I am still alive, yeah I am. That's how stretched things are these days that I don't find time to even read blogs. I have six assignments lined up for submission and I will have to work 20 hours a week to subsidise my living expenditure and the time involved in travelling to get to the workplace is one fourth of the time I spend there. Now then, I have already gone into economics and the psychiatry of time management. Out there some where lays this exponent yet integral part of everything, Motivation. I am not sure how many people do regard this as the basic factor but I am almost certain that each and everyone would associate to Motivation as "the" stimulus which drives people crazy.

I don't want to get into details of phycology. I am neither Robbins nor Swami Sugabodhananda. Let’s take blogging as an example. I always take my life as examples or at the most any common situations since there is a matter of personal privacies involved when I talk about someone else's. Talking about mine, I started blogging since I wanted to get into sports journalism or some where inside a publication side of a sports industry. But I drifted away from that and am doing a MBA now, that's of irrelevance when it comes this post. So this initial motivation or stimuli (internal stimuli) was up to such an extent that even if a wall would come in between I would break through to blog in the initial stages. I would want to consider blogging life same as the life of a product. I will term it as Blogging Life Cycle.

There maybe many exceptions to Blogging Life Cycle. I have assumed lot of factors here. Let me see how far the similarities are. Whenever a product is launched into the market there are always people who buy it or start using it immediately. We term it or the marketing terms it as Innovators. Then come the Early adopters. These two are the primal and crucial forces, when it comes to any product, over here its blogging. Once these people are satisfied with the concept and approve of its identity then the whole world will catch up depending on the Market segment that the product is focusing on. Blogging is similar to that. I will say that almost all products are similar to this.

Okey, we have got into the marketing aspects of blogging trying to discuss about motivation. That was the main emphasis of my last para. My observation is that Marketing is vert important for giving the stimuli. People spoke about blogs and their advantages & demerits wherever I went. I read blogs, began commenting in it, started one of my own, names it as Sambhar to Sydney, wrote crap in it, few bloggers even read it, one or two commented, which acted as a stimuli to go ahead with writing more crap and I wrote more. Now that you know why I involved Marketing inside Motivation, I will continue with it.

Some where down the line I started loosing interest due to variety of reason even then we had a little blogging group, I should say, that kept appreciating the others for their content (external stimuli). But that some how got pulled back due to various reasons and I gripped my threshold on Sambhar to Sydney mainly due to the external stimuli. Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility is certainly the case for everyone but some how there are exemptions to the law, which are very few. So coming back into the termilogy of Motivation again I can say this plays an important part inside doing everything.

I began to think about this since I had to write an essay on performance management in the context of organisation and strategic goals. But I felt this is the prime factor that drives people in general towards the achievement of self and on larger picture captivate the goals on a longer run for the company too. Without these prime stimuli everything else is obsolete according to me. My prime argument in this paper is going to be based on this point offcourse covering the Managers, Organisational Goals and Corporate Governance in the loop.

Consider for example my mom. She works in the Banking Industry from the past 25 years. This was the first job that she got. She has around 12 years to give to the company. She just got appraised for her services to the bank. Think about someone like her. What kind of motivation you think she will have? She has may be not doing the same work, but for sure doing the same "kind" of work. What makes her do that? Internal stimuli are definitely not the reason. Bingo! External Stimuli is unquestionably the reason for that I would say. I presume this is the reason with almost everyone. So this is certain that Marketing forms an integral part of Motivation and Motivation in turn forms a life system.

Between the result of the first ever examination was out today. I was surprised to score the second highest in class even though I missed HD by 0.75 of a mark. See this is what I call as a stimuli! And then there is other side to it. My second exam marks were out and I just managed to pass the paper. Even this is a stimulus to do better in the next exam.

I always say this "World respects performance not potential".


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Have you ever changed five houses in the span of three months?

Ask me I will say, yes. I have learnt the nuances of changing houses by perfecting the art that I am planning to start a company which helps in giving instant consulting services for folks who are planning to move. As we all know that there are even bloggers who have stopped blogging after entering into their new domains.

