An interesting talk :)
In my professional life I had the great fortune of hearing stories of some very capable men. In some cases I got to hear those men in person. There is something about these men which enabled them to reach the positions that they eventually did. You can call it their drive or energy or whatever but it did make them turn adversarial situations into great opportunities. Such situations may have overwhelmed a normal individual but not these guys. Today during my induction I heard the talk of one such guy, who is a GM in the company. The GM, an Irishman did his MBA from Georgetown way back in the early 90s. At that time it cost him around $42000, I got this feeling that it was quite a sum for him but somehow he managed. As a student he stayed in Washington and among his neighbors was Katherine Graham , whose family owns “The Washington Post”. Imagine spending the formative years of your life in the company of such characters ;) This guy started his work in the P&G as an in...