Mission Statements only for companies? Think again...

I was having a discussion with one of my friends on the mission statements of companies. It was all substance (pun intended) but made me think…think about life. What if we need to write a mission statement for our life? Will it be the nearest thing we can ever come to finding the need for our existence? May be…

To become a good human being and uphold all human values – hmm…too heavy a statement to describe anyone. How would it be if every one of us comes up with his/her vision statement? Then our interviews, job as well as educational, will have some questions on our vision statements also. How do you think that you are going to uphold human values? What are human values? Why only human values why not animal values?

Then there would be coaching institutes:
T.I.M.S (Triumphant Institute of Mission statements)
“90% of the students admitted in IIMs and IITs have their mission statements prepared by us. – validated by KPMG” (pun intended!!!)

Group tasks will be based on vision statements – group of 10 needs to come up with one statement that signifies their group. There would be offers from FMCG companies – come up with a good vision statement for our CEO and you will win a trip for two to Washington to meet the U.S. president. There would be cases filed in courts saying that the mission statement of one Mr. X has been copied by Copy Malik (great grand son of music composer ‘Copy all’ Malik)

If you are still reading this, don’t worry about me – I’m still not Krazzy

Kozhikode to Gurgaon....

Any sane person would love to camp in Ooty, Kodaikanal or some hill station in the summers and I chose GURGAON. The beautiful hot city of the north which boils to the max in summer and gives a chance to do a 'Salman Khan'. This, believe me, is something which I could not prevent! Given a chance I would camp in an Ooty or a Nainital but I'm left with no other choice. American Express doesn't have an office there!

Yeah...AmEx is my destination for the summers. My two months of summer internship where I'm supposed to learn about the industry practices and understand how practical are the theoritical principles we mug in our MBA courses. Two months is always very short to do something substantial but still...

Believe me, my joining date was April 1. I didn't have enough time to fly back home which meant I will have two days before I join AmEx. The flight from Kozhi-Mumbai-Delhi had Sangini and KB (Kaustubh) giving company to me. Ofcourse, we had Shahrukh and Shaan accompanying us at different stages!