“There is a general tendency especially among the intellectual elites to think that IIT and IIM are the cats whiskers and they are doing a great job, right? Sorry Subra our institute is doing a far better job” – so said one person who has been (well almost) responsible for more than 3000 people going […]
In most companies the people at the HO hate the guys who go out and sell. Make no mistake most companies hate the sales guys – employees, agents – are just nomenclatures. By any name they are hated. The company – I mean the ‘HO’ people LOVE the cheques they bring, but hate the sales […]
REPOSTING FROM LAST YEAR…. Immaterial of your age..just go back and see who are the people whom you remember fondly? It is the people who taught you something – a teacher. This teacher could have taken any form. My mother who made me read Ramayana in 3rd standard (in an till then alien language […]
Not sure why..but too many kids who meet me (their parents ask them to talk to me, gutsy parents!) tell me ‘I do not want to do CA, sir’. The reasons are: – it is too tough, and the pass percentage is low – compulsory articles for 3 years is too taxing – attending college, […]
I normally do only subject matter training. This is capital markets, financial planning, etc. etc. However some of this spills into a sales / attitude training too. In the sense that people ask me ‘If the client says….what should I say?’…I realise that selling life insurance or mutual funds is a really taxing and difficult […]
Most of the ‘average’ students today do an MBA and get a degree. Now this could be from a great college, a good college, a bad college or a downright stupid college. Let me tell you the salaries that were being offered for these graduates. It is really appalling. For example I remember that there […]
A friend had gone for an interview and she was asked… Interviewer: Why do you want to do this job? She: I wish to make a career here, learn and serve your customers to the best of my ability….. Interviewer: Bull. Complete bullshit. You need to pay the EMIs..so every morning you will start lying. […]