TiE Bizworld has been a fact re-enforcing experience for me. Why fact re-enforcing? As a student, one of our best teachers always said - Life is a learning process. Albeit the teacher is assigned the task of teaching students, most often it is the Teacher who learns a lot from the students. These same thoughts come to my mind at the end of my first TiE Bizworld experience as a BizGuru.
I learnt the following three things the most from the students:
1. Sense of Fun.
All the while, the teams that did well had a sense of fun in their activities. They enjoyed what they were doing. This is so very important from the business perspective too. Very often teams that enjoy being with each other and have fun at the workplace excel the most. While this is common sense, we seem to get so involved in the everyday activities that we forget the fun aspect of what we do. My Saturdays at MCA enabled me to bring the fun back into our own office.
2. An Open mind and a clean slate.
Children had a very open mind and hence we saw some very original ideas. Teams of eight were involved in the business of making paper bags. The most creative teams were innovative in choosing smaller bag sizes from the material that was provided. Innovation was the result of keeping an open mind and a clean slate. Always helps if you step out of the business and look at it in an unbiased fashion.
3. Fearless approach.
Teams were not afraid to experiment and risk failure. This was the biggest takeaway and re-enforced the fact that a fearless approach and not giving up always helps.
To summarize, participating in TiE Bizworld as a BizGuru was very important for me as an entrepreneur. It emphasized the importance of having fun, having an open mind and adopting a fearless approach.
Shri Chetanji Thakkar,
ReplyDeleteIts nice to read your perspective on experience gained by U while BizGuru.
In fact, literally it may be Teacher teaching the student or vice-versa. But in my view, teacher and student share their knowledge & experiences within both of them.
In simple statement, its purely the flow of knowledge from one human being to another.
Our education culture has imposed that Teacher who teaches Student.
There is lots of learnings from the students where periodically our education system transforms / enhances its processes. I hope everybody is known of this fact.
The regular transformation & upgradation in education is IMPERATIVE. This is due to basically Flow Of Knowledge.
Rgds,
MRP
Greetings MRP:
ReplyDeleteYou may address me as Chetan. You are right, the flow of knowledge from one human being to the other in order to add value is Teaching. And it is indeed remarkable how the advances in Information Technology aid spreading the knowledge.
Cheers,
- Chetan.