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Time Management by John Hoover, is a wonderful book that I read during weekend. I could relate more examples from my work life to the practices dictated in this book. Surprisingly, I’ve already been unknowingly practicing some of these techniques. Nonetheless, I sense that this book is a great read for those who believe that they don’t have enough time.

Here are my key takeaways:

• Those who manage their time well, tend to have a big picture of their goals at work and life. They can easily breakdown goals into smaller units and later transform them into action oriented to-do lists.
• Be motivated to learn from mistakes and feedbacks.
• Three Elements of Goal management: Long term Goals (typically more than a year); Objectives (Complicated in a month or more); Tasks (Daily and weekly action items). First step in time management is to set the right long term goals and supporting them with objectives and daily actions.
• Set measurable goals. Do not set vague goals such as making your company best in the world. What does “best” mean here? Is it about making the most profit or best place to work or beating all competitors in your industry or what not? Increasing the revenue by 25% is a measurable target.
• Set realistic deadlines to finishing the tasks. Completing MBA in 1 month is unreasonable, isn’t it?
• Complex projects are ambitious but not impossible. Break them down into objectives and actionable tasks, ultimately. This process is called chunking. A seemingly impossible project that runs for more than a year may be broken down into daily, weekly and monthly progresses. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step” – Famous Eastern Proverb.
• Objectives are important because failing to achieve them on time, jeopardizes long-term goals. Achieving objectives would also build on confidence.
• Don’t rely on memory alone: Most best time managers agree that writing down the tasks is the key to effective time management. Lists help in organizing goals, objectives and tasks. Lists make you feel in control and prioritize tasks. Questions such as who, what, when, why, where and how might be handy to prioritize tasks. Anticipate unexpected factors that can affect and change priorities, such as financial concerns, deadlines, co-worker’s commitment, other projects, etc.
• “Just get it done” attitude certainly helps. Do not procrastinate.
• Creativity does flourish when patterns are rearranged, however, it can occur only in an organized environment.
• Use technology to effectively manage tasks (emails, reminders, and archives, can be quite handy)
• Be on the look out for time traps such as too much of Instant Messaging, excessive chatting with co-workers, online games, etc. Saying “No” to time wasters is like buying extra time.
• Be flexible and be ready to accommodate unforeseen surprises in the schedule.
• Never forget to factor in “Thinking Time”.
• Don’t be afraid to complete tasks out of their chronological order.
• When emails don’t get handled efficiently, they disorganize the work area.
• Don’t call for a meeting unless you have a clear idea about the purpose of the meeting. Meetings have the potential to turn into incredible time wasters. Prepare for the agenda in advance and inform participants their roles. Plan logistics to minimize disruption.
• Being too casual at work or pressing too hard, can burn you out.
• Respect everyone’s time. Be short and succinct.
• Try and complete a project within the deadline, by being more productive during working hours and not by dedicating extra time from personal time.
• Don’t waste time by dwelling over things that cannot change.
• Don’t work fast and furious. Patience certainly helps.
• Never hate to voice your opinion or ask a question.
• Make sure to celebrate/reward your team when objectives are achieved.

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• Recruiting and retaining competent employees tops the agenda of a HR
• Managers and HR must be flexible and adapt to the changes

• Assess current staffing requirements and (or) project future
  • Organization’s strategic vision
  • Short/long term goals
  • Market’s impact on the changes in organisation
  • Impact of resistance to these changes

• Evaluate the human capacity needed to meet objectives of the organisation, estimating number of people required per department/team/etc. This is done based on feedback
  • Requires understanding of business + assessments from experienced managers
  • Comparing with the benchmarks (perhaps with numbers from similar organisations)
  • Excessive workload to employees can often lead to burnouts and increased costs in the long run
  
  
• Do Job Analysis and publish job descriptions
  • Job Analysis - collecting sufficient information to understand what is entailed to perform the job
  • Job description – lists activities that an employee need to perform and the skills/qualities required to meet job objectives
  • Job description helps in understanding responsibility expectations for candidates evaluation within team, compensation levels, etc
    

• Recruitment

• HR needs to work with managers
• Internet/print ads, referrals, outsourced placement agencies, job fairs, campus (college) recruiting, etc
• Employee leasing/ project based recruiting is prevalent – companies hiring these contract employees are free of associated bookkeeping and administrative costs such as payroll, benefits, etc
• Internal hiring – choose from a known pool of talent; minimises misperceptions among candidates about the actual requirement, cost effective, motivates existing employees
• External hiring might help in avoiding the “musical chairs” syndrome that doesn’t give staff to mature into their respective jobs. On the other hand, internal hiring must ensure well planned cross-trainings

• Selection
  • Interviews, reference checks, background checks, skill test/work examples, personality tests, physical ability tests, drug tests, etc are prevalent as appropriate
  
  
• Appraisal
  • 360-degree assessment tool is commonly used nowadays. This receives and gives feedback not only from managers, but also from peers, clients, direct reports, etc. Has been proved to be an effective tool to adjudge the employee performance
  
