Random Thoughts

There is only one thing which is worse than being put in a Nazi concentration camp, and that is to sit through an SFI class. those 70 minutes are absolute torture, and they are complete proof that extreme boredom can kill you. the moment the professor starts to speak you start looking at the wall clock, hoping that perhaps looking at it will make it blush and it will start to run faster. but no !!! all your effort, all your attention goes totally in vain. the only way to survive is to take your mind elsewhere. you try to do that, but the brain also gets so chocked by the global things being spoken by the prof that it also refuses to move. finally 70 minutes get over, and you start congratulating yourself on living to see another day. but there is one positive side to it, however, though it is sarcastic. this class should be attended by everybody who doesn't have a science background or wants a proof of the Einstein's relativity theory. time moves so slowly that you start to wonder if Einstein also had to sit through any such class to get inspiration for this theory.

here i am putting some lines and/or phrasesthat were said by the prof. i hope that even reading them will make you sick and you will start feeling some sympathy for those poor souls who actually have to listen to them.

1. competitive convergence

2.achieving organizational fit through moving from strategic drift to strategic renewal.

3.we should always try to achieve symphony instead of cacophony.

4.a firm envisions its future by defining its BHAG - Big Hairy Audacious Goals.

5. Envisioned future has three components:
what
when
where
"what" is the most important one.

6.you should rather have a positive BHAG than a negative BHAG.

7. a business model is not about making money, instead it is about defining the mission and
achieving the vision.

8.strategy is not a single-layered birthday cake, instead it should be prepared as one prepares a
multi-layered wedding cake.

9. theory of busines rests on the top of a pyramid whose components are:
theory of business
business model
strategy formulation
strategy translation
strategy communication
strategy implementation
strategy initiatives
individual initiatives
strategic outcomes

for me, these jargons are as familiar as a greek song. i don't care if the pyramid of the theory of business is inverted. in fact i don't even care for this stupid theory.