Hi kids of the graduating batch of 2013! There are certain things that I ‘forgot’ to tell you in 2011. It is also called ‘suppresso veri’ – well it is a legal language to mean ‘hiding of the truth’ but my job did not allow me to tell you the following. The following is also […]
Many young people I know have got into their MBA schools and should be joining soon…so here is a note addressed to them… Hi Children! Congrats on getting into your MBA school. I am not making a distinction between a full time MBA, an executive MBA, a 2 year course or a 1 year course. […]
Well this is not really about me quitting teaching, but somebody else. However I also quit teaching after teaching for just 20 hours in an MBA school. I vowed that I will NEVER go back to that school. Then I said I will never go back to teaching a full course. A single lecture is […]
It is generally believed that all the MBAs that you recruit come with great communication skills – but may lack in depth knowledge. Experience has taught me one thing. You cannot draw conclusions based on one or two students or colleagues. To draw a conclusion, you need a huge, huge database across genders, medium of […]
A few days back I did a story on what they do not teach at an MBA school…here is one more story. Happened to a CA friend – let us call him RJ. He was considered to be the ‘finance head’ of the business – but he was still a rookie and needless to say […]
The MBA must be a very good degree – there is so much demand and so many colleges are creating them! I am sure all of you MBAs who are reading this will agree I have never spoken about the degree…well, there is always a first time! There are some brilliant solutions that I have […]