Idly resting in peace and having no work to do I was thinking about the last passed four and a half months. The first semester of the PGPM program has ended and still it seems that it’s just a matter of yesterday that I came to ASB. Well! Lots of studies, fun, work-pressure (sometimes, at least) we’ve dealt with. But the million dollar question is how much have I been able to extract out of the time and money I invested in! or shall I go for a holistic approach (evaluate only when the complete program finishes up)?
The subjects were Information Analysis and Decision Making, Marketing Management, Critical Thinking, Organizational Behavior, Business Communication, Interpersonal Skills. In IAD, we’d to deal with lots of concepts and numbers-crunching. Broadly it revolved around the concepts of probability and normal distribution. I’m sure that at least these two concepts will be quite handy in actual business environment.
Then, in Marketing Management we’re broadly taught the a,b,c to x,y,z of marketing. Lots of new complex terms and every concept was kind-of ideal. But we did undergo some case-studies which were superb. Whenever I used to prepare for the tests, it always seemed to me whatever is written in the textbook is obvious, but then, in exam that only thing didn’t use to come in my mind. Can’t help!
Critical Thinking! How logical one can be? Undoubtedly, I’ve been benefited by this course, but it seems that I’ve just seen the tip of the iceberg. Much more is to be explored. Organizational Behavior! There was some feeling inside me that culture could be different of different places, but I didn’t know that a couple of chapters were entirely devoted to this aspect. Besides this, I learnt a LOT of new things, particularly, how to socialize. ;-)
So! Have I changed even by a bit? Broadly no, but seeing from a micro-perspective yes.
to be continued...
