Top blogs on a range of interesting topics.
It’s amazing! A billion Indians with all our cultural, religious and linguistic differences can still communicate with each other with relative ease. The mixing of languages, words and accents, though hilarious at times, is something we’ve grown to accept. Without realising it, we use arts, sports, and business as the common medium to connect with … Read more
Here’s an interesting phenomenon. After cracking some of the toughest entrance exams in India (JEE, CAT etc) you’d assume that it would be smooth sailing for the best talent in the country. Many would believe, life after MBA should be cool. An IIT BTech degree or an IIM MBA should be enough to get you … Read more
Family business management in India has it’s own unique set of challenges, succession planning being one of top ones. The other being in the area of human resources. Employees working in family business will constantly have the temptation to leave and join a mainstream corporate environment where the work culture and incentives are a little … Read more
No matter what you think about your boss, as long as you are getting your salary from a corporate account, your boss is your God. Which also means that your efforts to please your boss need to get more sophisticated as you move up the corporate ladder. What do we mean by that? Any guesses?
For the uninitiated, no, this is not a crude attempt to re-invent the Latin script. As most of you would have guessed, this is a graphic representation of the 16 Myers-Briggs Type Indicatory (MBTI) psychological types. The relevance of psychology is evident in anything and everything we do; definitely to our work and team environments … Read more
Continuing in the tradition of this series, but getting into the more complex realm, in this post we will talk about leadership and some of the best leadership books that can help you on the journey. There are myriad ways of attempting to define leadership, no one approach is necessarily better than the other. I … Read more
We published an article earlier focusing on the dilemma of an MBA after marriage. In it we talked about what might happen if a husband OR a wife decide to take a sabbatical. Towards the end we promised an even more interesting story of an Indian couple who put in (independent) MBA applications together. When … Read more
Most assume that it’ll be smooth sailing once they get an admit. But the F1 visa process cannot be taken for granted. Here’s Abhijit’s (name changed) F1 visa rejection story that tells us – It ain’t over till it’s over. He had excellent corporate brands on his resume. He applied to a reputed MBA program. … Read more
Most MBA applicants aiming for the regular 2 year MBA programs finish their MBA before marriage. When you are single, life isn’t as complex. But if you are among the few lurking on our website looking for GMAT tips or MBA admissions advice, chances are you have reached the age where your parents / society, … Read more
Curious to know about MBA campus life, after ISB Hyderabad admissions are over and a few fortunate folks head over to the Gachibowli or Mohali campus? From day one to the day, that the exciting news of placements hits the newspapers, there’s a lot of action going on. MG, one of the best MBA consultants … Read more
You might have heard about psychometric tests when you were applying for your first job. If you haven’t, fret not. Unless you are the monogamous, one-job-for-life kinda person, you’ll have many opportunities to experience the joys of tackling psychometric tests in one form or another. You may have wondered what it is about these mind-numbing … Read more
As a manager, you might think you are at the top of the game. But many ambitious managers in your situation are not content with the pace at which things are moving. They are signing up for the best executive MBA programs in the world in order to keep the career graph growing. They aren’t … Read more