Well, not all endings are as happy as you daydream about them. It happened with me as well. But none the less, it is a success story. It started with the fifth semester of my engineering. Like most students, I joined coaching classes for preparation. Like most engineers, strong at quant. I was weak in verbal, perhaps from my schooldays. I had scored 67/100 […]

We reached ESSCA and the first session was from ESSCA director who told norms and rules and she is dynamic lady whose session motivated me to explore more. We had three subjects and one project to be done. Professors always encourage people who gave valid answer to their question by giving students extra points. I […]

What has stagnated Indian companies and managers across the last 6 decades of corporate India’s quest for excellence? Was there a genuine quest in the first place? Is it the inability to balance innovation and invention? Is it the inability to balance Jugaad on one side and neatly maintained, accountability oriented processes and performance measures […]

And that good news came. Out of 42 months, we can do industrial training in last 9 months. I opted for that opportunity. Had a hang of the financial markets in the free time. Sounded interesting. So wanted to do something in that area. The resume was good. So didnt find it difficult to get […]

There was a light in the end of the tunnel. If not IIT, I had a go at ICAI. Registered for the first level of chartered accountancy exam. Okay, great. Still no IIM dreams yet. My image of commerce requiring lesser studies crashed. Now I had to work hard. The best thing was I was […]

 Always had a dream to write on this sacrosanct thread. So much so that, I wanted to convert a good B-School so that I write on the thread. It will be more of, what I want to say about my life rather than just CAT, as CAT formed just a little part of life. (I […]

Sales Management Originally sales management referred to direction for sales force personnel, but has gradually succeeded in gaining a significant position in today’s world. Every firm has certain goals and targets to achieve, such as sales volume, market share, and growth in terms of profits while all the functions are important the goals relating sales […]

What is it that makes competition so exciting and fierce? Is it the human obsession to get the best or simply the race that everyone is part of, by default? Intriguing questions indeed. But what is more worrisome is that the competition has somewhat diluted the focus and the reason as to WHY we were […]

XLRI’s decision to make the OMR sheets public is a turning step for MBA in India. For a while now, MBA entrance exams have attracted  a fair share of heart burn among candidates. Be it ‘time-worn’ issues like the never-to-be understood normalisation process or just the always unanswered questions about wrong ‘questions.’   In some […]

PIs as these are referred to as, are a different ball game. Here, the spotlight is solely on you -any apparent strength may be probed, any apparent weakness might be looked at closely. Interviewers will likely evaluate you on the following four criteria: Academic and work career: The breadth and depth of your educational background […]