FOUR CORNERS OF THE CIRCLE

The real purpose of Four Corners of the Circle (FCOC) is to help its readers to grow in career aspects. One cannot achieve this growth without sustained effort and hard-work. And such hard work should have a direction. One might put in a lot of efforts but still get disappointed at the end as these efforts were not made in the right direction. For example; you sit entire day with your textbook and yet unable to comprehend a single concept at the end of the day. Result - You know your subject, its contents but are unable to write during the examination. Will hours of study without concentration yield any results? Rather than this, if you study even a few concepts thoroughly, you can fetch good marks in the examination. It is always quality that matters, quantity without quality is useless. FCOC will teach us why such problems occur and how to tackle them. Now think about these subjects: Production Management, Operational Management, Shop-floor data collection and training. These subjects are not much in demand in the market scenario today. They fail to attract attention as compared to other subjects. People find them boring. An ambitious entrepreneur would always gain an extra edge over others by doing things which others fail to do. He would know what others do not know. This way he would become a master of his field. FCOC will teach us why and how to derive interest for these subjects. Ever did we wonder, why we still remember our nursery rhymes like Twinkle Twinkle…, Humpty Dumpty… or Little Tea Pot…? Being a kid, it was surely not easy for us to learn these poems by heart. The way our parents and teachers explained every word in detail with examples and actions, we developed a keen interest in learning them. Their teaching methodologies helped us to grasp our nursery rhymes in such a way that most of us still remember them by heart. One must understand each concept in depth, inch by inch and line by line. That is the right way of learning. Mugging up might help initially but eventually it might prove to be deceiving. A slip of a single word in the exam or a twist on the question makes you forget the entire answer. Thus, you will end up spoiling your exam. Through FCOC, we have initiated a small effort to encourage trainers to follow more distinguished teaching methods. It focuses on the fact that teaching is not a business and one must not choose this profession if he only intends to make money out of it. A teacher is a salesman. He is delivering his services at the cost of customer satisfaction. Customers are his students and if they are satisfied then they will take an interest in the subject. They would learn concepts in a better and quicker way. FCOC does not support that a trainer/teacher should not make a profit by delivering his services to his trainees/students. It just believes that he/she is a nation-builder and should focus on the overall development of an individual. Last but not the least, in the practical arena FCOC relates to any serviceman delivering his services to his customers/clients. The way a service provider convinces his customers to avail his services or products depend on his marketing skills, techniques and choosing the right audience for that particular product or service. At the same time, the customers/clients should also make the right judgement. Following the crowd or purchasing any product without doing an analysis whether the product meets their requirements is a blunder. The seller or a service provider cannot be blamed in such a situation. Self education and awareness is must for customers to be able to select the correct service, product or a career path. A mutual trust should exist between the teacher and the student on the basis of which both of them could give the best of their potential. Most of us are already aware of the things spoken about in this book but how many of us implement them? We somewhere inside know where we went wrong or if we are still going on a wrong track but we are unable to gain courage to correct ourselves. Only if someone pokes us, we realize that we need to mend our ways. This book is your friend and a true well wisher. It helps you to do self introspection, realize your dreams and how should to make them come true. After reading it, you would feel like taking some resolutions and would like to adhere to them.