend smilingly said that's why he is called "Dr. Mandi" (I had not enquired about him before this class).

So here I am ending this post looking forward to having more sessions with our professor while I drill down my brain and work out a way to find or produce a product what to sell and how to sell it in the market.

Happy Reading!!!

RAJA R S

PGDIM20 Section B