Thursday, June 30, 2011

Goldratt India

Today Mr. Ravi Gilani of Goldratt India, who has been the principal consultant in the Theory of Constraints area in India and popularizing Eliyahu Goldratt's ideas visitied the IIMI campus to address the MBA students. It was great to meet with him and have an extended conversation today. Unlike a very mundane what is ToC type of PPT he actually spoke about decisions to made in life and especially decisions that MBA students actually took etc. He later explained that he did not get into the usual organizational ToC specifics because, he only like to talk to actual decision makers and that he was aware that the people in the audience were only decision makers for themselves and not for any organizations. So, he would be more effective in articulating ToC thinking processes as applied to individualistic situations.

I guess this in general serves as a good guidance to those of us who go about doing these lecture sessions or corporate presentations. Unless speaking to the firm's real actionary body, it may actually work better to apply the concept / framework at the individual level to explain it and allude to the impact of the same at the organizational level. Food for thought...

Friday, June 24, 2011

Pranic healing really?

What do you do when there is an organizational conflict? When there are conflicting groups who propose different approaches for solving a problem or who have differences in priorities etc - Its time for some pranic healing! Really! One of the groups could engage a pranic healer who could "cure" the other group and make them see things your way! The "curing" can even happen remotely. Many management problems could be effectively addressed possibly! No Kidding! When there is a worker's strike, the management can hire pranic healers to "cure" the workers; When there is a hostile take over attempted on a firm, pranic healers could be hired to "cure" the other party and stop the acquisition. Its all good...
Except, what would happen if both the conflicting groups engage healers to "cure" the other? I guess the conflict would remain and the positions would reverse?

Coming Back?

I am thinking I would start posting more often now. Lots of interesting things happening in life and life around and many "Only in India..." , "Only in IIMI..." stories to share.