Live your dreams! Entrepreneurship rocks:)

hazaron khwaishein aisi ki har khwaish pe dum nikale....

 In my Strategic Management textbook, I read about BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) and questioned few of my friends what are their BHAGs in life? Many wanted to be CEOs and Managing Directors of big companies. When I asked them by what time they would want to get there? Most of them answered 8-10 years. 

Well to be honest on an average if anyone works in a corporate scenario it would take around 25 years to achieve that goal.

 Well here I am, a 22 year old,a first year MBA student, already vice-president of an NGO, managing partner of an entrepreneurial venture on handmade chocolates and soon entering serial entrepreneurship, secretary of social cell in a B-school, working for getting a private pilot license, planning to enter politics in few years and still managing to have crazy amount of fun and good amount of sleep :) Life is just awesome :) BHAGs are just a part of everyday reality :)

 The biggest irony about business school is that it does not teach you business :). I think at a time where B-schools are available at every nook and corner in the country, even the good quality B-schools are providing a hoard of job seekers. Each year we have thousands of job seekers with similar skill sets entering the industry. Are B-schools really creating leaders or just corporate citizens? It is high time that we change the trend and there should be more job creators entering the industry. Let business school also create people who do business.

I feel that the amount of learning one gets while starting up your own business venture is much more than while you are doing a job.  I always felt while I was doing a job myself that there are a lot of restrictions and the process really curbs your creative abilities and original thought.

Also the idea of working with friends is really exciting. There is a lot of work but with friends it is like being on an extended holiday where work life is fun. You know that the person next to you is not playing politics with you, which so often happens in the corporate environment. The biggest satisfaction is that you are working for yourself and for a person like me who likes to take risks and explore life, entrepreneurship is a natural choice.

I along with friends have started a business venture in the field of handmade chocolates. The name of our organization is Chocolicious and our workshop is based in Delhi. There are three other friends with me in this venture whose profiles include a law student, a medical representative and a serial entrepreneur. Management education teaches me that this diverse combination of people would help create the medici effect :)

Each day we walk out into our work and personal world, we are faced with this choice: to play big with our lives - or to stay small.

Its a truly exciting world out there! Entrepreneurship rocks! Live your dreams :)

Jai Hind