Ending a long, agonizing, thrilling, painfull, sweet, nerve-wrecking, absorbing wait of 3 days..... the results for the ISB Class of 2010 -- R1 applicants ... were sent out on 20th November.
ISB has always maintained that results would be published on 20th November. But, then its difficult to control anxiety, the rumours, the mischief mongers and the ensuing panic..
Well, anxiety is infectious....
In these days of Web2.0, where everyone is hooked onto social networks through discussion groups and blogs, anxiety and rumours can spread faster than virus. That's exactly what happened in the week ending 20th November.
Speculation, which often causes huge financial losses, has this time caused immense mental stress on the innumerous ISB 2009 R1 applicants. Candidates, unable to concentrate, started speculating and theorizing stuff. The now infamous document update theory, initially proposed by narnikhil, has become a phenomenon. One theory lead to another and immense amount of creative energy has been spent on creating theories that speculate results and the time of announcement of results.
The eventual flooding of discussion forced the Moderator of Pagalguy to Lock a thread for a few hours... Isn't it akin to the suspension of trading on BSE to end bear runs !!
Moments of the Holy mail
Keeping all theories at rest, the results started trickling out at around 9:00 p.m IST on 20th Nov 2008.
I sighed .. a sigh of relief..
My wife shouted.. out of joy
Congratulations started pouring from all sides...
Well, it wasn't the same with each of the applicants. Some were not so fortunate. Some highly deserving candidated lost out.
It just brought out 2 aspects :
ISB has always maintained that results would be published on 20th November. But, then its difficult to control anxiety, the rumours, the mischief mongers and the ensuing panic..
Well, anxiety is infectious....
In these days of Web2.0, where everyone is hooked onto social networks through discussion groups and blogs, anxiety and rumours can spread faster than virus. That's exactly what happened in the week ending 20th November.
Speculation, which often causes huge financial losses, has this time caused immense mental stress on the innumerous ISB 2009 R1 applicants. Candidates, unable to concentrate, started speculating and theorizing stuff. The now infamous document update theory, initially proposed by narnikhil, has become a phenomenon. One theory lead to another and immense amount of creative energy has been spent on creating theories that speculate results and the time of announcement of results.
The eventual flooding of discussion forced the Moderator of Pagalguy to Lock a thread for a few hours... Isn't it akin to the suspension of trading on BSE to end bear runs !!
Moments of the Holy mail
Keeping all theories at rest, the results started trickling out at around 9:00 p.m IST on 20th Nov 2008.
I sighed .. a sigh of relief..
My wife shouted.. out of joy
Congratulations started pouring from all sides...
Well, it wasn't the same with each of the applicants. Some were not so fortunate. Some highly deserving candidated lost out.
It just brought out 2 aspects :
- Its not about talent --- its about projecting it
- Luck has its place --- no one can displace it
And the very presence of this second aspect called luck, causes anxiety.
Why are you so anxious ?
There were questions floating around.. Why are you guys so anxious ? As future managers, you need to learn to wait with patience and blah.. blah.. blah......
I don't agree..
Agreed, a leader should be able to deal with failure.
But, to be mature.. to be a great manager.. to be a leader.. doesn't mean you don't have feelings.
You are still human...
I feel we were completely justified to be anxious.
