Storm the MBA entrance through intuition!
Can B-schools include a module on “How to be a trailblazer”? Can inspiration be deconstructed, set to an algorithm and thus made repeatable? Is there a management term for ‘sixth sense’? All my mêlée here in this article is in essence a return to an age old debate on the innate variance of management education....
Good Mentors Mean Good Results
“My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.” said Emerson, Ralph Waldo, a famous American essayist and one of America’s most influential thinkers and writers. Right from infancy and at any stage in life one would be completely lost without guidance. Guidance from the right people and at...
CAT-A-LOGUE 2007 – write-up.
A dialogue is the beginning point of all successes! That is the reason for the mammoth popularity of CAT-A-LOGUE. This mega event that is conducted at all the centres of PT is distinctive in its flavour and success. With a totally-engrossed, involved, focussed, and clearly upbeat student audience, this event surely is a feather in...
Anything is possible!
Do I hear you say, “It is easy said then done?” If that is the case then let us share with you a small but important story by Lisa N. Redavid. Read the story and let the elements in it slowly pervade your senses. That in itself will make you think of the possibilities that...
Education is the nursery for tomorrow
It is the uneducated mind and a personality that lacks a coherent direction that tends to seek terror as its anchor. But I am not talking of terror as a political weapon or as some act that will make it to the headlines as an agent of destruction. Terror stalks only when the finer portals...
Paddle with the Current
Thoreau wrote: “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” A couple of years ago, while my husband and I were on vacation,...
Passion brings out the best in us
Passion is the fact that brings out the best in us. Aristotle wrote: ‘All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.’ Passion is not very difficult to define. It is clearly about two words “I can”. If reaching the top is the aim, then...
Life’s Momentum
Have you ever seen the clouds? What will happen if they always have the same shape and are always in the same place? Richard Bach rightly said that ‘if perfection is stagnation, then heaven is a swamp!’ Change and momentum give life to living. There are three keys to creating unstoppable momentum in your life....
Step into the IIM of your choice!
Performance is the doorway to results. If you wish to MBA your dreams, the day to give your best performance has been decided. The door which opens to the world of fame, recognition and success is awaits your knock. Yes, we are talking about CAT 2006 which is a dream of all those who’ll be...
The DNA of Personality
Jean Piaget wrote: “The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive, and discover.” It is important to lay emphasis on activities that add value to learning. The academic pursuit of a student must...
Success through analytical and calculation skills
‘CAT 2006’ notification is out and once again CAT has changed its colour. This time the most prestigious management entrance exam is going to be of 2½ hrs with some more minor changes like percentage criteria in graduation etc. One goes to the extent of saying it is the most prestigious exam, and enough evidence...