  
• Employee personal/professional development and rewards
  
  • Helping employees attain their fullest potential is more important than hiring great candidates. Training and development is an essential component of all organizations
    
  • Increases value and capacity of human assets of the company
  • Sometimes, provides alternatives to external recruiting
  • Often creates potential leaders of the company
  • Helps individuals motivated and interested in their positions providing room for advancement
  • Initial orientation for employees in vital, especially for experienced professionals
    
  • Leadership development programs help managers turn to leaders

Great leaders exploit all three styles: authoritative/participative/delegative based on the situation:

• Authoritative - if group members lack knowledge
• Participative - if group members understand the objectives and roles
• Delegative - if group members know more than you do
  

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Ivey has always been among my top choice schools. To be honest, I was clearly obsessed with the case method and I found many characteristics to match with my future aspirations. In particular, the following made it obvious that Ivey is the school for me.

• In Class
• Experimental learning
• Professor is a facilitator
• Each class is a debate
• Focus is always on decision-making and action
• Case Method
• Dress rehearsal show for Real Life
• Analyze data, develop alternatives, make and defend recommendations and experience the outcomes
• Three levels of learning: Individual preparation, Diverse learning team and classroom debate guided by professor
• Perfectly aligned with Management Consulting perspectives (case interview, for example)
• 400+ case studies in one year
• Second largest producer of cases, only next to Harvard and largest producer of Asian cases
• Involuntary leadership development
• Cross Enterprise Leadership
• Broad based, Cross-functional and innovative curriculum
• Team teaching for cross enterprise cases
• Ivey Cross-Enterprise Field Project/ Ivey Consulting Project/ New venture projects
• Cross Enterprise Leadership has more to do with entrepreneurial thinking
• Students
• Diverse backgrounds: lawyers, engineers, consultants, accountants, communicators, health care professionals, teachers, international students, and more...
• Astounding faculty
• 1 year MBA
• Small class size (around 70 per intake)
• Career Management
• Great prospects in Management Consulting
• Career management integrated with curriculum, right from day one
• For credit courses on career management: expect to see case studies on career management
• Wonderful career management team
• Relationship Managers for 1x1 guidance
• Career Leader – career development tool
• Classes, clinics, in-class workshops, one-on-one coaching, etc
• Networking events
• Alumni
• 20,000+ Alumni; 70+ Alumni clubs; 37+ countries
• Alumni partnership program – students are strategically matched with Ivey graduates, helping students develop career plans
• 1 in 4 hold the title of Chair, President, CEO, Vice-President or Managing Director/Partner in his or her company
• Alumni assist in conducting preliminary off-campus student interviews, as part of international recruitment campaign
• International opportunities
• International study trip
• Leader program
• China teaching project
• Incredible reputation in Canada; Six decades of management education
• Ranking
• Financial Times Global MBA ranking : 53^rd overall
• Financial Times Global MBA ranking: 6^th in General management
• Wall street Journal: #12 among the top 25 internationally focused business schools
• Business Week: #2 among the schools outside US
• Extra Professional/Curricular Activities
• Case competitions
• IBK Capital Ivey Business Plan Competition
• AT Kearney
• Mercury Venture Challenge
• Thunderbird Global Innovation Challenge
• Ivey Connects
• Ivey Builds
• The Ivey Green
• Ivey Clubs
• Consulting Club, Finance Club, Industry & Marketing Club, Entrepreneur Club, Alternative Energy Club, Golf Club, Hockey Club, Ivey Rugby, MBA Association, Student Ambassadors, Wine Tasting Club, Global Village, Women in Management and more
• Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship

http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/media/2008/press/080327.htm

And here is the transcript...

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

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Personal

• Discuss yourself/ Walk me through your resume and explain your roles and responsibilities.
• Name three words or phrases to describe yourself to others
• What is an activity you are involved in? Why is it important to you?
• What contributions would you make to a group?
• What do you do to relieve stress?
• What are your hobbies outside of school and work?
• What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
• Please discuss the factors, both professional and personal, influencing the career decisions you have made so far.

• Why the MBA? Why now?
• Why are you interested in a general MBA program?
• What do you expect from this program?
• What can you contribute to our program and into our classrooms? What makes you unique among other candidates and why should we accept you?
• What would you do if not accepted?
• What are your long- and short-term goals? Why?
• Where do you see yourself in ten years?
• Which other schools are you applying to? How did you choose these schools? Why so many/few? Which school is your first choice?
• How do you plan to use your MBA in your career and your community?
• Why does this school appeal to you?

• Why did you choose your undergraduate major?
• Which school did you attend and why that one'?
• What was your major and why?
• Would you choose the same studies again if you could do it over again?
• What overall grades did you get? What is Honours?
• Which courses were you best at? Why?
• Did you work as an undergrad?
• Do you think your grades are an accurate reflection of your ability?
• What did you like most about this part of your education?
• What did you least like about this part of your education?

