Goal setting: Set your sights for success in MBA-entrance
It is not just the football players who rush towards goals. It is their focus and their unflinching sights on the goal that spells success in the sweetest possible way. The same principle applies to students and MBA-aspirants too. Goal-setting makes a lot of sense and it is vital to understand its dynamics properly. Goals...
Is MBA only for males?
When Nancy Reagan said: “A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water”, she was not much off the mark. If an MBA and the career options after it are tough, women are tougher! So whoever says that an MBA is not...
Do not fear failure!
CAT aspirants need to work hard and at the same time need to keep failure at an arm’s length. Fear of failure blocks the good effects of hard work. What is Fear? It is a noun denoting a painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension;...
Student success and bumpers!
Bumpers in a bowling alley help in telling us a lot about our playing skills. They protect and they also tell us the direction in which the throw must go to prevent any failure moments. Life too has its bumpers. They are just as vital for students and those who wish to achieve anything. The...
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...
