Change Yourself

What does a B-School graduate wants or more specifically what are his dreams before entering a B-School. Most of us aspire for a good break in the corporate world with a fat salary package, and satisfaction in his job. My aspirations were not different apart from that I some time also thought of starting my own venture. With this thought in my mind I joined NEN through my institute IISWBM and got a chance to attend a seminar at IIM, Calcutta on being an Entrepreneur. The two day stay at IIM was truly memorable and motivator like Mr. Sunil Handa was truly mind boggling. I would be sharing few points that I learnt there in this blog.
Starting with the qualities that an Entrepreneur need we will move on to the problem that he might face in his due course. The first quality that an entrepreneur needs is a strong determination, the courage to reject the fat pay package that he might be offered once he completes his MBA, the courage to handle the peer pressure and the ability to handle criticism. One you are equipped with these weapons then jump in the battle-field but make sure that your parents are there in the field along with you as your principal supporter and advisor. A person cares about his job more if it is personal to him take for example a cricket match. Even a die-hard cricket fan would be less enthusiastic when the match is between two different nations but his interest level would certainly rise if one of the participating nation is his own. The crux of the matter is that when something personal is at stake then one would participate more enthusiastically. So when we start our own business then we would give our 100 percent to make it successful because at that time it would be something very personal to us.
Some of us have the notion that it would be quite beneficial to start a business after working for few years and gain some experience or increase our contacts. When one works for few years many of them would become accustomed to the job and would think twice before leaving it and would not dare to take risk at an older age. As far as contacts are concerned one can hardly make contacts with the upper echelon of the organization while working at a lower position and after all we are human being we should know the technique to socialize with the person of our need and make contacts by something called “Ghusao technique” (The term given by Mr. Handa to make contacts forcibly). As far as experience is concerned one hardly starts a business in the field of his experience.There are examples of many entrepreneurs who were successful only after two or three venture so one should not be discouraged at the failure of their first venture. We should jump into the endeavor and once we face the real situation we would learn everything. One should be ethical while doing the business and should always think about the nation, the society, his family and if time permits then about himself.
Obviously India is prospering but on the other hand “Bharat” (read as rural India) is lagging behind and until and unless we bridge the gap between India and Bharat the nation as a whole would not prosper. One way of doing this is to create jobs for the youths of rural India. There are many job seekers and we have to create job for these ever increasing job seekers. Hope we would succeed in our mission.