where B schools fail!

I have always wondered what guides people in making decisions .. is it by instincts .. is it the people around them .. it is not uncommon to see people around you being carried away by many things while making decisions but at times it is shocking to see someone at the very top level of management make such bad ones.

I got a forward containing all the changes that have been made in the Income Tax Calculations. And a small line stated that “from this financial year the amount paid towards education loan will not be deducted from taxable amount and only the interest will be considered for deduction” This unimportant line in the huge document could make a huge difference to millions in this country.

Education loans are generally taken by students who wanna study but don’t ve the funds .. this is wat I thought and that change in IT regulations was a direct discouragement towards this younger generation who are just about to finish school and have already loaded their minds with dreams.

In a so called developing country where u get to save tax on almost everything from buying houses to saving money.. u don’t ve the privilege to do it on a investment for education. May be this government still considers education to be a investment and not a dream to be fulfilled. And to everything this was signed by our finance minister who is one of the very few Harvard graduates from India. The person who is so interested in bringing more FDI to India .. makin censux touch 10k and make our place a truly globalised one is not bothered abt the education loans. Really wonder what they teach in Harvard’s. but one of my strong opinions is that “management and decision making” is very much a personal skill and will ve to be developed with self realization . Even the best b schools on earth fail in this. And no wonder the greatest decision makers in any field are not even graduates leave alone being from a world class b school.  

a weekend nightmare!!

This had been one of my worst weekends. I had spent both saturday as well as the sunday working on one of the darkest terminals of unix. People call unix dark only coz it looks so dull but i call it the darkest coz I really dont ve a idea of what is happening inside.Was trying hard to get some sleep .
I was having a nightmare of all my programs throwin errors on monday morning just when my pl had come to check the output. I wanted to run away. Break that server. In simple words i was having trouble sleeping.
I rolled.. twisted and turned in my bed but taht nightmare wud not go away and wud never let me rest.
To add to all this misery i could hear a distant sound. A very familiar one but coming from a place far away. soon i realised that it was my cellphone just next to the pillow. It was around 2 in the night or 2 am early in the morning.. whatever u call it. but the phone was ringing and it had to be answered.
With a real great effort opened my eyes and saw the number .. all eccentric digits. Who could that be. Could it be my pl callin my from the server tellin me that i am thrown out of this project or cud it be the unix server itself wanting to blast me for writing such a bad program. Who ever it was it had to be answered.
"Hello.." a very sweet voice @ the other end. WOw.. unix is programmed to talk in female voices i thought. " Have u slept da? Have i disturbed u..?" was the caring next liner.
Now i am sure it was neither unix nor it was my pl. I was still blabbering @the other end wiht words i dont remember but when she revealed who she was . all my sleep was off and was back to 100 percent normal. Wow.. it was one of my very sweet frnd from usa and i talked for abt 30 mins.. not lettin my roomie sleep too.
It was so good at that time of the night . Out of no where she had come and saved me from the unix nightmares.
After i kept the phone down. I dint sleep a bit. Was thinkin abt her.. And soon it was time to leave for the office.
to work in unix.
Now i am confused.. who dint let me sleep.. the dark terminal of infy or the sweet friend of my school..