"Passion, creativity, and resilience are the most crucial skills in business. If you’ve got those, you’re ready to embark on the journey." - Jo Malone, Founder of Jo Malone
If ambition and passion were two Venn diagrams, a popular notion is that in a B-School, the two never intersect. So when you convert a call, you hear a myriad of “Congratulations!”, albeit with a clause. This clause hints at you having to put aside your hobbies; your passion, and dedicate all of your existence to your B-School in the most celibate fashion.
This article is for all the people who are lost in the promise of endless opportunities and are trying to figure how to make the best of their time at a B-school.
After all the tough times, sleepless nights solving the multiple aptitude books and mocks, memorising and revising the vocabulary and formula, clearing CAT or XAT or the numerous other entrance exams and then clearing those nerve-wracking GDs and interview. Finally, you make it to the B-School of your dreams!
Dr. R. Sesha Iyer, Faculty at SPJIMR Mumbai, was recently voted by the students of SPJIMR Mumbai as the InsideIIM Professor of The Year! He was kind enough to answer a set of questions we posed to him around his experiences as a Professor at one of India’s top B-schools, teaching some of the brightest minds in the country. Here is what Dr. Iyer has to say –
I still distinctly remember the tension and nervousness in the room. Participants were staring at each other, hoping that it would be their team that would clinch the title. It was the moment we were waiting for - announcement of the winners. The next thing I remember is my team screaming with joy.
Coming to IIM-K with great trepidation, the institute was an enigma for me. Countless stories and anecdotes from friends and acquaintances painted a picture of a place so beautiful, yet exhausting; so collaborative yet competitive. On reaching the Kampus, I could subdue all the canned thoughts and buck fever, for the Kampus is exceedingly great for its zealous surfeit of wisdom and beyond. The very first ground rule in IIM-K is that everything is K and K is everything, right from the Kampus to Konquest to Konsult. The lush greenery of Kampus spreads over 100 acres on two hillocks, and we live literally among the clouds. Every day we are used to waking up to these views...
