The Goal Setting and the Pygmalion Effect

Many places you have read about Goals settings, Smart Goals, How to make goals and so on. Today I am also going to speak about Smart Goals only but want to elaborate in some different way.

I would like to start this with the lines 'A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.'

Goal should be planned in the smart way for the best outcomes. Here what i need to say with smart no not what all you have heard but it's much more then that.
SMART is not only 'specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound.' but it is much more then that. The Goal Setting is considered an “open” theory, so as new discoveries are made, it is modified. Numerous studies have shown that specific and ambitious goals lead to a higher level of performance.

Goal set should be SMART enough to motivate you, to inspire you. Goal Set should always be more then Potential so that you always be motivated and work at your full potential. Every company/firm must have a strong integrated approach to setting up its goal and targets, an activity that is aligned to involve every individual of the company to realize its targets set.

Sometimes it will happen that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Pygmalion Effect:

The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect.

“When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.” (Rosenthal and Babad, 1985)

 Benefits:

Demonstrates how expectations can drive better performance

Helps leaders develop their staff

Lifts productivity throughout the organization

A shift from Craft Management to Modern Management....

Each lecture of Prof. Mandi is surprising me. This time he entered in the class with small cubical blocks with him to make us learn the difference between the craft management and modern management. He asked a one question, You want a Cobbler making the shoes or you want shoes made by 100 people in organization( Adidas, Puma, Bata etc.), you would prefer 2nd options whereas Cobbler is expert of that thing. The cobbler is craft management and the option of many people is modern management. I was not so clear about difference in both but we are taken to the activity which cleared every doubt regarding it.

Prof. Mandi on Craft/Modern Management in his own style

 We did the activity of building Tower with blogs.The activity was performed in 2 scenarios:
1. A man has given blogs to build a tower no instructions except that he can't use any support.

2. A blind folded person build a tower with just single hand that too left hand and a person will guide to him (manager) in building that tower and one CEO is also assigned.
In what case you will have big tower? I know you would prefer 1st one even we did the same but results are different.

A single person was able to make Tower using 22 blocks and in the 2nd case blind folded person made a tower of 26 blocked. Surprised....Even we were. Concept is simple
Old Management/ Craft Management that is in 1st case Doing and Deciding by same person.
In 2nd Case It was only Doing by Blind folded person and Deciding factor is given to other person , this is modern management. Here blind folded person is just doing what he is guided by the manager. Today's manager want this only.

Deciding Factor is the sole of work and Modern management separate this deciding factor to the doing factor. With the help of activity we come up with some differences between Craft Management and Modern Management.

Some contradictions have come in class after this that why is the concept of Flattered organization is coming then by reducing the management. The point he explained is Organization management is at three level Lower Management , Middle Management and Upper Management . By flattered organization concept they are removing the middle management. Lower Management and Upper management are always required.

So our discussion come to an end at this for now. We will be getting some more MBA Gyan form our guru Prof. Mandi and will keep on posting for you all.......

Pocket MBA

Starting a new phase of life in NITIE. While coming here i was very tensed and feeling uncomfortable as i have to take few strong decisions of life for joining MBA. And once I entered the campus it took me no time to understand that this is not only about MBA this is about living your life with passion and innovation. The campus is one of the best which will automatically open the windows of your mind and your thinking goes to the next level.

The journey is just begin here with 2 days of lecturers and it is really difficult in the starting to catch the things in lecture of 2 hours as it is more then 2 years I passed my graduation. The 1st day was really tough for me. 

Now comes the 2nd day, 1st Lecture and Professor T.Parsad (so called Prof. Mandi) entered the class, class environment changed totally. We left the chairs sitting with sir on the floor without any pen or register. I was feeling something different, something I have not imagined and was happy enthusiastic to get something different. Then he said we are here learning Mba 'Dhandaa' and we don't require pen or register for 'dhandaa' but mind, so no pen registers in the class.With the the learning started.

Consuming is Creation , and Creation is consuming

The class was full of innovation, how to learn , make others and how to make profit out of it. The emphases was more on spreading the learning and make the money with the learning innovation which will not only do the business but these innovations will spread learning.
We have seen some toys which impart knowledge with fun and play like  a Newton's Cradle, Globe ball which NITIE engineers have made with there innovative thinking and with our management skills how we can make earning out of those innovation and make other's also learn.
The focus was not on paying the fees and learn but it was other way around which no other B Schools do, Learn and we will pay you , the concept is simple 'Earning by Learning' and 'Learning for Earning'.

We also discussed about taking mandi to the other part of the country and spread the learning and do the earning. People can see the the concept of Mandi and also meet Dr. Mandi here:

Mandi Live

The class is more about practical knowledge, how can we make earning out of our thinking, strategies. 
The thing which i get is MBA is not about believing something or learning , this we have already did till now. Now it's time to apply the knowledge we have, apply the strategies and do the earning.


The whole idea of writing these blogs is to share the knowledge with world. There are lot's of thing in this class of Principal Organization and Management from Prof. Mandi and coming with many things in the coming blogs.....