“If doctors were required to report on of life instead of tests run, you can bet quality of life would improve faster than the number of tests run does.” — Seth Godin Doesn’t that sound more like a Nassim Taleb aphorism? The increasing reliance on number crunching has brought about an oversight of quality in […]

I love articles on career advice and interviews. A few years ago, it was both a shock and a revelation to me when I learned that an interview is not just the recruiter firing away questions at a candidate, instead it is a constructive dialog between the two parties. An interview is a short process. […]

The rape and the barbaric assault of a 23 year old girl in a running bus leading to her death had jolted the entire nation in December 2012. People came out in groups of thousands to protest against such an inhuman incident and also to ensure that the safety of women in the nation was […]

It’s not only about Jagruti or Jyoti or Amanat or Nirbhaya or Damini or the Delhi braveheart, the way they call her, its about every single women of India. A year has passed by. New laws have been made. But that hasn’t changed anything. Rapes still occur. Not too many days have passed when I […]

It was breezy cold night at Surat Railway station almost a week ago. I was waiting for my train to arrive at 3:30 am at platform no. 3. Platform was still crowded with people covered with Shawls and Sweaters, some gathered as group waiting to board the train, some sleeping on platform and chairs. With […]

There are some events that happen in life that have a profound impact and this is one such event. I remember even the minute details from that day. I remember that day much better than even some years in my life. For that was the day I saw what death was. I had just returned […]

There is always a huge difference between what we are expected to say in an interview and what we actually want to yell out on being asked certain specific questions. Might not apply to some people, but many, especially applying for B-schools, will be able to relate to what I am trying to convey. Following […]

In a shocking and heartbreaking development, especially for young people in countries such as Iran and Iraq, it has been discovered that Steve Jobs’ most popular invocation to the youth actually came with a big previously unknown rider: ‘Follow Your Passion – Only applicable to citizens of developed nations‘! This gut-wrenching revelation was discovered in […]

An opportunity to interact candidly with SOIL Alumni and understand the unique SOIL Experience – the unique Talent Appreciation Process, the Individual Learning Plans and the experience of being mentored by very senior Industry leaders, can be understood first hand in this coffee chat. The sessions will be held in Gurgaon, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, […]

The SNAP exam is all but over last weekend. Post exam all the leading MBA coaching inst. have started pouring-in their analysis and cutoffs of the leading inst. Many aspirants have lost their sleep, hunger and to an extent themselves in search of their actual score and ideal cutoff. People are crazy reading analysis after […]