This encouraged students to widen the perspective and also to come more prepared just to prove themselves which was well appreciated by him. Post such intense discussion he showed us the image below in which he first focussed only on the input part followed by actions and then the outcome. Post explaining this image; he asked us a straightforward question, “Do you agree with the flow of this diagram?”.
Like every obedient class ever, even our class agreed as we were well convinced about the flow. He then said the golden words which I will never forget throughout my life, “Strategy and life nothing is linear and unidirectional”. No one in our class could comprehend this statement. Later, he went on to justify the comment by various examples which simply put explained that it is not necessary that vision and mission would the input at times, there are cases where strategic competitiveness is also an input. It is then that I realised that linear thinking would more or less result in similar decisions and to get extraordinary results, one has to widen his perspective and think out-of-the-box.
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