CEO of Nivea, Neil George advised the batch, "Only two things matter: Decision Making and Influencing". Wearing multiple hats of MD, Comic Author and Globe Trotter, he inspired us to not just focus on academics and competitions, but also to pursue their passions, while having fun along the journey. A new product challenge required the students to present their ideas in front of the man himself and win the privilege of shadowing the CEO for a day. The event gave me the platform to present my idea to him as well. My happy moment: I was the second runners up for the challenge. Words of appreciation from successful people often work more effectively to boost our morale and motivate us to work harder.
DOCC hero, Shaheen Mistri, founder of Teach for India and Akanksha Foundation, in her speech, warmed our hearts with her ‘good deeds’ stories and made us reflect how our everyday actions, howsoever small, can affect someone’s world. She sensitised the PGDM participants to the hardships of people from different walks of life and asked us to look deep within and select a cause close to our heart and contribute towards it.
These diverse range of talks are helping the candidates to imbibe various perspectives, reinforcing virtues of not only tolerating, accepting and accommodating diverse opinions and being respectful of others. When the gamut of activities and opportunities offered is so vast, holistic development doesn’t remain just the end. Rather, it becomes the means itself, a way of life at SPJIMR.
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About the Author:
Ayushi Gupta (PGDM 2017-19, Marketing)
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