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Team TSG formed

Phew,
After a whole dilly-dallying that went on for 4 weeks, we finally got the Junie TSG members. I don't really know the reason why people applied in such low numbers for TSG. First only 7 people sent in their nominations, considering that we needed 5 people !!! On top of that, only one of them had put TSG as the first preference. So we ended up with only two shortlisted people.

Then we were forced to kick off the second round - this was possibly (in my opinion) was the first time that TSG had to go in for the second round of inviting nominations. We were so pissed off that we actually contemplated the idea of barging into the junie-classes and talk to them regarding this. But as fate would have it, this idea didn't materialize. We just sent across a mail reiterating what we do, what we plan to do and stuff like that. Inspite of this, we got only 4 nominations. Things had turned really hard for us :-(

But thankfully, the people this time were decent enough to be inducted. But still we couldn't fill our quota of 5. We chose 4 junies. And we are outsourcing one !!! There's this guy - Safirulla - who desperately wanted to work with TSG but had out in Treasury as his first preference. Then he talked to Treasury; and thanx to the guys (Piyush Bisani and Bhaumik Bhatia), they allowed him to work with TSG.

So here are the new TSG members:
Aashish Agarwal
Bharath S
Lakshmeesh K
Madhumita
Safirulla

But I really don't know why the junie batch has an extreme impression about us!! The contrasting feedback I got was that either we don't do any substantial work or that we involve too much work!! They'll soon know the TRUTH !!! :-)

But everything said and done, from the quality of people that we have inducted makes me believe that this time it'll be 4 in a row - Best Academic Fora Award, I mean ;-)

And a special mention to a Tanuj Saluja, who is now with PubCom; but desperately wanted to join TSG. After his selection, he wrote a very senti mail, which I'll possibly archive for my life.

posted by Abhishek Singh @ 6:50 AM 4 comments

Group Work is Deadly !!!

Now I get the real dread of Group work. In the first year, I had a group of 9 people, & we knew that we had to stay together for one whole year. So we cooperated, fought, and made up!! This group really gave me the freedom and room to do things. But now that we have been dis-associated and I'm pitted with a different group for every course, I find it hard to fit in and work comfortably. I guess I need some time to adjust to this new format.

posted by Abhishek Singh @ 9:58 AM 2 comments

Nice Image

I got this image from Ruby's Blog.

posted by Abhishek Singh @ 10:52 AM 3 comments

What doesn't work in Management ...

Well, it takes some guts to accept defeat. And I have it. Both guts and defeat, I mean. Our Team Bakar came last in Episode. All our plans went down the drain. But it did teach me an important lesson. It taught me what DOES NOT work in Management. We had everything – the best in every area, or atleast someone who could compete with the best. And yes, we had the drive to win the Episode. But what we didn’t have was – I don’t know what to call it, so let me put it up as “People Orientation / People Skills / People Familiarity” !!!

I still remember that the very first day when we induted the junies, we started out by blurting out the events for the next day and asking the junies to decide among themselves about who would go for the events. And all this without introducing ourselves to them or asking for their names!!

So, in the end, we ended up not being able to make every junie perform to his/her best. And on top of that, there was no fun. The whole process then became a drag. So much so that they couldn’t even perform the Theme Song at the Valedictory function.

At the same function, Shiv Ramdas, whose Team RDX came 2nd, said, “We tried to make sure we let the junies do what they enjoy doing most not what they have done most.” I completely agree with the guy on this, though I literally hate him.

Episode is meant for FUN… and for junies to enjoy.

No wonder we lost. But we gained something. As they say, every cloud has a silver lining.

posted by Abhishek Singh @ 7:33 AM 3 comments