Many Chartered Accountants and kids who have done MBA with specialisation in finance believe that they need only number crunching skills. Number crunching skills are necessary and impossible to live without, but they also need some other skills: 1. Improve your general knowledge: Life is far more than just finance. You need to understand some […]
Last week somebody asked me this question. Is RM your share broker….and I really had to think hard. In 1979 I would have said yes. In 2010 it took me to a Bhagvat Geetha lecture that I had heard long, long back. Not sure whether the speaker was from Chinmaya Mission or from the Hare […]
Many many and many more people have asked me this question. Why do I not teach at Business Schools? Well let me enumerate the reasons – not even hinting that there are no more reasons! 1. Colleges do not pay well: In Mumbai the kind of money one gets for teaching is so low that […]
A few years ago I was in a small city of India and was at a party. The table where I was sitting were three men discussing something which I could not understand at all. ‘I moved from a 1:7 to 1:3’ said the first person. Oh that is really good “I am not happy […]
The fact is education in this country is in a mess and the politicians are largely responsible for this mess. A dominant group of powerful politicians from all states dominate it and how! When a few famous Indian professors got together to set up a school for International Business the Government of Maharashtra wanted them […]
Is the financial service industry doing anything for society? I mean is there a VALUE ADD or is it just getting more and more out of the value adding channel? Not sure? Ask MBA colleges – the financial service industry is a big saviour. Whether it be ICICI, Hdfc, Kotak, Indiainfoline, – all their arms […]
When Jagadguru Shankaracharya was asked why are you calling yourself a Jagadguru? Are you a guru to the world? He said, no the correct interpretation of Jagadguru is the Jagad is my guru! It is really true. When you start teaching / try to teach you realise that there is a lot of learning. One […]