The ‘freeing of minds’ continued. However, this time we went unprepared. A bunch of 3 students had read the blogs on skywalk. A pedagogic tool for many management experts to analyse a host of attributes – team work, leadership, team formations, roles etc. Nitin, Mayank and Nirjhar – our frontrunners for the class, highlighted some key points of skywalk.

As any kindergarten chap would be able to figure out, the length of walkable gap and the minimum people are turnkeys for the experiment.

 Chalking out the vision, mission and objective statements would be any place to start for a manager carrying out this experiment. Defining roles and assigning tasks based on risks involved would come next.

The next class was the most interesting  in terms of cognition, noesis, perception and blah blah blah.

Prof.T.Prasad got his ‘bag of possessions’. And this time there were tiny blocks with symbols and letters on them.

Prof .Mandi took us on a roller coaster ride showing us the aspects of OLD SCHOOL vs NEW AGE sort of management styles, through the block building demonstrations.

Each person working on it had a specific role to play which he later stressed on using the deciding power rule.

The above diagram shows how decision making power is not in the hands of ground level workforce. All the objectives and decision flow in the from the top level management.

The above table shows the differences between the traditional management systems and modern management systems as they exist today.

Many companies today still follow the old traditional systems,examples-family run businesses,small scale industries etc. 

I have restricted this blog to pictorial representations, many of which have been hand-crafted on ms-word. 

Thank you for reading!