Thursday, October 25, 2007

The extra mile

We had an official Pre Placement Talk by BCG yesterday . The talk was supposed to commence at 9.30 PM but got delayed by an hour due to late arrivals of their flight. The first part of the session went on till 12.30 AM. Since it was already pretty late, the BCG guys asked if wanted to stay on for some more time to do a live case interview. You may not believe it, but people actually said "Yes". And the BCG guys enthusiastically went on do a wonderful case till 2.30 AM. The classroom was almost packed throughout.

That is commitment. Both from the students side and the company's side. This morning i was speaking to another student and he exactly hit upon the same point. The difference between targeting a company and desiring to work in the company is Commitment.

How committed are we towards our goals? What separates wishful thinking and aims? Lots to ponder over...