Mr. Vikash Thakur, Consultant at SKP Consulting, addressed IIM Indore, Mumbai Campus participants on 28th February. Mr. Thakur is an IIM Indore alumnus and has 5+ years of work experience in consulting domain.
‘Modern’ finance has evolved to such complexity that at the height of the frenzy that caused the financial crisis of 2008 there were only a handful professionals who actually knew how a ‘particular’ financial instrument worked, whereas the investors who held them didn't bothered about.
Charles Darwin had said that only the fittest will be able survive in this world. The question is who is the fittest. If we consider competition among human beings themselves, the meaning of "fittest" has changed multiple times. In prehistoric times men with supreme physical strength used to be the fittest. Coming closer this notion of physical strength has given away to the notion of possession of intelligence and resources. Resources which make a person/country superior to its counter parts. Technology today has a big part to play in the same. But is it required? Is it desirable? Like everything it has its pros and cons.
It’s crazy how quickly we pick up things and make it a part of our lingo, and sometimes our lives. Take the ‘mauka mauka’ commercials for example. We cannot watch a cricket match without them. They’re hilarious. I can’t write this without humming ‘mauka mauka’ and I bet neither can you read this is without humming ‘mauka mauka’. Stupid isn’t it? We enjoy it nevertheless.
Having gone through a multitude of articles giving advice on CAT preparation or Life at a B-school or mundane musings about life in general, I didn't want to follow the herd. So I just wrote on the first thing that popped into my mind.
After cracking what is considered to be one of the most challenging entrance exams, The CAT, a thought crosses every person’s mind - Is that an end or just the beginning? What should be the next steps? Is there any success mantra that one needs to follow for the next two years?
Being an MBA in the making from a premier b-school is not an easy life to live. Expectations from family and friends run sky high. They look forward to a glorious transformation their son/daughter/friend will undergo while living within those proverbial four walls of the b-school. Seldom are they disappointed. Studying with a motley crowd in a b-school has its own advantages. Working in a group not only helps in understanding oneself better but also helps in knowing varied approaches to accomplish the same task.
It isn’t unheard of, when we seek astrologers for choosing auspicious dates for various commencements, naming a child or matching horoscopes for matrimony. But of late, we have discarded astrology as archaic, irrelevant and unimportant. We cringe at our belief in something as rudimentary. (Or is it?) But how is economics even remotely related to astrology?
Mr. Vikash Thakur, Consultant at SKP Consulting, addressed IIM Indore, Mumbai Campus participants on 28th February. Mr. Thakur is an IIM Indore alumnus and has 5+ years of work experience in consulting domain.
‘Modern’ finance has evolved to such complexity that at the height of the frenzy that caused the financial crisis of 2008 there were only a handful professionals who actually knew how a ‘particular’ financial instrument worked, whereas the investors who held them didn't bothered about.
Charles Darwin had said that only the fittest will be able survive in this world. The question is who is the fittest. If we consider competition among human beings themselves, the meaning of "fittest" has changed multiple times. In prehistoric times men with supreme physical strength used to be the fittest. Coming closer this notion of physical strength has given away to the notion of possession of intelligence and resources. Resources which make a person/country superior to its counter parts. Technology today has a big part to play in the same. But is it required? Is it desirable? Like everything it has its pros and cons.
It’s crazy how quickly we pick up things and make it a part of our lingo, and sometimes our lives. Take the ‘mauka mauka’ commercials for example. We cannot watch a cricket match without them. They’re hilarious. I can’t write this without humming ‘mauka mauka’ and I bet neither can you read this is without humming ‘mauka mauka’. Stupid isn’t it? We enjoy it nevertheless.
Having gone through a multitude of articles giving advice on CAT preparation or Life at a B-school or mundane musings about life in general, I didn't want to follow the herd. So I just wrote on the first thing that popped into my mind.
After cracking what is considered to be one of the most challenging entrance exams, The CAT, a thought crosses every person’s mind - Is that an end or just the beginning? What should be the next steps? Is there any success mantra that one needs to follow for the next two years?
Being an MBA in the making from a premier b-school is not an easy life to live. Expectations from family and friends run sky high. They look forward to a glorious transformation their son/daughter/friend will undergo while living within those proverbial four walls of the b-school. Seldom are they disappointed. Studying with a motley crowd in a b-school has its own advantages. Working in a group not only helps in understanding oneself better but also helps in knowing varied approaches to accomplish the same task.
It isn’t unheard of, when we seek astrologers for choosing auspicious dates for various commencements, naming a child or matching horoscopes for matrimony. But of late, we have discarded astrology as archaic, irrelevant and unimportant. We cringe at our belief in something as rudimentary. (Or is it?) But how is economics even remotely related to astrology?
