How smart are you in judging people by the way they dress up, if you really have any prejudices, you are invited to Morbi. A small town of Saurashtra which has turned into the country’s biggest ceramic manufacturing belt. People here cannot be distinguished by how they look, walk, talk, eat or work. If you don’t believe it then take my words that if you are asked to figure out that who is the MD of a company and who is his driver, 50 percent of the time you will land up selecting the wrong person because law of probability itself says that chances of selecting a wrong event from two similar events is half, yes both the MD and the Driver look alike and in some cases the driver looks even better than the MD. A person reflects a lot about himself by the way he dress up, but for people in Morbi this law does not holds true.
Recently I visited a ceramic plant, I was told by the usher that the owner is busy and will take 10 more minutes, I said ok and waited for him to come, after some time I saw a man approaching, height 5’ 5, uncombed hairs, torn up trousers and shirt with top 4 buttons open, I didn’t paid any notice, but he came and stood exactly in front of me and asked “Kaune madvu che”, I replied “Ramesh Bhai”, he said “Hu Ramesh Bhai Chu”, next word which I spoke was “Sir”, and suddenly a man whom I didn’t even bothered to notice turned into Sir.
Entrepreneurship is an aboriginal rite for the people here. They don’t need a MBA degree, no formal education can teach them how to make money, it’s something which they get as heritage. Isn’t it amazing that without knowing the meaning of profitability they reap huge profits. For almost all the industries here the MD is a person, who is not even a graduate, Technical head of the plant is another man who has learnt to repair motors and breakers by experience, not by any formal education. it’s like a clique of 12 -13 people who contributing 13-14 lakhs each start a ceramic manufacturing unit with a very simple objective of producing nonstop masses of ceramic products. For them it’s as simple as - starting, manufacturing and selling and that’s the end of the road.
Recently I visited a ceramic plant, I was told by the usher that the owner is busy and will take 10 more minutes, I said ok and waited for him to come, after some time I saw a man approaching, height 5’ 5, uncombed hairs, torn up trousers and shirt with top 4 buttons open, I didn’t paid any notice, but he came and stood exactly in front of me and asked “Kaune madvu che”, I replied “Ramesh Bhai”, he said “Hu Ramesh Bhai Chu”, next word which I spoke was “Sir”, and suddenly a man whom I didn’t even bothered to notice turned into Sir.
Entrepreneurship is an aboriginal rite for the people here. They don’t need a MBA degree, no formal education can teach them how to make money, it’s something which they get as heritage. Isn’t it amazing that without knowing the meaning of profitability they reap huge profits. For almost all the industries here the MD is a person, who is not even a graduate, Technical head of the plant is another man who has learnt to repair motors and breakers by experience, not by any formal education. it’s like a clique of 12 -13 people who contributing 13-14 lakhs each start a ceramic manufacturing unit with a very simple objective of producing nonstop masses of ceramic products. For them it’s as simple as - starting, manufacturing and selling and that’s the end of the road.
good learning :) man. This really made me obsessed to meet one of them how can people so simple and enterprising..all life we fear to make first step and bobble ourself of all the thought, why we can not succeed as an enterpreneaur..really intresting land to visit...
ReplyDeleteIf only everyone thought like them, we would have been decades ahead. Good one Mr. CHOM :)
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