Today we had Cricket match between Section A and Section B. Guess what, Section B were the winners yet again!! The rules of cricket game are weird here but are sure fun…

We play the cricket match inside basket ball court. It’s quite big. We play with tennis balls. Catches taken after one bounce are out (either off the ground or off the wall). A girl is a must in the team. 8 overs per innings and 2 innings per match. No chucking and only over-arm bowling…Interesting recipe…

Whole lot of speeches are happening in ISB. Looks like we will be witnessing speeches of great people atleast once per week. Today, CFO of Renault-Nissan, Mr. Thierry Moulonguet shared his experience of transforming loss-making Nissan into one of the best performing automotive company in the world, with a whopping profit margin of 10.6% (Highest in automotive industry). He was the chief architect behind it’s revival..

Tomorrow, we have a Panel discussion on topic “Do B-Schools add value?”. The guest speakers list is pretty interesting.

Arun Maira – Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India
Bakul Dholakia – Director, IIM-Ahmedabad
Dharni Sinha - Chairman, COSMODE
Indrajit Gupta – Deputy Editor, Business World
Ravi Yadavilli - Assistant VP, GE (ISB Alumnus)

Each of them will share their perspectives on the topic, followed by an interactive Q&A Session…Will be very interesting..

One great thing about ISB is that it is able to leverage its brand very well and attract guest speakers from various backgrounds. Many new speakers come here and become impressed by the infrastructure and students here. Many of these people, come back as Recruiters…

:D…couldn’t restrain from blogging…So am back…

Today’s thought….

Not only are there many ways to earn money, many ways to have fun, many ways to spend time..but there are many ways to learn. I can see whole lot of patterns in ‘learning’ in ISB. Some learn from books, some learn from professors, some learn from peers and some learn from within (by doing lot of self-introspection). ‘Learning to learn’ is one of the important trait that ISB is trying to implant in each of us. One should always be willing to learn from each and every situation. The key to this is to avoid assumptions. Lot of time we assume things and take items for granted…and the result?? we don’t learn…

Take IITians for example…They have certain style in studying..You don’t find them working hard…but they do slog…They spend time in sports, spend time in parties, but they also manage to study (and how hard!)…They exactly know when to break out from the crowd and when to break into the crowd…I am starting to look that as an art…Infact, that’s a learning on “how to learn”!!

Take Married people…They have whole set of challenges..and those with kids deserve special mention. Observing them on how they study is a learning on “art of balancing”…

Some have good speaking skills, some have good writing skills, some have good social skills, some have charisma and use that to maximum effect, some have great networking skills and the list goes on..and on…

I have started admiring each and every individual here…No one is inferior to other…Everyone has something to be admired about…Looking back at my own post, I can infer onething….I am learning to learn…