Changes to this blog

I have been mulling changing the theme of this blog to a bit more sedate and a serious tone where I can share my thoughts on not just MBA but about the business world, in the way I see it. I have been observing in the recent past that much of the traffic on this blog is from my colleagues at Lancaster and from few other quarters as well that include my family, friends and thier family. While, I see no reason that people who have followed me over the year will stop following me but these changes to the blog, I believe will enable me to put things in a different perspective.

My MBA is coming to an end. As soon as my electives term got over, I came over to Delhi to start with my internship. The experience of working in a new industry and in a different role has proved to be a blessing so far. It has enabled me to broaden my thinking, come out of silos of older experience, think new and think critically . Moreover, the MBA has done two things - confused me and also given me the clarity as to what I want to do at the same time.

The changes to the blog will refer to the duality. I intend to portray my mind about the vision I have and secondly, the foggyness over my vision will be cleared as this blog will allow me to crytallise my thinking.

Lancaster MBA is about to be over and I still have to chronicle my internship experience. Career 2.0 is about to begin. Wish me luck.

MBA is not everyone's cup of tea.

Please raise your hands who agree with me.

Surely it requires a lot of Commitment. The commitment with a big 'C' and not small 'c'.

Networking, thinking and giving shapes to new ideas, selling those ideas to people and then trying to start something new takes lot of energy. I believe there are many superstars in the class and everyone is as good as it gets. With too many things happening around, I really admire the small size of the class otherwise a large number would surely be a big distraction.

Recently there was IBM HR director who came and spoke with the class. It was quite an interesting session, but I think I would have derived much value out of it if he would have given more information about the trends in the industry and how to approach IBM and how IBM would help the students from this school. I am slightly selfish, but I think once companies start visiting my school with recruitment, like they do for LBS where they have to sift through 400+ resumes, the small size would be a great advantage to them.

But, that is long term. Right now there are lot of other things that need to be sorted out. Right now I am working on my CV (for a very long time) and looking for opportunities in Business Development / Management Consulting areas but it is a real hard work without a proper network to wade through plethora of companies around the world. It is very easy to get distracted and lose focus but sometimes posting here helps as a reflection. Don't really know, but if you guys know anything that comes up in my "desired" area do let me know. Is that a pitch? May be yes. But the prospects of not doing what I want to do post MBA is terrifying.

I think an entreprenuerial mindset has its own disadvantage. You get excited about the prospects very easily but to really pursue the same is really a hard work. MBA is also an entreprenuerial journey where you invest and take risk. But, I like that. I am also planning to go for the Rice Business Plan competition. Anyone willing to join? There are two more vacancies in the team. Ha ha.. that's funny, the hunted becomes the hunter. I am looking for opportunities and I am offering here one. Do contact me (you know where and how).

Will post soon with the results of job takers. Meanwhile I finished selling Barcamp here at Lancaster and the initial response seems to be quite good. I hope all goes well on Nov. 15. There is lot of work to complete before that happens. Let me go back to the drawing board now. See u soon.