• What was your first job out of undergrad?
• Have you been promoted?
• Talk about experiences you have had at work. Can you briefly describe the key responsibilities of your current job?
• Describe a typical work day.
• Discuss your career progression
• Give examples of how you have demonstrated leadership inside and outside the work environment
• Discuss any experience you have had abroad
• How does your performance compare with that of your peers at a similar level?
• What specifically have you done to help your company change?
• What have you done to develop those under your responsibility?
• What could you do to be an even more effective member of your organization?
• Describe your most successful accomplishment at work.
• Describe a failure on the job.
• Why did you choose this profession? Why this company?
• What do you like best/about your current job?
• What are the key challenges of your job?
• Have you ever supervised employees?
• Have you switched firms? If so, why?
• What is most frustrating at work?
• Describe your relationship with your boss. What is good and bad about it"
• Where is your industry heading in the next five years? (all the more important if your interviewer works in the same domain)
• How would co-workers describe you?

• Discuss a time when you successfully supervised a diverse group of people toward a difficult goal. Give an example of when you accomplished something significant that wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t been there.
• Tell me about a situation where you had to persuade someone to agree with your point of view
• Describe a time when you had to gain upper management’s support for an idea/proposal
• Name a time when you had to convince someone who didn’t report directly to you to do something they didn’t want to do
• Describe a time when you had a conflict with another person in a corporate or school setting
• Describe a situation in which you identified key problems early on in a project and were able to avert a crisis
• Tell me about a time when you led a team to a goal even though the individual team members were sceptical that it could be accomplished
• Tell me about a time when you worked with someone who didn’t follow through. What did you do?
• How have you dealt with a person who was difficult to work with?
• Discuss a time when you had to make an unpopular decision
• Tell me about the toughest group that you ever worked in. What made it so tough, and how did you handle it?
• Describe an ethical dilemma that you faced in your career. How did you resolve it?
• Give me an example of when you pushed back against doing something
• What is the hardest decision you have ever had to make on the job? Outside of your job?
• Tell me about a time when you took a smart risk
• Name a time when you developed a unique and resourceful solution to a problem
• Describe a situation when you had to make an important decision without having all of the necessary information at hand
• Tell me about a time when you had to analyze facts quickly, identify the issues, and develop an action plan
• Give me an example of when you thought out of the box
• Have you ever had to bend a rule to get your work done more efficiently?
• Discuss a time when you didn’t succeed on the first try.
• What is the worst professional decision you have ever made?
• Tell me about a time when you weren’t very pleased with your performance.
• Describe a situation in which you wish you had acted differently with someone in your group.
• Describe a time when you inspired someone to work harder.
• Discuss a project that required the use of your analytical skills.
• Tell me about a time when you led a team to success despite opposition from others.
• Describe a situation where you brought an idea forward, and it failed.

• Tell me about a topic you just read?
• What trait you possess that I would not get by reading your file?"
• To test your communication skills: Pick a subject from the current news, assume I don't know anything about it and give me a brief synopsis.
• Describe a time when you had to convince an antagonistic group of the merits of your proposal. Explain the process.
• What team skills will you learn in MBA program?
• What are three major challenges that your industry is currently facing?
• Who do you admire most as a leader, and why?
• What was your greatest accomplishment?
• How do you define success?
• What would you do if a team member wasn't pulling his own weight?
• Who are your heroes? Why?
• What have you done that you are proud of?
• Define teamwork
• Define leadership
• What is your favorite sport? What aspect of it appeals to you'?
• What is the last book you read? What did you think of it?

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Where to start

• http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/international-indian-mba-schools-accepting/19927-mba-admissions-thread-of-gyans.html
• http://www.mba.com
• http://www.pagalguy.com
• http://www.managementparadise.com
• http://mbaleague.blogspot.com
• http://daveformba.blogspot.com
• http://www.mba-forums.com

• http://www.adrive.com/public/8dd39d1f444052218196e68c0416f7a2b1a1b2f23b94ca8b778575673c2678d9.html
• http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

• http://www.vault.co.in/pagalguy/PagalGuyBuzz_BOOK.pdf
• http://blog.clearadmit.com
• http://www.accepted.com
• http://mba.us.com/guide

• http://www.quoteland.com
• http://www.accepted.com/grad/default.aspx
• http://www.statementofpurpose.com

• http://www.esnips.com/web/BSchoolEntranceExamsGoodDocs
• http://www.geocities.com/gaurav.mittal83/1.htm
• http://esnips.com/web/gaurav-CAT
• http://esnips.com/web/gaurav-CAT1
• http://askpsycho.blogspot.com/2006/08/gmat-scoring-demystified-atleast.html

• http://www.web-books.com/
• http://www.planetpdf.com/
• http://www.gutenberg.org/
• http://www.FlazX.com/
• http://www.koobe.net/
• http://www.xpressionz.com/
• http://www.phatnav.com/books/
• http://etext.lob.virginia.edu/ebooks/
• http://www.onlyebooks.org
• http://gauravkiduniya.blogspot.com/
• http://www.managementparadise.com

• http://esnips.com/web/gaurav-CAT/
• http://esnips.com/web/gaurav-CAT1/
• http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

##Later I translated this table to “Why MBA” essay##
http://facts.wikispaces.com/MBA+Applications#Career%20Goals

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