A common refrain I hear from lots of new and budding executives is about the preference for Strategy related work over Ops or the daily grunt work that keeps businesses ticking. Many of us regard strategy as the hot area to drive industry modifying thinking and make our professional mark. The foot soldier work by …
What makes a Brand Management role exciting is the cross-functional interface, with its diversity and scope to learn different aspects of the business. Most Brand Managers I have met will rap easily with Sales Teams and enjoy the road less travelled, cracking wholesale markets, fighting the good fight to push up sales forecasts and partying …
Every MBA dreams of landing that terrific first job and launching a career about which books will be written and legends narrated at post work sessions. But what if that first job feels terrible not terrific? It has been about three months or so since new MBAs across the country have embarked on their careers. …
A lot of MBA students show an interest in General Management and make that their career goal. Fact is though, not everyone has the correct notion of what General Management is all about, so they don’t know how to prepare for it. Sometimes, it is mixed up with Strategy Development. At other times it is …
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In the early years of my career, I was in a bad job and struggled to get out of bed every morning, much less get through the day. A corrosive and toxic office environment coupled with an insensitive boss drove me to despair. I was interviewing furiously, but nothing materialized and each day was sheer …
A lot is being said and written about Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. To be completely clear, the politics of it is less interesting to me than the concept itself. My mind did begin drawing parallels between the idea of the padayatra and its application in the business world. Since I teach at a Business …
This is that time of the year when freshly minted MBAs are emerging from Business Schools all over the country. In the next few months most will be starting their professional careers, many in their first job. An unlucky few will have missed the Placement bus and would now be scrambling to land a job, …
Most MBA students dream of exciting jobs formulating strategy for some of the world’s leading brands. There are endless stories about the great Marketing Generals who spotted a chink in their enemy’s armour and exponentially boosted market share with that killer ad campaign. We all dream of that flash of insight, the Eureka moment, without …
Two timing in personal relationships was probably expected by our Lord in Heaven which is why one of the Ten Commandments says “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife”. I can’t say with certainty whether our Creator of the Universe had expected mankind and society to evolve into the current world of corporations, business professionals …