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When you loose direction, when compass stops working...

Dhrubojyoti Sinha Filed Under:

It's been a long recess since I last posted on this blog. Things have changed a lot. My profession has too. On one fine morning this duffer felt how it feels like to be within the ±1σ limits of a normal curve. Getting a bit weird! Well this is the way my brain is functioning now after making a "revolutionary" decision of going back to school and get an MBA degree and get bombarded with loads of high funda stuffs like Statistical measures, Discrete analysis (Where you can't be at your discretion), Factors, Determinants, Annova (I thought this was a name of some pretty lady when I first came across it). So I can't help this too much!

 

So, my tendency to give up this central tendency in normal variate made me look towards the greener pastures of extremity and get out of ±3σ and prompted to opt for an MBA degree. MBA is a fancy word. It holds lot of power in it. When in any group or gathering, be it in any atmosphere, an MBA speaks, the whole group listens. This shows MBAs command authority also. Statistics show that 70% of people want to marry off their girls with MBAs. This makes sense as customers matter in the marry-market than end consumers (Well you should not forget I'm studying marketing). So definitely MBAs have lot of face value. All these factor in OPPORTUNITY or the lower-left hand side of our SWOT matrix.

 

I can very well see (sometimes in my dream too) that an ugly looking nasty fellow called RECESSION is enjoying free lunch by sitting in my THREAT space. Well I wouldn't have had many qualms regarding that. Normally I like to move with everybody (Well I'm a social guy yaar! I like GUESTS coming to my house.). But when I see that this particular fellow in interfering with my Annual Cash Flow, I get perturbed. Already my Cash and Bank Balances are in negative (!!!). The ‘Sources of Fund’ column in my Balance Sheet shows a hefty amount under Secured Loans. I'm totally surving on Debts. This is not the time to finance some un-cool guy I never knew, that too from my so favorite Reserves and Surpluses. After all, MONEY is much dearer to me than HONEY. Because my logical mind says that latter follows the former. So I don't like HIM. But again, I don't want to roll up my sleeves and have a one-to-one with him too. I've read that Opportunity and Threats are there in the system and these can't be changed. So all I can do is spare this guy and watch him play nasty games with my Cash Flow.

 

Then come some grey areas like Strength and Weakness. They are so 'coz the book I read SWOT matrix from didn't teach me how to classify my Strengths and Weaknesses into the upper two quadrants of this matrix. Because of this I suffered so much in interviews. So my SWOT is "OKAYISH" and doesn't look attractive from any angle. But I'm HOPEFUL. When I was a kid, my MOM used to narrate me stories of people who conquered all adversaries and made it big. People who defied all statistics. People who gave a shit to things like PROBABILITY, LAWS, RULES, FRAMEWORKS and fought against them to prove that these are CRAP. People who are MAD. People who have shown that they are the only ones who define the WORLD. People who wrote HISTORY. How can I forget them? They are the heroes of the PAST. They have shown how to forget about OPPORTUNITIES and THREATS. I admire them. I love them, respect them. For that reason I'm HOPEFUL. You know MBAs are GOOD as long as economy moves ahead and lots of good things happen all around. But when the going gets tough, recollect the bed-time stories by your MOM. They can save you and give you a direction. 

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