A long winding day finally comes to a pause. Student life rocks ~ Anurag Unplugged !!

For the past 6 months, on umpteen occasions, I have made my mind to chronicle a day in this PGPX journey at IIMA. But so frenzied gets the pace of events during the day that by the time it ends, you are almost dead :) . Happiness zooms to infinity the moment you get into bed

Even today, I have not yet touched my favorite part of the house i.e. the bed. The reason is that I am baby sitting with Ms. Dhwani Singal as Sonia applies Mehendi for tomorrow (feeling special). It should be turn out to be special.

So the day (10th Oct'14) started at 6 AM. Slave of the electronics life, you check the whatsapp status and the emails . Even Moodle as the placement season has kicked in and Placecom is working 24*7 to get new jobs.

Visualising the face of Prof and his RA waiting for your written assignments on Siebel case unsettle you. They are already due past 5 days.

Then take a a bit of calculation and realise that if you start reading the pre-class material stipulated by each professor for the day ahead, you might collapse in MSH 901 itself

So you decide to take yet another round of skim reads and prepare for the worst. (Kind of play on probability of being caught on the wrong foot in the class)

Classes start at 845. Its time for Bank of Bihar vs. State of Bihar, Supreme Court of India, 1971 (Bailment Case) and Vimal Chand Grover v. Bank of India, Supreme Court of India, 2000 (Pledge Case). Legalities of any issue are always interesting. The open book format shifts focus from memory to understanding. There's animated discussion, something that I really used to miss during my PE-2 days ten yrs ago ( P.S. Oct'04 was when I was trying to mug up provisions of Indian Contracts Act 1872,and Sale of Goods Act 1930 sitting all alone. The classroom experience was a complete different ball game)

Next we had a guest lecture by Mr Smaeer Walia; CEO, Smart Cube. To your utter happiness, you find that he is CA a who cleared in the early 90s and spent a decade or so with Accenture before deciding to plunge into the proverbial entrepreneurial waters and today runs a successful KPO by the name SmartCube. (Deal). We also dream to be like that at some point of our lives. But he told unequivocally that its not an esay journey, best with anxiety, frustation and loneliness. But by contuining to focus on domain knowledge and the quality dimensions of business, the sustainability would start trickling in slowly.

"No Battle Plan survives the first contact with the Enemy" - Russian

"Perfection is the ENEMY of Good"

"There has to be BALANCE between Listening, Knowing and Doing"

"Failure is a FEEDBACK mechanism"

"Be wary of CLIENT concentration RISK"

"its NEVER 2 companies working together, its ALWAYS is 2 INDIVIDUALS working together"

"Horizontal Growth is very important than Vertical growth"

Scroll Google Search for large 500 companies and look for word "Xformational"

"You Cannot Learn to Command if You Cannot Learn to Obey"

"Agree to Disagree"

"Company is a LIVING organism with 10,100,10000, or few 100,000 hearts beating together" towards a mission or vision

" Luck CAN be Turned to your side"

"Success and Adversity are friends that walk together - learn from both"

"No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time"

"We don't need to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. 100 small things, 100 small improvements - collectively creates a Huge Impact"

Invaluable snippets

You get an opprtunity to discuss your journey of cajobportal.com. he gives some really insightful tips on market commodization, angel investing, client acquistion, long term perspectives.

Good

Time to move on as the Google Calendar takes you to SR-8 where you started the intellectual discussion on auction mechanisms

You learn about amazing platforms of auctions , of how the Vickrey Groove model failed in New Zealand but works fantastic in Google Adwords. (Public Policy Vs Pvt Sector).(Read more)

Break for 60 minutes where you inadvertently compose your first ever JD for a freelance position of VP-Content and Creativity. (Link). One good thing about working on your own is that you can have a fancy designation for yourself. CEO, COO, CFO, VPs :)

Strategy and Innovation start at 230 PM

(Reliance Industries).

The agility he brought with a Complexity Index of 11.3 (as defined by the Nelson Complexity Index) RIL's refinery at Jamnagar is able to process 80 types of heavy and sour crude oils to produce high value products. Thats flexibility. Thats scale.