Who will perform better? Blindfolded person or Open eyed person???

After reading this question, an obvious reaction will pop up in your mind that what kind of question this is!! But all thumb rules in the world outside, doesn't hold good in Prof Mandi's class.
Yes, a blindfolded person can perform better than an open eyed person.
And it's not just a hypothetical statement. But it has been proved in POM class through an interesting activity.
Now here comes the activity, it was to build a single cubed tower with maximum number of cubes possible. Everyone was asked to predict the number and one with highest number was given opportunity to build a tower.

Person building tower was open eyed and he built the tower with 22 cubes.
Now everyone was asked to predict the size of tower with blind folded. Predictions were lowered now. 
Finally 3 persons started building a tower. Roles were divided, a CEO, a middle level manager and a worker(blindfolded person). Role of CEO was to set a target and to get updates from manager. Manager was guiding worker to do task within given constraints.

Manager is guiding worker to build a tower.

Results of this task were astonishing. Tower of 25 cubes was built.!!

This activity explains the working of Modern management, in which task delegation is done according to skills of a person.
We can define two types of persons in an organization-
1.Open Eyed Person(OEP)
2.Blindfolded Person(BFP)
These persons can be referred to the old management and modern management respectively.

Open Eyed Person- 
-He is a person with decision making ability.
-He has all responsibilities. 
-He needs to pay attention to each and everything.
-He is conscious about results of his doings. 

Blindfolded Person-
-As he doesn't have any decision making ability, he is a follower of decisions made by manager.
-Responsibilities to be handled are very few.
-He concentrates only on task assigned to him.
-As he is unaware of surrounding, feeling of dissatisfaction comes in.

In modern management, crucial task of decision making is done by top level management. Thus, the responsibility of outcome is catered by top level management. Workers can work freely and as their task is delegated, skill required to do task is low as compared to old craftsman style management.

Comparison between old and modern management is explained as-

Even though the productivity is high, the skill of individual and also of a group goes on decreasing. Also dissatisfaction in workers increases, as they are unaware of decisions.

Role of hierarchy in an organization was discussed. Top management does strategic management which includes decision making, planning etc. Middle management guides worker and supervises. Workers are the ones who carry out the activity. When flat type of organization is proposed, only middle management can be removed. As decision makers and doers must exist in a system.

Now after reading this post the above mentioned question does not appear nonsense. So Who will perform better? Blindfolded person or Open eyed person???

From the title of blog it looks like it's a blog about a very boring lecture. But surprisingly it isn't.!!

Second day of PGDIM course started with surprises. Prof. Mandi i.e Prof. T. Prasad entered the classroom, went towards the stage, sat on the floor and asked us to come forward and join him. But this wasn't the surprise, because then came toys, surprise element for management class, out of the bag of Prof. Mandi. For me he looked like a magician with his bag full of surprises. While we were observing the Newton's Cradle,a self balancing butterfly and a Ball, he was explaining us principles of management. Which included making business of small things about which people are unaware (eg Newton's Cradle, which excited our curiosity about it's working).

Newton's Cradle

In Newton's cradle, when one sphere is set in motion, one on the other side gets triggered. The phenomena can be explained by Newton's momentum principle. Similar phenomena happens when two spheres are set in motion. This explains that how much you give, you'll get it back. Now comes the case of having three spheres triggered. It explained the consumer behaviour, that is, one having surplus will give to the one with deficiency.

Ball and Balancing butterfly

Ball and butterfly gave us the vision to look at things differently.

While explaining 'Earning from learning and Learning from earning', Prof. Mandi explained us MANDI, which stands as hallmark in NITIE's curriculum. The purpose of MANDI is not just to practice the classroom concepts of Marketing, Principles of Management, Business Economics, and Accounting in the real field. But also to make a difference in the lives of thousands of children who lose out on basic education and to impart an additional dimension to the learning of the students who buy these toys.The entire amount collected is donated to the NGO.

At the end of the lecture he asked us to write a blog about the first class. Again this was the thing which we can't expect generally. But it was Prof Mandi's class!!

Prof Mandi interacting with student

Looking forward for more management lessons.