Learning Management from Gita: Observe closely the various events you experience at work.

Maintain an e-diary of events that has brought a change in your response behavior , as a result of
learning from Gita propositions. (detailed guidelines are attached hereby).

Towards Managerial Effectiveness

PGEMP 36
Learning Management from Bhagavad-Gita
Off Campus Assignment (e-diary)

Weekly Reflections on TME

Step 1 – Please recall the incidences or events which you experience. List them.

Step 2 – Context in which you remember them.

Step 3 – Observe the impact it had on you, what would be your usual way of thinking.

Step 4 – List them to any of the learning/propositions from Gita (i.e. from Inadequacy to
Attitude to Results)

Step 5 – How has the learning from Gita changed your response to the incident/ incidences and
have resulted in increasing professional effectiveness?

Week Incident Context in which I Usual way of Learning Change in my

No./ remember it thinking from Gita response
Date:

Keep a diary in this format from Week 1 to Week 7

You may record minimum 7 professional incidences.

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Week
Context in which I
No. Incident Usual way of thinking Learning from Gita Change in my response
remember it

I was constantly
after one of my
Directives from MD I would have been I realized that I have to do
counterparts
was to save every complacent and may not justice to the work I do and
planner to work
penny for the have taken an extra step Duty above every hence tried to convince my
1 together on the
company in the crisis to convince my thing counterpart through mails
proposal which
time and when the counterpart to work on and telephonic discussion
has a potential
market is low the proposal and regular followups.
saving of Rs 50
lacs.

Supplier was demanding a

payment term which was
I was involved in
This proposal was a not as per the standard
the negotiation
part of the project guideline of the company.
of a high value I would have done
that is scheduled o However we negotiated
proposal negotiation in a regular
be launched next that if the price is brought
approximately fashion without applying
year and project Objective mind down by certain amount
2 worth 6 cr deal much of the financial
manager had a clear with a purpose may be we can give him the
and could get a calculation which could
cut guideline to not payment term he is
savings of 20 % have resulted in 10%
exceed the project demanding. We had already
on the deal ~12% savings.
cost under any done our calculation and
which is
circumstance. found that we can get
substantial.
additional 8% benefit out of
it.

Learning from Gita was an

eye opener for me that no
I was asked by
At present external work is big and small and
my boss to take I could have rejected and
hiring of the equal weightage should be
up certain job refused to do the work
3 company has been Dignity of Labour given to each and every
that was clerical under normal
stopped due to work and one should take
in nature for a circumstances
financial pressures. pride in doing anything and
time being.
everything so long it is in
the benefit of the mankind.
 Recently my
colleague was a
I realized that I have the
part of the Cross
I was helping my capability and potential to
member team I would have told him to
colleague even suggest some ideas where
working with find out the solution
4 though it had nothing a contributor savings on the capital front
external himself and that I don’t
to do with the can occur. This will be
consultant to have time to get involved
responsibility. beneficial for my colleague
reduce the
as well as for the company
capital spent by
the company

A couple of
weeks back we
were having our
mid term review
of budgeting. As
the company is
going through a Directives from MD I could have dropped the I analyzed the cases deeply
bad phase, every was to save every proposal easily on the and concluded that the
Ability to make a
department was penny for the pretex that at present we proposals are very much
5 choice.
asked to curtail company in the crisis have to do away with it, required and will benefit
the Budget. But time and when the as we don’t have money the company in the long
some of the market is low to spent run.
proposal were of
utmost
important and
cannot be
dropped. I was in
the dilemma.

The job was time critical

I along with one
and if the feedback didn’t
of my friends The outcome of the
Leave the things to the reach the supplier on time
cum colleague work was to shared
supplier and come back Purpose/Mission we could have lost 2 days in
6 worked through with the supplier as
the next day to check on the process. We had set
all the three supplier was having
the things our goals and willing to
shifts to finish a weely off there after.
stretch any length to
critical task
achieve the set targets.

I was given a I knew, I was able to

project of I could have started completed almos 80% of
renovation of my I had to struggle for claiming that I have done the work, but had my
7 work place. It 10 days in finalizing all the work as I was the Humility colleague not taken the
was proposal everything project manager for that initiative, it would have got
worth 40 lacs. I project. delayed by a week time. I
had to generate thanked my colleague in
various option as
to how the
sitting
arrangement
and ergonomics
should be. After
finalizing the front of our boss as well as
design and the team for being such a
supplier, I went support for me.
for a leave of 5 Success, however small,
days during feels greater if shared by
which one of my the others who deserved,
colleagues took than claimed by an
the lead in individual.
executing the
project which
got executed
very well on time
within the
allocated budget