Why MBA? - A Perspective | Vamsi Preetam

I started to think on the lines of what an MBA actually is about. I googled, searched online, did my research. Simply put, it is a course that teaches one skills - managerial and leadership. I wondered if these skills have to be taught in a course. Aren’t people smart enough to figure these things out themselves? They are! But it takes experience to become wise. Wisdom comes with experience. But how much experience counts? How experienced should I be to be wise? I didn’t know! But then I remembered the Latin aphorism “scientia potential est”, translating to “Knowledge is Power”. I do know that knowledge leads to wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge applied in the right place at the right time for the right thing.

A personal experience strengthened my belief in this idea, “Knowledge is Power”. During my undergraduation, I took “Organisational Behaviour” as my humanities elective. At the time, I held important positions in our college’s outreach club and in our college’s annual techno-cultural festival organising team. I should say that the concepts that I’ve learnt about social psychology, conflicts of interest, perceived organisational support did come in handy. At a later point of time, the concepts of self-evaluation, self-monitoring, proactive personality, level 5 leadership helped me form the Animal Welfare Wing of our college with some student volunteers to save some mute souls! Each time I think about the animals we saved, the ones we sent to good homes, it fills me up to the brim with joy and pride. Is this relevant to the story? Yes it is. These concepts with fancy names that I was talking about aren’t something that a person already doesn’t have inside him/her. Everybody does have them already. But studying about them made me aware. They made me effective. And these are all but a few small concepts of a subject taught in a course. MBA. Being a person who has always wanted to make a difference, to leave a mark on the world, I’ve found my answer. MBA isn’t my goal but it is a step in a long journey that lies ahead of me. I’ve decided to do an MBA. But if you ask me if that is my only answer, I should say no. I do want to make loads of money and doing an MBA would score me a job that would make me more money.

If you are one of those people who are searching online for an answer to the most important and most probable question one could face from the interview panel, you wouldn’t find it here. You need to go inwards, set your mind free and fly high! You will find your answers. There are no right or wrong answers here. What matters the most is that how much you believe in “your answer(s)”! Believe and have an open mind to have an answer that keeps evolving into a better one! And you will find your perspective. All the best!

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