<It is important to know more about Success Stories which does not always mean high profile stories, but even small successes in our locality, neighborhood, villages or cities. The more we find out about them and get inspired, the better it will be for us to achieve success that might be waiting to come our way. However, we need to make sure discussing Success Stories at regular intervals must have the desired effect of providing inspiration to Goans and not arousing useless emotions like envy and resentment. Success Stories also need to be discussed on a regular basis and projected as role models for our Generation Next to offset the regular media blitz created by present or future politicians, or the so called social workers and what have you, who harpe on their achievements through paid media commercials. In a democratic setup as long as media space is cheap in Goa, these sort off personal advertisements are difficult to stop, but the fallout of these paid commercials, is it confuses Goans the definition of success. Therefore it becomes important to discuss Genuine Success Stories to offset the phony ones. This will help the Generation Next and Goans to differentiate Genuine Success Stories and change their perception towards success.>[Plastino D'Costa]
This is a good idea and should be pursued especially by management educational institutions like Goa University and Goa Institute of Management or even the BBA colleges. A variation on the author's theme of success stories is the management case study. These provide a basis for class discussion by enabling students to put themselves in the shoes of the decision makers involved in the cases. This is a low risk way for students to learn about management. But it may be high cost for the institutions because they have to encourage their faculty to go out into the real world and document salient organisations for such discussion purposes instead of simply relying on lectures of "management principles". The organisations have to give official clearance for the use of internal data and interview material. It is not easy but any B-school worth the name has to engage in this activity. Note that case studies may superficially appear to be "success stories". But delving into the data provided would show the dark side of things too -- in a good case (as opposed to the PR infomercials he mentions).
