Shanti Mantra || Series Model of Connecting People || MECE

 

 ॐ सह नाववतु । सह नौ भुनक्तु ।

सह वीर्यं करवावहै । तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

 

Literal Translation:

 Aum! 

May we (both) be protected; may we (both) be nourished;
May we work together with great energy, May our knowledge be radiant;
May there be no differences or disputes between us
Om, peace (inside), peace (around), peace (between)

 

This verse is special because it is mentioned in four Upanishads (sacred scriptures), which were recollections of sacred (and whispered) teachings from the seers to their students. The secrets whispered are subtle and spoken to listeners that have grasped the foundational thoughts beforehand. 

To minimize these effects and increase the positive effects of Rahu, Shanti mantras have been developed. There are four different types of Shanti mantra:

 1.    Om Dhum Ram Rahave Namah

2.    Om Bhraam Bhreem Bhraum Sah Rahave Namah

3.    Om Raam Rahve Namah

4.     Aum Rang Rahave Namah

Series Model of connecting the components

The Connecting People Intervention is a way of working that helps users of health and social care services to make new social connections beyond these services. Many of its elements can already be found in routine health and social care practice. But its originality lies in utilizing individuals’ strengths to co-produce activities and co-define outcomes. New social connections arise as a bi-product of engaging in this process.

 MECE

Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive

MECE is one principle you must be aware of when preparing for the case interview and joining the consulting industry. The term stands for “Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive” and it is a seminal concept in consulting. Consultants work, eat, drink, and sleep this concept – it’s a must-know for anyone thinking of joining the industry.

So What is MECE..???

 If you have spent any time at all preparing for the case interview, you have become well aware of the frameworks utilized when structuring your approach to the case. Simply put, MECE is a problem-structuring principle that organizes data efficiently and comprehensively by adhering to the following two rules:

 

1.Mutually Exclusive: Identifying blocks of data related to each other that do not overlap.

    For example: imagine you are a consultant and your client is All Foods Corporation. All Foods produces various types of food and is looking for its next hit market category and has hired your consulting firm to figure out which food to produce next.

You huddle with your team and each person is assigned a different type of food – you are assigned to meats, one teammate is assigned to proteins, and another is assigned to steaks. Think of all the confusion, redundant work, and inefficient use of time that would cause!

A better approach would be dividing up into Mutually Exclusive subsets of data, such as meats, grains, and vegetables

2. Collectively Exhaustive: All blocks of data when summed together address the entirety of the problem at hand

For example: Let’s think back to All Foods and the project your team was hired to work on. While meat, grains, and vegetables may be categories that are Mutually Exclusive, they don’t cover all types of food. For instance, which of the three buckets would an apple fall under? Or eggs? The answer is none of them.

If your client expects a thorough investigation of all possibilities, there are certainly other buckets of food that need to be added. You huddle up with your team and decide to divide into six groups: fruit, vegetables, meat/poultry/fish, dairy, grains, and other. Later on as your team presents its deliverable, All Foods is impressed that all the different types of food under the sun have been considered. Your project is on its way to becoming a success!

Thanks!

Vedant Saraf

NITIE Mumbai