Pertinent Observations

Archive for January, 2012

23 Jan

Brute force and elegant fight scenes

About a month back I happened to watch some random Kannada movie playing on TV starring wifebeater Darshan (it was called “Boss”, I think). It seemed like yet another of those typical masala flicks, with twin brothers and a weeping mother and lots of rowdies and corporate rivalry and all that. Overall it was a [...]

06 Jan

US MBA Admissions

B-schools based in the US use a unique self-selecting mechanism to filter out applicants who might be a bad fit for a management job. This they achieve by making the application process more complicated, but in a way that the kind of people they hope to attract find it simple. Let me explain. Like most [...]

02 Jan

On mental math and consulting careers

Sometime last week, the wife wanted to know more about management consulting, and I was trying to explain to her the kind of work that consulting firms do. I told her that the two most important skills to have in order to be a successful consultant are structured thinking and people skills, and in order [...]

01 Jan

Signaling

this post was written yesterday when blog was down, so posting it now.  Bob: Damn, I’ve to go to Eve’s party tonight Alice: Oh, but I thought you actually wanted to go? Bob: Nope, I have other things to do and it’s inconvenient to go. But if I don’t go, Eve will get hurt. Alice: [...]

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