MBA Pundit: MBA News, Views and Notes
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The Value of our Values
Popular business ‘gurus’ of today include spiritual components in their seminars. The numerous scams and governance issues have certainly raised questions about priorities and values in life including life at work. Managers who might have been unwilling to discuss anything other than ‘the bottom line’ are now openly talking about spirituality and the ‘value of…
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The 4 Step process in Building a Virtuous Leadership Character
The following tools may help you move from reflection to practical action. It is a four-step approach that is designed to help you as you work through situations that challenge you to act with character and deal with a mismatch in values. It is presented below through a brief illustration. Step 1: The Situation: A…
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How to Choose your Ideal B-School?
Management is about decision-making, they say. Hence the thrust on decision-making in the MBA curriculum. However, even before making it to a B-school, MBA aspirants today must know a thing or two about taking decisions. Take for instance, the dilemma of ‘which institutes to apply to’. The fact that there are more than 1100 B-schools…
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The Ideal Study Environment
Your coördinates in space and time; are you at the right place at the right time; maximise your grasp of all that you learn in the best possible way. “Nothing is impossible for men who are endowed with devotion and enthusiasm. All deeds performed in the right way are bound to be crowned with success.”…
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GRE Student Vs Normal Student – What’s Different?
A GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous. A NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold. A GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. A NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers. A GRE STUDENT : Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any…