Before your mind starts wandering, it would do a deal of good to know that S.H.I.T actually stands for Some How In Time. Now doesn’t that sound like a quality of a good manager “Some How In Time" ( though the acronym sucks ). This was perfectly executed to the last bit during our term papers and I can safely bet that you cant find a better person than me to tell you best about this philosophy.
To start with, this philosophy is as old as the evolution of man and needs no introduction. The perils associated with it are abound but then nothing thrills you more than the joy of doing things in the last moment. To tell you more on this I'd like to describe how we completed our term papers. Though all of them strictly followed S.H.I.T, I'd like to describe one incident where we raised our limits of S.H.I.T to a newer height ….. None of our teammates has an idea as to how to start and go about doing the term papers but somehow we end up being successful in putting all the pieces together some how in time. The best part was our Marketing Presentations where I didn’t have a clue as to what we were to present on that day.
Actually one of my teammates had prepared it and the rest of us knew as much as you'd know about it :P. We reached there 3hrs earlier and we rightly got our presentation scheduled in the last slot so that we could or rather I could sometime to go through my part of the presentation. Now while I was going through it, I found that most of the guys had some bundles of paper in their hands which infact were some survey forms of their presentation. And obviously it turns out to be that ours was the only team which didn’t have a survey report of our presentation. By that time i could make out that we were giving a presentation on the "Indian Music CD Industry and their Marketing Approach" .
It didn’t take me more than a minute to visualize the aftermath when we our prof. would come to know that we didn’t do a survey in our term paper. Future beckoned and before my teammates realized what was happening I was almost done with the survey form . We got the forms printed and xeroxed and circulated the forms in the class while the other presentations were going on. I managed to get about 30 forms filled by my classmates and had to rely on my calligraphy skills to fill up the rest. That was a tough task specially when you need to take care of using different pens with different ink.
But then again finally we did manage it.... Some How In Time.
So, three cheers to S.H.I.T
Disclaimer : Anyone interested in following the above philosophy can do so at their own risk. No one specially the author cant be held liable for any unfavorable consequences as he's too busy to deal his own consequences.
