FLY-BY-NIGHT
This is the story of Mr. Ranjan Parthasarathi. The teacher who is still in search of his students.
Albeit, the 'ideal' ones!
Ranjan, taught in a regular college the Marketing subject for nearly ten years. During all those years, his major complaint was, that the students no more respected their professors the way they did in his good-old-days. "I think, I am wasting my talents out here; these 'kids' don't appreciate my worth," he would regret. "I must teach in a proper Management School."
He did. However, just within two years, he was fed up with the 'attitude' of this I-know-all breed. He resigned, and did not work any where for a few months.
A tiger can never change his stripes. Can a teacher?. Ranjan was sure, by now, that his real teaching and training talents would be valued nowhere else other than in a Corporate set up. He, thus, began running around, aggressively pursuing his goal. Before long, he was handling half-a-dozen lucrative assignments. He travelled extensively, stayed and dined in fine hotels, all as part of his hefty fee-package. Still, his mind continued to be haunted by the same old ghosts. Ranjan was fed up, again.
"They are not at all interested. The Companies want to do the training programmes, because they have to; it's mandatory for them as per certain norms. The employees attend them, because they, too, have to; it's mandatory for their survival in the corporate rat race," Ranjan cntinued to vent out his frustration. "You get a stinking feeling, when you conduct your programmes, that they are there not for learning any new - life or work - skills, but for fun ... on a paid-holiday!"
This time around, Ranjan's frustration is even more. He is equally fed up with the attitude of the Management. "We are disposables ... They use and throw us. If you go, some one else is already waiting there out side their door. There is no respect for learning, for teachers. Loyalty is an old-fashioned idea, here. It is all so skin-deep ... Every one here is a fly-by-night wheeler dealer ... It is all Bang, Bang thank you ma'am."
Evidently, it has gone beyond the boiling point!
So, now what, Mr. Ranjan Parthasarathi - 'the highly-sought-after Management Guru' ... 'the Master Motivator of the Corporate world'...? Yes, now what?
Books? DVDs? Films? Or, a new chain of Business Schools ... with all those fly-by-night professors?
How about a much-deserved holiday with family? Of course, a self-paid one. Perhaps, you may choose to 'fly by night' to cut on the cost.
By the by, the students may appear ... when the teacher is ready!
GERALD D'CUNHA
Albeit, the 'ideal' ones!
Ranjan, taught in a regular college the Marketing subject for nearly ten years. During all those years, his major complaint was, that the students no more respected their professors the way they did in his good-old-days. "I think, I am wasting my talents out here; these 'kids' don't appreciate my worth," he would regret. "I must teach in a proper Management School."
He did. However, just within two years, he was fed up with the 'attitude' of this I-know-all breed. He resigned, and did not work any where for a few months.
A tiger can never change his stripes. Can a teacher?. Ranjan was sure, by now, that his real teaching and training talents would be valued nowhere else other than in a Corporate set up. He, thus, began running around, aggressively pursuing his goal. Before long, he was handling half-a-dozen lucrative assignments. He travelled extensively, stayed and dined in fine hotels, all as part of his hefty fee-package. Still, his mind continued to be haunted by the same old ghosts. Ranjan was fed up, again.
"They are not at all interested. The Companies want to do the training programmes, because they have to; it's mandatory for them as per certain norms. The employees attend them, because they, too, have to; it's mandatory for their survival in the corporate rat race," Ranjan cntinued to vent out his frustration. "You get a stinking feeling, when you conduct your programmes, that they are there not for learning any new - life or work - skills, but for fun ... on a paid-holiday!"
This time around, Ranjan's frustration is even more. He is equally fed up with the attitude of the Management. "We are disposables ... They use and throw us. If you go, some one else is already waiting there out side their door. There is no respect for learning, for teachers. Loyalty is an old-fashioned idea, here. It is all so skin-deep ... Every one here is a fly-by-night wheeler dealer ... It is all Bang, Bang thank you ma'am."
Evidently, it has gone beyond the boiling point!
So, now what, Mr. Ranjan Parthasarathi - 'the highly-sought-after Management Guru' ... 'the Master Motivator of the Corporate world'...? Yes, now what?
Books? DVDs? Films? Or, a new chain of Business Schools ... with all those fly-by-night professors?
How about a much-deserved holiday with family? Of course, a self-paid one. Perhaps, you may choose to 'fly by night' to cut on the cost.
By the by, the students may appear ... when the teacher is ready!
GERALD D'CUNHA
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