I have been doing a lot of reading in trains recently; the credit goes to our Jabalpur trip in this past week. I have been reading sitting on doors of moving trains, in the pale neon light of compartment, or sometimes in the weak torchlight of my cellphone in the dark when every passenger has slept. The topic of my readings has remained constant throughout this entire year- business. The reading on this trip was no different. I finished reading Philip Delves Broughton’s “What they teach you at Harvard Business School”. HBS is my dream school, the only school that I want to study in if ever I decide to do an MBA. Philip Delves is an HBS alumnus, batch of 2006, and he has filled the book with lots of anecdotes, description of professors and workings of HBS, and a crucial question about finding a balance in life between business and family. The book is a somber reading, and a very thought-provoking one for someone like me. This book, combined with an incident that happened in Jabalpur, made me ask some crucial question about my business.
Powered by FireStats