Edible Entrepreneur

Long back I had known someone who was a high spirited fellow and a dreamer.He would always boast about his budding interest in entrepreneurship. He would just go about relentlessly taking about anything and everything to start up his own business, be it his own designer label,to his becoming a hotelier, owing an alcohol bar to moving into publishing business.Day in and day out we all friends would get jammed up with his talks.....but his company was contagious, his ideas hilarious and his treats were appeatising....

In the later years,changes were fast paced and we slowly left out in touch.Each with our busy life we hardly stayed to wonder on those carefree days.When recently sure I came across this friend of ours in his flagship store" Edible Entrepreneur".His store was more of a coffee house /snacks bar typo but had only previledged customers who were either entrepreneurs or dreaming to be one.

The New Age He-Man

I recently had the previledge of sharing discussion space with a new age actor turned politician.As opposed to my thinking the evening would be dull and boring, with only "its me" talks , the evening was anything but dull. We had few other discreet industrialists participating in the discussion. The opening note started with " What best can I do for you!" Whao.... so our new age He -Man had a polished speech,( spare me for my prejudice but i judge people by their speech). By and by as the evening started coming to an end I was amazed to learn that our He-Man was not only a veteran actor in regional filmdom but also an MBA grad from a University of repute(a place which constantly gets its ranking amongst the top 10), a loyal sportsman being a part of the Ranji Trophy, a convent educated people's person.

As I came out of the convention hall, i had the faith that Our country in the true sense is progressing towards economic and social enlightment, also that we need more such new age "He Mans"!!!

faith or superstition

This has been a topic I had thought of writing since a long time...but somehow could not assimilate my thoughts into words ... until recently when i came across a eye witnessing happening.India we know is a land of different religions, beliefs, wonders and magics. This I happened to see in one of the remote places which still today i haven't been able to believe.
 There is a belief here that gods talk to our people through some people's body, and the person possessed at that particular time knows nothing of what happens to him/her. His/her voice becomes discreet and different ,talks in different languages ,becomes sadistic and moronic which otherwise the person is not and most mysteriously tell you things associated with your life which you haven't revealed to  anyone yet....
Now the point becomes after i myself witnessed a small gathering talking to this godly feminine ....do we call it "Faith", "Superstition" or more scientifically "personality disorder"?

Really Recession??

At times i think since this recession been almost an year now....i should have had more time doing things i would have done in a bit of leisure...and blogging comes at a top priority since it gives me a scope to write.I had always wanted to write but never could move on to professional writing nonetheless a few regional articles here and there were published. Writing something out of passion or for something that we really feel for is infact valued.

Anyways not deviating from my topic ,i have hardly seen recession personally on the work front.May be the inflations have gone up,prices of commodities have been fluctuating a lot but still i have not found out time to spend time in leisure.Somehow i feel in these reccession times we do the same work but at a slower pace, with a lot of irritation and constant complaint "recession or no recession pressure of work is still the same". I guess this time we should really start thinking of work in a different sphere.

The IIM-ISB debate:

I just came across this interesting thread on the IIM-ISB debate fo placements this session...
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Somebody wrote:"I am not writing this as a reprsentative of ISB alumni community,but we must all realize one thing ,its difficult times for everyone and in such times placement is not the only criteria you should base a decison upon if yo are an MBA aspirant .MBA is an experience and a long term investment.So carefully weigh your options.And commenting on the ISB-IIM comparison ,I think its as useless as the exit poll opinions:).Both schools have diffeernt batch profile,different pedagogy and different targeted job profiles for placements.Plus in ISB people come with significant work experience and are very clear about where they want to head to.So lot of high salary offers are also turned down unless the roles and responsibilities are meaty enough.So if placements puts a question mark on the credibilty ir quality of the institute then the inseads,whartons,havards of the world will also be as useless as ISB is:)

So what say ...this has infact made me think how not so distinctively we base our decsions and opinions on B-school ratings and how well made is it.ISB being a deemed institute by one and all in our country also has to undergo such a severe scrutiny,overlooking its last 50 years of rich heritage and contributions to the business world.