Houses mean a lot to me. These are the places you tend to bear an increasing amount of connection and root back your daily life. Apart from the economics of living being necessities- food, water and shelter, there seems to be even more cumulative value as the day’s progress. I never expected that I would be running around like a nomad or vagabond, I must say, literally living out of the suitcases. But I thought this was a must and a change would certainly make me to live more than anything else.

It was not that I didn’t like the old house. What was not there? When I moved in at the beginning, there were four girls and two guys, including me. It later became five girls and one guy, including me. What else do I need?! Is that fact alone suffice me enough to stay there till the time someone kicks me out of the bleady house. Everything inside the house was so perfect. Then why did I move out?!

Is this the case that there are three chicks, out of which two are desi’s who stay at my current accommodation? Or is it because of the fact that my uni is the next building to the one which I am staying at present? Or may be is it because that it is in a main road so there are problems of security in the nights when I come back home?

Whatever it is said and done, Sambhar is moving around big time inside Sydney.

(This post is the first one that I wrote while traveling in a local train)

UTS Graduate School of Business conducted their Majors day today for students of the business school pursuing their MBA's and Master of Business programs. From an academic point of view it is very important for students to know which area they are going to specialise into. It is a well known fact that specialisation is driving the whole management crazy; it is the need for specialisation which has made people to diversify themself in to so many niche-segments like finance, marketing or general management. Like ants even humans have realised the need for specialisation long time back especially after the World War II, when the need for specialised knowledge into a desired field became distinctively evident.

From the following example you can understand the status of any business students mind. My German friend who has a background in media relations is very much interested in Finance and Strategy. She has all her work experience and studies back home in Germany and is seeing her future prospects in Chile since she thinks there is good future by working there. But the real problem comes when she doesn't know what she should take in as her majors or sub-majors. One thing is sure here that she wants to get into Financial Services Industry. As I had mentioned earlier that she is also so keen in doing Strategic Management since it would give her an insight into deriving good strategies in business. She has a distinctive problem here.

One is that she cannot completely do Finance as her majors since she wants to do Strategy as well. But if she does Strategy as one of her sub-major then she wouldn't be a complete Finance person. So she is in this dilemma as to choosing her majors. For students like her, this Fair provided an opportunity to ask questions and collect data's at a primary level such that it could influence her decision accordingly. Most of students are caught in this dilemma, I would say. The most common one is the decision of taking Finance or Marketing as their major or sub major. Number of students belonged to this category whereas there were others having heaps of others dilemmas as well.

In all this fair proved to be more effective and alligned to the scheme of things than any other one.


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Today we had this brilliant 3 hour lecture from our professor on Politics in organisations, rather covering the Political frame out of the 4 frames of the organisations. Carl marx to Stalin was brought into the playground and discussed thread bare. The four dimensions of power were sketched out. There was a mini-crusade argument period within the lecture hours where in we were allowed to fight in among over self, off course there was no physical brutality. I thought in sometime it will get into a stage where that would be possible, such was the force of the exhibitors, must say.

Monday was the accounts exam, my first exam pertaining to accounts this semester. Accounts is a very quantative subject normally but the books and lectures are designed in such a way that they talk about the dryer aspects of accounting and focus more on basic functionality. We were under the impression that even the question paper would bear a similarity but it turned out to be the other way round. It was filled with balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other statistical descriptions that lot of them in class found the paper to be very tough including me, in spite of coming from an accounting background. There is a disadvantage by attending a class on Monday, since you are fighting in the battleground without the knowledge of the opposition, here in this it is the question paper. I was unfortunate to get into such a position whereas my peers we so happy when they got to know the mode of the paper.

The subject is divided into management and financial accounting. The test was on the latter half. Now all I have to do is forget about it and focus even higher in the management accounting exam such that I notch up as many marks as possible to compensate for the loss made here, if any. The buzz around the business school is slowly submerging below ground level due to mid term exam coming to an end. Now we have a weeks break thanks to Easter, where I have lined up close to 6 assignments to complete which I haven't even looked into. Planning to go to a beautiful temple on Friday, located in Helenbrough with few University friends of mine.

