NMIMS – Bangalore : Mr Shajan Samuel Sr.Vice President MAAC (India) was Guest Speaker today at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Bangalore Campus, he interacted with more than 100 MBA Students and shared his experience and spoke on skills required to excel in the corporate Arena.

The Session was around the dilemma of choices one has make in today’s time, Colleges today are confused because the old is dying and the new has not been born. In other words, is the hope, which Nandan Nilekani voiced in his book Imagining India, of “horizontal aspirations overwhelming our vertical divisions” finally, starting to play itself out?

He Also Spoke on Skills when you start and skills when you move up the Value Chain are different.

The instinct to create is different from the instinct to preserve; skills for getting the train out of the station are different from the skills for keeping the trains running on time. Neither is superior; they are just different.

Most of Students currently pursuing their MBA Course at NMIMS were from North India , the Current education system required radical revamp in content ,curriculum , and Academic rigour .The Current Indian Education system is input driven , it should be outcome driven .

Mr. Shajan Samuel said that There is no doubt that all of you sitting out here are equally creative, talented and desire to do well, but my message for all of you today is College teaches you to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops yet the most important decisions you will make are whom to marry, whom to be friends with, what to love, what to despise, and how to control impulses. What employers care about in the long run is whether you are persistent, bold and useful? So plan ahead.

Most of us like to hang around in the company of people who walk like us, think like us and look like us, in the short term is fun, but in the long run this can be a massive deterrent especially in the corporate ecosystem, therefore expand the surface area of your mind and life by embracing diversity in reading, people and activities. Hang out with diverse people, More importantly, hang out with smart people because, as Michelangelo said, walk with a cripple for a year and you will start limping.