Being M.B.A. !!

"At the graduation ceremony, when you get your M.B.A. Degree in hand and realize that this degree has not changed you as a person you were before joining this course; indicates that the University has failed in its mission of educating you"- Prof. Mogan Swamy, Lecturer for 'Managing Entrepreneurial Enterprises' at James Cook University, Australia at its Singapore Campus.

Attended one of the most inspirational lectures in the University today. In M.B.A. we generally study about big terms like Market Segmentation, Consumer behavior, 4P's and 7P's. However, this is not at all sufficient to be a successful M.B.A. graduate. Prof. Mogan shared one of his experiences with us. During his youth when he was working as a waiter at French Restaurant, his owner used to check the plates which Mogan used to pick up from the table and drop it for washing. Whenever he used to find any leftover food, he used to ask the reason for it to Mogan. Questions like, "Did it taste bad?", "Did the customer complain?","Has the customer given any suggestions for improvement?". He would go to a extent of tasting the left over food to check the reason why the customer didn't eat it. This is what it takes to be a successful Entrepreneur or a successful manager in general. It takes a lot of pain to understand the customer.

We usually look at rich Businessmen owning big houses and expensive cars and feel that it is so good to be successful. However, we do not consider the amount of hard work and sacrifices they must have made to reach that position.

Getting a 'High Distinction' grade in exam indicates that an individual is a good student but that doesn't prove that he has understood all the lectures and is bound to be successful in life.

Few days back, as a part of Volunteers Club in JCU; I had been to a Junior College in order to talk to the A- level students about pursuing Psychology, IT and Business courses at our University. There were 4 Universities present on that day over there- Nanyang Technological University(NTU). National University of Singapore(NUS), Singapore Institute of Management(SIM). At first I stood there as an M.B.A. student of JCU to market the University and convince the students and I didn't succeed in convincing the students to at least come and visit the University promotion stall, However, I removed my ID card and kept it aside. Now, I was just a marketer standing there leaving the pride of being a M.B.A. student and guess what IT WORKED!!! To understand what M.B.A. is, go and stand there in the market and try selling your product instead of making 100 page analysis reports!!!!

I do not have formal work experience as such and was skeptical whether the decision of career shift from being an Engineer to a MBA graduate is good. Nevertheless, I have discovered that I DID THE RIGHT CHOICE. Engineering taught me how things work and M.B.A. is teaching me how things will work for me.

Hey you are a Bastard!! I will kill you....

SHOCKED?? Yes, this is what people usually tend to say when they are angry. Today I just have a story to share with you all.


This is a story about two people who were pursuing their Masters in Business Administration. Their names were 'Tom' and 'Harry'. Tom always valued people and his relationships and was a bit reserved in his behavior with the outside world. He would talk and be friendly to everybody but would always try to maintain a 6 feet distance from people who used to talk to him in a loud tone. He used to hate that tone because he was a firm believer that people who try to talk with a loud tone in order to force their ideology on others are basically weak at heart and lack the audacity to face the truth. Whenever he didn't like talking to someone, he would just walk away without saying a word. Whenever he had any kind of personal problems he would just keep it to himself and never mixed Personal and Social life.

Moreover, Harry was an angry young man. According to his school of thought, if a person talks in a loud voice and tries to suppress others with his point of view is a real life hero. He believed the only way to survive in this world is a loud voice and an angry tone. Whenever he had any personal life issues, he used to mix his personal and social life and try to insult anybody who used to confront him at that instance.

It so happened that Tom and Harry studied in the same class for their course.They were good classmates, NOT FRIENDS as such. Tom and Harry had clashes many times but Tom just tried to ignore it because, he felt that it was not his duty to show a right path to morons in this world. Nevertheless, he had other important things to do in life rather than wasting time to straighten a Dog's twisted tail, which is a donkey task .

But, one day Tom's threshold of tolerance was penetrated by Harry and he decided, its time that he should stop talking to him. He started ignoring him and was quite successful in it. Now, Harry became aware of this and started bugging him saying, "WHY THE HELL YOU DON'T TALK TO ME?". To this Tom replied. "Dude, I don't like people talking to me in a loud tone, so I have decided that its better we keep safe distance". Harry confronted by saying, "How dare you tell me that! I have the same attitude since last 24 years and I wont change my attitude for you".

Tom replied by saying,"Now that is up to you whether you want to improve or not but remember one thing in life, Don't try to amalgamate your personal and social life, If you do that I assure you that your life will be in deep shit one day. For Example, If you are a head of an organization and one day you've had a quarrel with your family, you go to office and some employee comes in front of you to ask for your help, will you insult and fire him from his job?". To this the brave Harry replied, " Yes! I will fire that employee from his job. I will never work for any Organization, I will be a entrepreneur and if some employee comes in front of me at that moment I will definitely fire him and wont even bother that even that employee has a family to look after because when this is my tone and behavior when I am angry and I don't bother what others think".

Moreover, Tom said," Ok fine, you keep your attitude with you and god bless you for your bright future". Harry was fuming at this instance and started vomiting abuses at him. And that was it, from that day onwards Tom and Harry never tried to even look at each others face.

People, I would like to highlight one important point over here. This life is too short for hatred. Where will you take this hatred? Why can't people be gentle in life? Why can't people pacify their anger and see this world in an optimistic manner? WHY? Why do people think talking in a loud tone is a symbol of bravery?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

Who knows tomorrow you may meet with an accident and die at the very moment or will be suffering on a hospital bed begging God to let you die. Will you take your anger with you to the grave?

This was just a fictional story, but please think on it. Try practicing love and spread love everywhere. This world is a beautiful place and one smile and a soft tone will spread peace and love everywhere. So that, when the day you are counting your last breath you can pacify yourself by saying, "God! I never gave my contribution for increasing hatred in this world. My deeds never caused anybody to feel sad."

The snow is melting out there and there is increase of global tension in the form of hatred and terrorism. Can you give your contribution to this world?