Thursday, 20 June 2013

Evolution from Craftsmanship to Orgnisation: Tower Building Exercise

Two years MBA journey began with the very first lecture with Dr. Prasad who is also known as Dr. Mundi. In the First Lecture I got the hint that he is a different kind of Professor, who intrigues his students to think beyond the bookish knowledge and try to look things in a practical perspective. He asked us to write a blog about the learning's in the classroom like our seniors did. I was very much engrossed with the idea, as I have always wanted to write a blog but due to my laziness or procrastination habit I always missed the golden opportunity. Finally, due to the external force applied by Dr. Mundi, my voyage to the blogging world has started.

I was eagerly waiting for the second session.As expected it was one of its kind session. Today, Dr. Mundi has come with a new teaching tool. He gave the small cube to us, while he was explaining the task. The task was to arrange the cubes as a building block for creating a tower. Most amazing part of the exercise was to bid for making the tower in front of the whole batch of aspiring COOs. After three rounds of bidding the deal was settled for 500 Rs. Lesson Learnt: You have to take the risk to gain something. This showed the appetite for risk is necessary in this competitive environment.

Dr. Mundi Explaining the Tower Building exercise
The task of building the tower started. The builder could make the tower of 12 blocks. After poking by Prof. he could again add 4 pieces to that tower. This showed the content nature of the person. Actually this is true for every person. Due to the conservatism we doesn't expose ourselves to dangerous and risky positions. This restricts our best to come out.

Next part was to learn about the difference between the Craftsmanship and the organization. The craftsmanship like the tower building exercise don't require management as it is based on once skills.

Can we have 2000 people for making single tower?
This question really got my basics cleared. In the organization there should be work for everybody and it should be Meaningful. 
The Job satisfaction is high in case of Craftsmanship wherein in an organization level it varies.

The clear difference:
Craftsmanship: No organization, no Management
Organization: Objectives, performance and Results






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