Village Tailor to IIM Professor : Student Enterprising Story

I m a typical academic professor working at an Indian Institute of Management  teaching business to best brains. Students lovingly call me as Mandi Sir ! Students always give nick names to teachers ! I feel my students did justice by giving me this nick name ! Reason, I conduct mandi assignment for them annually. Hence, it is natural that I earn such a title  Mandi Sir ! 

I added the prefix '1/12'  to Mandi Sir ! So in full, I am  popularly referred to  as 1/12 Mandi Sir !  Ofcourse, one of my bosses objected for using this title '1/12 Mandi Sir' for my linked in account ! Ofcourse, bosses are not permanent ! They come and go ! Once boss left , my title again reappeared ! 

I m the author of this book; I am  also a professor  who implement student enterprising and startups as a mission; Further,  by luck, I was a start-uper across my student days - from school to college, from KG to PG ! I was a tailor, I was a milk man, I was an accountant, I was a tuition master, I was... many more roles I took to ! 

This triangulation of Author @Teacher @ Student Starter ! I would not have become a professor ! I would not found a place to work in an IIM !  is what you as book reader will get as unique offer in this book. I am not a 

I would not be writing this if I was not a student startuper! Promise! I would have been a coolie in my remote village 150 kms from Hyderabad ! Even if I come across you, you would have just neglected me. 

- My teacher mentor visited me at my tailor shop ! 

- I overcame so many local optimas ! TTC..

- Toughest decision was to loose Railway TC job when I was ' Income Less' young man ! 

- Working brought me close to so many so many people.. Madhusudhan, 

-  Where ever I go I was received with respect.. Reason is.. Working and Studying ! 

-  Retd Police Officer ! Loves my work .. 

-  My seniors love me .. 

-  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Need for Student Startup

  What is the need for Student Startup !  -  Conventional ACADEMIC  learning has lost is fervor. No more it is Valid nor Viable !  Information dissemination is no more learning ! Academic Learning needs to be Reinvented ! -  Employment as  'end in' of education is no more feasible and need not be acceptable. Education to all those who want is feasible, and can be made possible. Need of the hour is new narrative for edn. -  Enterprising  Path for youngsters has become relatively easier in current times.   -  ' The Market '  landscape has completely transformed.   - Technologies and resources are available for free and affordable for most ! - Gen Z  are aspirational and aware ! ------- Why a student does a startup has very different reasons . Reasons are not conventional ones as such, Passion, Born entrepreneur ! Not interested to do a job. The over riding necessity for a student is all the acquired  acad...
Read more

Application of Information - Real Learning

Application of Learning  - Information  Customer Fit ! Here we define learning as 'application of information' . Acquisition, accumulation and storage makes no sense when learning is discussed with reference grown up young adult learners. Academic studying  is old habit and practice. When information is scarce,  information collection was the greatest thing. In internet and AI age, where information is available at click, the purpose of information collection has changed. More so when we are considering Higher Education learners.  In the end, it is the Information that is VALUED  by the customers ! The learning rule is,  Interest in information collection is APPLICATION of it, VALUE CREATION and VALIDATION of information for SELF  and OTHERS.  Why ?  Leads to skill development; Leads to authentication of information; When and if the person realize the information, it will be no more information but transforms into KNOWLEDGE;  Altho...
Read more

Chapter: Student Enterprising : Literature Review

 Student Enterprising: A review of Literature Books:  1. Rashmi , 2.  Book and Comments  1. First of the books, which picked up 10  student startup stories involving 14 students who undertook startups in most successful way. One can imagine how many  such successful and unsuccessful stories would have happened and not seen the light of the day.  2. None of the student startups are patronaged by the academics ! On the contrary, academics try to make use of the success of the student enterprising for their advantage.  3. Unsaid, however, one can imagine how many pains, problems and hindrances the students would have faced in working on their passions.  4. The  student startup stories range from top class academic institutions to average and below average institutions ( IIMs, IITs, to ICFAI and IET Alwar) .  5. Students belonging to wide variety of disciplines including MBAs, Engineering, Law, CA are listed. 6. Student startupers also ...
Read more