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Thursday, April 06, 2006

bittersweet..

The FMS golden jubilee batch graduated a couple of days back..well, atleast i hope that the buggers didn't flunk

. and with them passing out, the baton of stewardship passes on to us.

its not an easy task they leave us. there are and will be situations which we will need all their expertise and experience. the funny thing with life is that by the time you become an expert at something, you start doing something else. the best people arent there at their best jobs. its only wannabes, like us, who will subsequently learn throughout the course of the year, what these folks had been doing. and like them, we will hand down the responsibility to the juniors by the time we become really good at them. sweet.

anyway, lets take things as they come. this one's more about the bittersweet experiences i've had with this batch throughout the year. kinda like their story through my eyes.

the first interaction were the best..i guess the halo was still there and the judgements were temporaily suspended. for me, they were the gods on the firmament. and they did pretty well justify the tags. th induction week was..what it was. bloody trial by fire..or insomnia..whichever way you look at it.

cut to later when we had those series of soap boxes - the ancient method of platonic torture. they are important to me because it cleared me off a lot of the opium smoke i was in. suddenly well-meaning people started to make no sense at all. i make no bones about the fact that i dont like a lot of seniors...though not the usual suspects

and this xenophobia owes its genesis to that period. i've spewed enough fire in thse pages in all of that period and have no wish to regurgiate what is, essentially, a known fact.

Aptitude tests miss the point. By way off. being a good manager is not equivalent to what is being thought or practised at all the high temples of management. and you need to be in a b-school to realise how true this is. but then, the question remains, how can you be an objective...insider ?

however, like that hackneyed cloud, this coin has a silver side as well. there are somethings i've realised; all those pressures & responsibilities that these people faced for each one of us..without letting us know. one thing that exists irrspective of my or anybody else's opinions...these seniors live for their juniors. as Isaac Asimov writes

"An individual life is one thread in the tapestry, and what is one thread compared to the whole?
.....Keep your mind fixed firmly on the tapestry and do not let the trailing off of a single thread affect you."

probably, i was the one thread that had to be roughed out, but thats life..and i accept it. in retrospect, i think all i needed was a bit of patience and things would have been better, really. its been a long time coming, but i' definitely grown some brains over my existing setup since i've stepped into this place.

And..for better, for worse, these guys have played a big-big role in that. thats why their passing out is so bittersweet. and as they leave, i wish they werent. there is so much still to do . here's wishing them best of luck for their future assignments from the lines of the immortal AC/DC

For those who are about to rock..we salute you!

Posted at 11:02 am by Lord Q


	uRmad April 15, 2006 01:23 PM PDT >i> but then, the question remains, how can you be an objective...insider ? </i> Truer words haven't been spoken !


	Srikrishnan April 12, 2006 09:10 PM PDT Nice post.. best wishes for the future ahead.. hey forgot to tell u.. got thro for MS in Univ of Minn Twin Cities...


	styleguy April 12, 2006 02:51 AM PDT Hey....great post. It really brings out the emotions and the relationships amongst the seniors & the juniors @ a B-skool. And I, being on the verge of starting my MBA, it feels all the more enchanting...

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