Management, as cliched as it can get, is we all know, both an art and a science. The truth about such things, that are both art and science, is that how much ever scientific you get, you can never substitute an artistic skill. But then science will give you the analytical toolkit that will help you sail through uncertain situations easier than if you believed just in art. An MBA will surely get you one such toolkit, not just for career, even for life. But then I can't vouch for this right now. I don't know if I can vouch for this ever, because life is a complex piece of heavily interrelated connections, that you can't really pin-point the cause-effect relationships so clearly.The last one year was surely exhausting, but never did I've to think if it was all worth, because one, such questions are exclusively patented by the travails of the construct called marriage, and two, the learning more than compensated for any reason that could've made me feel so. It might not be the most politically correct statement to say that this was easily the best way I could've spent this one year, but I think that's almost true.
Every good thing comes to an end and so does every bad thing too. Whatever it is, it's all about to be over. Or is it? With every ending comes a new beginning, isn't it? Before I can find the answer to whether management is an art or a science, I need to find out if life is an art or a science.
The trip is about to be over, but the journey will continue.
...but never did I've to think if it was all worth, because one, such questions are exclusively patented by the travails of the construct called marriage... - now, THAT is a BEAUTIFUL CONSTRUCT :)
ReplyDeleteOf all the complex thoughts behind every sentence in this post, this is my favorite: "I don't know if I can vouch for this ever, life is a complex piece of heavily interrelated connections, that you can't really pin-point the cause-effect relationships so clearly" And may be its because my own thoughts are no different.
ReplyDeleteExtrapolate this same line of thought to usefulness. Almost nothing can be called useless, because its really hard to say something made a zero contribution. And you yourself said this in another post.... "In a way, everything contributes to everything"
Extrapolate this to reward and blame. Anything could have caused something. So its so hard to point at a reason for something, in a way to reward (or blame) someone. And everything contributes to everything. So we can find no single person to blame, for something that goes wrong.
Whats the point of having rights and wrongs now when nothing and no one can own the right or wrong?
And for this single post, I can think so much more. Just about art and science my thoughts will run for pages :-) Who has all the time to sit down and write them down... that too, in an intelligible way?
This comment is over, but my thinking will continue :-)
"Nevertheless, its always nicer when you come and say it" - I've ignored that. But let me answer.
ReplyDeleteLet us correlate this with writing exams and passing. Exam is just one material way to test you. You may know much more than what the exam asks or you may even know more than what was actually covered in the course. Still, everybody has to write the exam and pass it, so that there is some kind of benchmark available for someone outside to know whether you are eligible for something or not. Otherwise, the system can be easily abused by everyone claiming to know everything.
Calling something right or wrong is something like that. We need an abuse-proof system to maintain harmony in a world where there is both good and bad, else the bad will slowly erode good out of the system. Now what is good and what is bad? Ha Ha.