Thinking through...

Another amazing Finance Class happened today. Man! Our professor for this term was truly awesome. Today was the last day of classes for the second term and we have the weekend to prepare for the end term. I have a lot of catching up to do and this therefore promises to be a short post...

During the Finance Class today, we were discussing some complex concepts and the professor did an amazing job of guiding us through the concepts... He is fond of the words "Run the logic on _____ situation ". He makes us think logically through the steps that are involved in an action. Invaluable I would say. The problem however lies in building rigour into your thinking process so that you do not make mistakes or skip any steps while conceptualising a problem. There is a good chance that you will come up with the wrong solutions or conclusions otherwise. What is required for this? Well, apart from the gift of good brains (so often taken for granted, yet so invaluable to success), it requires logical thinking and phenomenal concentration. I mean, if you have to really conceptualise at that level, you must be able to shut out all external influences (believe me , our class gets quite noisy at times :-)), and then take a thought process to its logical conclusion...

As managers of the future, I believe we all have a responsibility to ourselves to develop this wonderful habit .... Not an easy task though. It requires a lot of trials and frustrations (as if we do not have enough frustrations already)... But then as Churchill once said,
"Success is the ability to move from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"

:-))