The course work is so heavy that you are submerged into doing the inevitable. But sometimes you feel you have lot of time without realising that there isn't any when you see at the bigger picture. The main question is sustainability. Any MBA is considered as a business entity by itself. It has its product values and costs. It caters to different segments and markets. Segments are the age groups with rich or poor work experiences and markets are the specialised fields it emphasis its focus on. It is more of a roller-coaster ride than anything else. Over the two years you meet a zillion people, experience different forms and methodologies of teaching, learn gazillion ways of doing things, solve hundreds of case studies, and interact with hundreds of nationalities and thousands of sub-sects within the nationality which you wouldn't have ever imagined.

If you consider me for example, inspite of UTS having majority of Asian student’s domination, there are still 87 nationalities of students who are pursuing their education here. Again this is further more subjected to segmentation and diversification, due to the sub-sects in cultures and previous education. So when an Indian identifies to do a particular problem, a German has an alltogether different strategy to complete the given task. The outcome may vary but atleast the knowledge derived out of team work definitely remains within you.

Ok, time out for now!!!

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One week's house rent $150

One week's food $40

One week's mis expenses $20

Beeing home in Bangalore for a week= PRICELESS!!!

(btw whts the price of priceless?!!)

I don't think so. Adidas will have to go a long way before they can look at taking over as the Market Leader from Nike, globally. Though Nike is not the most popular brand in India comparing to Adidas & Reebok, this acquisition by Adidas won't affect the ever growing Indian market.

Take a look at this and make your conclusion.

May be we can see Rahul & Sachin in the same advertisement endorsing sports goods very soon!
(Rahul dravid, Sachin tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Virender Shewag, Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan)

Imagine if Coke acquires Pepsi someday!!!


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Probably this is my second post on my MBA. I am not bothered about the "rationality" involved in this article. Personally, MBA is a quite big thing for me, especially coming from a decent university. I know my long-hoop jump from altogether different career to education lines, which is the main reason I regard this very high. Coming to think about it I feel somewhat good nowadays that I am able to cope up with so many things which I reckoned was impossible just a year back. This gives me immense pleasure to state that I have been able to do those ultra-impossible tasks. May be we haven't got into core-quantative concepts which shakes me quite a bit, since I am doing the subjects which needs more artistic skills than quantative ability.

The Logical sense involved regardless of whatever you are doing has to be significantly higher to sustain and survive the existing competition. This is the mid-term exams week, which is why my flow seems to be a bit restricted when it comes to writing blogs. Last time I wrote, I never stopped. This time I find myself in a situation where I have no time to even write. Mainly due to the shit load of assignments, mid-term-exams, presentations & most importantly part-time job. Yes, I have found myself a part-time job thanks to few friends here, which requires me to work in the weekends.

With the exams ruling the roast, assignments rocking the space & presentations breaking the head, I find myself submerged in all these, yet trying to strike a balance & also trying to enjoy them to the maximum. I have found a major liking for the Organisational Behavior subjects, mostly due to the aspects of it & party because of my professor. Every b-school will have their own gods & goddess when it comes to lecturing & teaching. There are no shortages of them when it comes to UTS. It is also obvious that you would sometimes end up in classes which would feel like when the 180 minutes would pass successfully.

Marketing is the next subject which is near to OAD, mainly due to the subjects itself. Even then we have a lecturer who doesn't have the desired communicative skill being a Chinese guy; I find some interesting arguments going on in class due to his statistical knowledge due to a PHD from the US. I was surprised to know that there are few Americans studying in UTS, naturally being the fact that US b-schools are regarded as the Lion's Den when it comes to management education. It seems there is a decent reputation going for few Australian B-Schools including UTS in US. I was ecstatic in knowing that, without doubt.

More or less life has been revolving around the books & “economies of scale and scope” for long. Guess this may be the pattern till the end of the semester in June. Then we go in for a months break to indict our souls to sit for another 18 weeks without complaining. Without any doubt my reading habits have increased but they are mostly the B-School stuff. I am dying to read some fiction, but there seems to be no time at all. You may feel puzzled over lot of things that you read here but trust me that's how life is here.

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You deserve it Robin, All the best for the first ever one day international tomorrow at Kochi. Tons of runs as we used to say!!!

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