NAVRANG CUBE & ORGANISATIONS

Hello Friends,

I hope you are fine and eager to learn more POM concepts. Today I am going to introduce you to a unique and interesting object, A Navrang Cube. Those who are familiar with Hindi language would find it easy to understand that NAVRANG is formed by two words, 'Nav-' which means 'Nine' and '-Rang' which means 'color'. So, NAVRANG means 'Nine Colours'.

Coming to the significance, let me take you to the class where I was introduced with a NAVRANG cube. As always, Dr Prasad brought a new surprise for us, the cube looked like the one shown below.
But I wondered- What does THIS have to do with Management?

The class began with the prof. throwing dismantled pieces of this cube to students sitting around him. There were 27 Pieces in total. His question was if this particular cube can be formed again, with no color repeating on any side.

'Oh, That would be easy', was my first thought , and the entire class seemed to follow my ideology. Lots of hands rose to accomplish this simple task. Two were chosen and given enough time. But then, they were not able to complete it, in the given time and then gave up. 
The Next part was when Dr. Prasad handled the cube. He seemed to have a structured format and completed it in one third of the given time.

Then he explained that we required to have a structured approach to solve the cube and this is what needs to be done in organisations. One of my friend made a video in English language to demonstrate the same as well.

So what all did we learn from the experience?

Attempt by Student (First time)	Attempt by Professor
A Trial Attempt without preparation	A planned attempt with early preparation
Random Format	Structured Format
Confusions, Uncertain, stressed,	Calm, Simple and Clear flow of ideas
Unrealistic goals set based on excitement	Realistic goals based on experience
Not done even upto 10 Mins	Done within 4 Minutes

Other Principles of Management

• Each Problem can be solved by systematic thinking

• Each Block represents an entity (Labour, Machine etc) in an organization and is to be assembled in a structured and hierarchical way like the above process, so efficiency is maximum

• Two blocks of the same color may represent people who don't gel well with each other. And hence while forming a team, a structured approach is necessary.

This is all for the time.
Keep reading and keep exploring!

And if you want one of such cube, inform me.