An MBA from a top university can make a massive difference in your career and personal life. You become more insight-driven and can handle a vast number of responsibilities at the workplace. The skills transferred from your MBA degree are invaluable as they help you develop your overall approach towards working in your desired field.
Be clear about the purpose and everything else will be taken care of.
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." ~ ARISTOTLE
The alarm goes off at 7:00 in the morning as you frantically battle with sleep. You haven’t had the luxury of a good night’s sleep for weeks and there you go again, faced with another demanding day filled with things you would have never imagined yourself doing in a single day. You somehow rush through things and barely make it to the first lecture and thus the cycle begins. Lectures, cold calls, assignments, readings, quizzes, meetings and presentations engulf you from all the sides and just as you catch your breath, its night again. Though one knows the value that an MBA adds to one’s profile in terms of knowledge and exposure, hectic times and all the chaos can make one wonder what’s really happening. There are times when I have asked myself “What am I here for? Is this really what I wanted to get into?” However, soon you realise that MBA is not just about getting the requisite knowledge and skills but its more about internalising the lifestyle and work pattern. A b-school not only provides you with the required education but it also simulates the entire experience to prepare you well for your future responsibilities. Here’s how it made a difference in my case:
Well, we all have heard people say that “Leaders are born, not made.” Cannot say that we all agree to it because even if you are born with the right instincts, it is training that helps to use them wisely and natural talent can always be made to look better by following best practices. Currently, MBA seems to be the most potent professionally designed curriculum to learn the art of leadership and develop traits of administration that usually forms the blueprint to successful careers. We have tried to list the top 5 reasons to making MBA from the right institution a worthy pursuit are as follows:
This post is not for the weak. It's probably going to confuse you to a lot and you might hate me for that. Though it's my personal opinion but something needs to be said and I am just going to say it.
In the days after CAT, I read a lot of nonfiction to cover up my opinions with relevant facts. Facts, which were useless, when all you needed was to convince them of your convictions by answering the same question repeatedly.
The title might give you a feeling that it’s New Year’s eve, well it’s not and the fact that what you read in the incoming lines might actually connect with a very few who have gone through the experience I describe but I sure tell you that this piece might answer the quintessential question that grapples possibly every MBA aspirant who plans to put his/her 2 precious life years and a whole lot more to opt for something they call MBA. The question which I’m referring to is, yes some of you guessed it right, “Why MBA after all” and regardless of the fact that I’m only a half MBA yet with a whole lot coming my way in the year to come, I surely can do some justice to answering the question with a fairly unbiased conviction.
An MBA from a top university can make a massive difference in your career and personal life. You become more insight-driven and can handle a vast number of responsibilities at the workplace. The skills transferred from your MBA degree are invaluable as they help you develop your overall approach towards working in your desired field.
Be clear about the purpose and everything else will be taken care of.
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." ~ ARISTOTLE
The alarm goes off at 7:00 in the morning as you frantically battle with sleep. You haven’t had the luxury of a good night’s sleep for weeks and there you go again, faced with another demanding day filled with things you would have never imagined yourself doing in a single day. You somehow rush through things and barely make it to the first lecture and thus the cycle begins. Lectures, cold calls, assignments, readings, quizzes, meetings and presentations engulf you from all the sides and just as you catch your breath, its night again. Though one knows the value that an MBA adds to one’s profile in terms of knowledge and exposure, hectic times and all the chaos can make one wonder what’s really happening. There are times when I have asked myself “What am I here for? Is this really what I wanted to get into?” However, soon you realise that MBA is not just about getting the requisite knowledge and skills but its more about internalising the lifestyle and work pattern. A b-school not only provides you with the required education but it also simulates the entire experience to prepare you well for your future responsibilities. Here’s how it made a difference in my case:
Well, we all have heard people say that “Leaders are born, not made.” Cannot say that we all agree to it because even if you are born with the right instincts, it is training that helps to use them wisely and natural talent can always be made to look better by following best practices. Currently, MBA seems to be the most potent professionally designed curriculum to learn the art of leadership and develop traits of administration that usually forms the blueprint to successful careers. We have tried to list the top 5 reasons to making MBA from the right institution a worthy pursuit are as follows:
This post is not for the weak. It's probably going to confuse you to a lot and you might hate me for that. Though it's my personal opinion but something needs to be said and I am just going to say it.
In the days after CAT, I read a lot of nonfiction to cover up my opinions with relevant facts. Facts, which were useless, when all you needed was to convince them of your convictions by answering the same question repeatedly.
The title might give you a feeling that it’s New Year’s eve, well it’s not and the fact that what you read in the incoming lines might actually connect with a very few who have gone through the experience I describe but I sure tell you that this piece might answer the quintessential question that grapples possibly every MBA aspirant who plans to put his/her 2 precious life years and a whole lot more to opt for something they call MBA. The question which I’m referring to is, yes some of you guessed it right, “Why MBA after all” and regardless of the fact that I’m only a half MBA yet with a whole lot coming my way in the year to come, I surely can do some justice to answering the question with a fairly unbiased conviction.
