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New Site Finally created

Howdy Guys,

Finally I have been able to create a new site for the blogs, Henceforth all the posts will be made there instead of here. Hence please note down the new blog address. Its www.brittlenuts.co.cc

Finally I can give you much more flexibility than before. Thanks and take care

Enjoy Guys

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Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute

One of our readers Amit has requested information about my college and feels some confusion regading his sisters admission to an MBA College. So Amit …. here we go,

ALkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies, the formal and legal information regarding this can be obtained from www.mu.ac.in/alkesh

Why should you opt this college in the first place

- The college is situated in the heart of the city, Kalina University campus, and still is far from it , in the sense that the campus is a cool place to chill and relax your body and mind. Far away from the squels and honking of the traffic, plush campus with greenery all around.

- The college is a part of Mumbai University, Administered and maintained by the University Department – hence the tag line – A Department of Mumbai University

-The Infrastructure is really good – It can be seen from the fact that although its a university department it has full fledged computer lab accessible 12 hours a day to students, a library with more than 6 thousand books on management alone, good toilets and a gymnasium where in you can relax playing TT or chase the queen in Carrom

Apart from all this it has a really good collection of visiting faculty to teach the MMS students – Most of them being the directors and CEO’s somewhere or the other

To soothen the mood, beside the college, is the university pond, where you have to show ID Card after 12:00 AM to 6 AM otherwise :) you know it. For the rest of the time you can chill out with your girlfriend there.

The college boasts to be competely wi-fi enabled which works most of the time (The only time its down is when its most needed) and the internet connection (apart from browsing orkut in the lab or downloading movies there) is available with a download speed of 100 KB/S which is going to be increased further this month.

The students, since they dont come from the Management quota, are really brilliant and have enormous potential, most of them have past industry experience.

Boys and girls hostle is available but with limited seats (10 to 15 seats for boys and 1 seat for girl) though it will be increased this year (hopefully)

The crowd (you know what it means – right!!) is really good around the campus if you get time to look at it

24 hour Reading room near the college

Now the flip side

No canteen in the college (Not even a tea or a coffee vending machine) even though the students stay in the college for more than 12 hours

No other basic amenities inside the campus like Photo copying, Printing or such other essential things – You need to walk a lot buddy

Bi-Polar environment in the college

The processess the not completely systematic – the college is still evolving

The Mobile Network is very weak in the college – Although the management is not really reaponsible for it but a new comer should know about it- after all you need to talk to your girlfriend during breaks !!

The college is not still well known and the placements are decent with an average of 4 pa

Thats it ….

If you belong to a different college and want to share something about it – Good or Bad no matter or want to clear confusions in this admission season feel free to post comments in the bottom of the page …. People will definitely respond to you.

Manish…

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Girls – How to deal with gender bias – Simple Tips

Today my colleague Jigar gave me a few tips of how to please women and of course girls in any organization as well as personal life. I am sharing it with you all. Please give your feed back and share your experiences related to this kind of thing.

Give them choices Giving choice to a girl means giving them the authority and the power to take decision. This is a psychological factor which plays a great role in making them more productive and efficient

Notice how you interact. When you’re in a small group,
do you tend to exchange more eye contact with the men in it? Do you
speak more often to men than to women? If you do notice a bias toward
men, try shifting your attention slightly. Shake the woman’s hand, and
exchange eye contact with her even if she’s not talking. If she’s being
quiet, ask for her thoughts. (Don’t overdo all this, though, as you
could raise the discomfort level.)

Actively listen. It’s easy to “hear past” someone who
is talking. (Our minds work about five times the speed of our mouths.
In our rush to finish the speaker’s thought and put our own two cents
in, we shut the other person down.) If you have a bias, it’s even
easier to want to interrupt. Slow down and listen.
If your response demonstrates that you’ve heard what she’s said, she’ll
feel more enabled to contribute more fully to your organization.

Some of the content was lifted as it is from – HBR Editor’s Blog with the Title “Is Gender Bias Undermining your company”

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My Struggle with the enuch !!! Whats yours ??

Recently I was moving out from Mumbai to Nagpur, wow a visit to home is such a nice experience, especially to those who come here for higher education or work. The best and comfortable way to reach home??

What would you say ??

I think its the railways … especially if you are short on cash (a student always is) or you just want to enjoy the journey. Well some times worst of your luck strikes – You don’t get a reservation ticket and there is no bus which can take you home for two days. (Sorry don’t consider the plane as an option, as I am still a student

Now continuing my story…
I was pretty sick and i wanted to go home as soon as possible, no bus service available and no reserved seat in the train. Even the TTE was reluctant to give me on the spot ticket (you know undertable charges !!)

So I decided to opt the general compartment. Now the real problems started….

First I had to give the KOOLI a full 100 bucks just to make me stand in the compartment. Now you can pretty well guess the crowd. So continuing I somehow placed my baggage and the train started. Just as Kalyan passed there was the first attack.

By this time you would have guessed….. who attacked us???

Yes they were the enuches!!! and i would pretty well call it an attack.

FIrst they will tease you then you know how they behave if you even for once answer them with a negative

Second attack was in Chalisgaon.

Third and fourth some where again ….

So what is the moral of the story….

Guys carry 40 to 50 Bucks extra as the hafta for a single journey, for these enuches.

I just ask how big is this mafia.. who all are the participants in this game…As I was sitting in the last last seat. The Head Enuch was counting the collection for the coach, and could you guess it ….

The total collection was about 22000 Rupees. Now just imagine there are about 4 general coaches in a single train and some 20 to 30 trains pass the station daily (more but no less). So in all the figure goes to approx. 22000(X)20(X)365 => 160 million Rupees. and this from a single route. In Mumbai alone there are 4 to 5 routes. and I think the figures are taken on the conservative side.

SO these are the questions i would like to put forth before you all? and ask about how we as general public curb them?? They are a social evil and there has to be a full stop to all this some where. I ask why not here. I ask all of you readers -

Where does all this money go??
what is the government doing about it??
If this is the source of income for the mafia, why is police allowing it?
and How long are we to bear this?
Is the givernment incapable to handle this?
Is throwing them out of the running train the only solution??(This has taken place in the areas from Gondia to Raipur in the states of Marashtra and Chattisghar)
Then the government should not blame the task bearers?

If this has happened to you also please share your experiences and some how we will try to raise our combined voices against this social vice.

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The Self Imposter Syndrom


Do you feel as if you are pulling the wool over the eyes of your
workmates, hiding your incompetence? You are not alone. There is even a
name for it:

Imposter Syndrome.

Management consultant
Gill Corkindale takes up the subject of business professionals with a
sense of inadequacy in a blog post on Harvard Business.

I have
come across many instances of Imposter Syndrome among my coaching
clients in recent years. Typically, they are managers on fast-track
careers in their late 30s or early 40s who have been promoted to a new
role in which their experience is being tested to the limits. Despite
support from their bosses and feedback showing they have great
operational, strategic and people skills, they often seem beset with
doubts.

This article has been lifted from Ankitgokani’s blog post “Are you a Management Imposter

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Getting Vs Taking

Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.

They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.

Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.

A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.

A few people, not many, take opportunities at work. Marketers have the easiest time of this (sort of hard to commandeer the chain saw) but don’t do it nearly as often as they should.

What have you taken today?

 

This post was lifted from Seth’s Blog as it is. The author is Seth Godin

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