Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Damage of the MBA education: Bliss of the present

So many students visit me to seek career advice. I invariably ask them what did they want to achieve in life. They talk about status, contributing to society, utilization of learning during MBA…

None has told me that s/he were looking for happiness in life. Are we so obsessed with objectives? This is, I think, the biggest damage of MBA education. It makes people activity oriented. They seek to achieve objectives through strategy, planning, training… Consequently, they always live in future constantly chasing the objectives, goals, targets... They miss the bliss of the present.

Activity makes them part of system. The joy of action that is finely groomed in the present is missed in the process. 

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