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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Occupational Hazard


The phrase “once a cop, always a cop” never made much sense to me. Slowly I am awakening to the reality that this phrase does have some important point to make. Mind gets accustomed to think in a certain way, and it fails to look at reality in any other way

That’s what happens when one is an OB professor. You end up looking at everything from OB perspective and also converting every subject as a derivative of OB. It does not matter whether it is business ethics, international business or emerging market, everything looks like OB.

Whether it is corruption or marital problem, economic crisis or religious fanaticism, your analysis and conclusions are based only on OB concepts. Eyes see nothing more and mind remembers nothing else, you end up with one way track. I became aware of this illness only after making an attempt to teach International Business. After the class, I was just reflecting what the hell I was teaching. To my horror I realized that it was just another class from OB.

Either I am an expert or just a bluff master. History will make the final judgment (as if history has no other business to do except passing judgements). I think it is high time that I stop teaching OB and forget about Freud and his gang. And venture into some other subject altogether.

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