Introduction Post : GD, PI and beyond ....

After the CAT fiasco, we all have been feeling low, but let me quote one of my posts from PG.

" Suna hai janta bahut pareshan hai ......

Koi CAT acchha nahi hua isliye pareshan to koi Re-test nahi ho rhaa isliye pareshan.

Koi IIFT se call nahi aayi isliye pareshan, to koi convert ke liye preps kaise kare isliye pareshan.

Koi JMET ki key se agree nahi karta isliye pareshan to koi CAT ka result normalize hoga yaa nahi isliye pareshan.

but guys let me tell you one thing (no preaching here, just a friendly suggestion). What is it exactly that makes u worried ??? kahin suna tha maine : jab chot lagti hai to dard sabko hota hai, khoon sabka nikalta haii, thokar lagti hai to girta har koi hai, baat sirf itni si hai ki girne ke baad kaun kitni jaldi uthta hai, chot lagne ke baad bhi kitni der tak khada rahta hai...... Remember this :staying alive is as important in a war as is winning [if not more ]

Its all about 2 things 1.)perseverance 2.) Prioritize.

If some-thing goes wrong we feel bad and there is nothing wrong about it, but then the best we can do about it is to move ahead and make sure that some-day when we sit in solace we can look back and say, there was a time when nothing seemed to be right, all the odds were against me but I fought and here I am winning against the wind and irrespective of what happened or what destiny tried to do to me, I got what I wanted .....

Our priority is achieving what we dream, getting what we desire and IIMs or for that matter MBA is not ThE dream, its just a means to achieve them, very important indeed but still its just a means, so if loosing the means implies getting closer to the dream so be it....

And for the IIMs and the other Authorities : We people trust in you, its we who have made your campuses "god's own campus" or "wimwi", its we who make your institutes the Coveted dreams, the worshiped colleges.

Now the least you need is to copy what others are doing or to show cowardice from accepting some glitches or failures or to give some lame reasons and explanations.

Its never too late for a good cause, please realize that IIMs are not the IIMs because of some ranking system (national or international) or for the high-end technology that you use for something or the other or some foreign client that is doing something for you or even tie-ups with international B-Schools an the likes, it is because of us, the faculty and the students.

And even if you take it from the business perspective the most important aspect of a business is clients, not the product and not the services and not any-thing else, as long as your clients are happy and satisfied its okay, everything else is just a means to that end, and with that I sincerely hope and believe that you will try everything you can to maintain the trust that we have always shown in you, and I assure you that no matter what, as long as you are transparent, honest and helpful to us we will be there to back you up, no matter what technical glitch or wrong decision comes your way. "

SO, lets keep the talks and thoughts about things over which we have no control aside, and do what we can.

From today onwards, I will be posting a few GD topics, Interview questions et al and I hope and request you all to post your views on them in the comment section, lets make it an interactive platform so that we can learn in the process, and hopefully we shall be able to successfully use the knowledge we will gain here in the 2'nd round of the Institutes we want to get into .......

Few suggestions .

1.) Be regular.
2.) Don't get personal, and remember its not a debate rather a discussion.
3.) Avoid redundancy, try to find out new dimensions to the topic, if it means getting unconventional then be it.
4.) Don't be adamant, if some-one posts a good point, appreciate it; and if some-one gives good logic for some point accept it.
5.) Have fun.