This document provides guidance and recommendations for MBA students on various topics like time management, career development, the financial crisis, and required reading and viewing materials. It recommends developing key skills like interpersonal skills, managing attitudes, and finding mentors. It discusses causes of the financial crisis like regulatory failures and unethical behavior. It emphasizes the importance of ethics, data analysis, and understanding risk. The document concludes by listing books, magazines, videos, podcasts and other resources that MBA students should consume to prepare for success.

1. The Post Crisis Manager
Rahul Deodhar

2. What is induction?

3. Things you need to know:
All your education was wrong.
You need something else to succeed.
You may get it at NMIMS if all of you work for it.3

4. MBA
Basics
Crisis
Third
Wave
Post
Crisis
MBAs
Must
Do for
MBAs

5. MBA Basics

6. B-School Myths

7. Raise you right hand!

8. Attitude matters

9. Pyramid Principle – Barbara Minto

10. Life is unfair. Get over it.

11. Inter-personal Skills

12. Sheep, Tiger and the Lions

13. Give Respect

14. WIIFM / WIIFH

15. Listen

16. Be genuine

17. Time Management

18. Time to goal vs. time sheets

19. Sweat Work vs. Think work

20. Power of Routine

21. Multi-tasking

22. Time Management - Randy Pausch

23. Career

24. Who do you want to be?

25. Finding your Element - Sir Ken

26. Get yourself a Mentor

27. Build a Network

28. You are the average of the five people you
spend the most time with. – Jim Rohn

29. Salary V Profile

30. It’s the Economy stupid!

31. The Crisis

32. Legs of the Crisis
4

33. Regulatory subversion1

34. Robo-signing

35. Teaser Interest rates

36. NINJA

37. Marked to Market

38. Theoretical Over-reach2

39. Hoodwink the probability of default

40. Real Estate Prices

41. Derivative Pricing

42. Insuring risks – AIG story

43. Broken Economic system3

44. QE vs. Inflation

45. Monetary vs. Fiscal stimulus

46. Growth and Jobs

47. Trickle-down economics

48. Illegal activities4

49. Overstating Income

50. Credit Card Frauds

51. Front running

52. Selling Junk

53. Lessons
6

54. Data, statistics, probability1

55. Data in Modern Research

56. Historical vs. future behavior

57. 1 in a million event

58. Understanding Risk2

59. WYSIWYG Vs Nelson

60. Unknown-unknowns & Black Swans

61. Margin of Safety

62. Regulation as constraint3

63. Upcoming regulatory backlash

64. Claw-backs and caps

65. Single window clearance

66. Theory in flux4

67. Modern Portfolio Theory

68. Closed system vs. Open system

69. Markets are self-correcting

70. Morals and Ethics5

71. Company’s moral compass vs. yours

72. Remoteness of damages

73. Proactive stance

74. Ownership V. Management6

75. Liability of Board Members

76. When in doubt - disclose

77. Do no evil

78. The Information Wave

79. Ubiquitous Connectivity

80. Portability

81. Big data

82. Spam threshold

83. Technology is a tool

84. Power of Video

85. The Post-Crisis Manager

86. Blatant Integrity

87. Ode to the Whistleblower

88. Iatrogenics

89. Cassandra

90. Love Adversity!

91. Fail fast, Fail often, Fail safe

92. Global Politics and Economics

93. Learn - Unlearn

94. Crowd Accelerated Innovations

95. How does success look like?

96. Make Art!

97. Must Do MBAs

98. Read! Yes, but what? how?

99. Mags? Books? Blogs?

100. Research Papers – JSTOR /SSRN

101. G+, Feedly, Twitter, Kindle

102. Interact – Email, G+, Hangout, Twitter

103. Use your smart phones - smartly

104. Must Read Books
• Personal Development
– Snapshots from Hell – Peter Robinson
– Man’s search for meaning – Victor Frankl
– Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
– Awaken the Giant Within – Anthony Robbins
– How to win Friends and Influence People
– Sir Ken Robinson – Find your Element
• Manager basics
– Straight From the Gut – Jack Welch
– Nuts – Kevin Freiberg
– Maverick – Ricardo Semler
– Goal – E. Goldratt
– Seth Godin - Lynchpin / Icarus Deception
– Charles Handy
– Peter Drucker – ALL Books
– The Lords of Strategy – Walter Kiechel
– Organisation Man – Whyte
– Porter - ALL
• Marketing Basics
– ZigZagler
– Seth Godin - Permission Marketing / Triiibes /
Blog
• Finance Basics
– Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
– Phillip Fisher
– Benjamin Graham
– The Shipping Man – Matt McCleery
• Financial Crisis
– Liars Poker – Micheal Lewis
– A Call for judgment – AmarBhide
– Too big to Fail – Andrew Ross Sorkin
– Econned – Yves Smith
– Faultlines – RaghuramRajan
– Subverting Capitalism and Democracy
• Global Crisis
– Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
– Superclass – David Rothkopf
• Changing World
– The Long Tail – Chris Andersen
– Understanding Firms
– Alvin Toffler
– Dan Pink

105. Must Read - Regularly
• HR / Job related
– Evil HR Lady
– Penelope Trunk
• Marketing
– Seth Godin
• Must Read Magazine
– Economist
– FT
– Mint
– Business Standard
• General Readings
– Tom Peters
– Fred Wilson (and Gotham Gal)
– Mckinsey Quarterly
– Knowledge@Wharton
– Project Syndicate
– Edge.org
• Shameless Plug
– rahuldeodhar.blogspot.com
– Understandingfirms.blogspot.com
• Finance
– Gillian Tett
– Martin Wolf
– Michael Pettis
– Paul Krugman
– Scott Sumner
• India
– SubirGokarn
– SonalVarma
– AbheekBarua
– TusharPoddar
– A.V. Rajwade
– Ajay Shah
– IlaPatnaik

106. Must Watch
• Randy Pausch
– The Last Lecture
– Time Management
• TV Shows / Videos
– Wealth Track
– Max Keiser
– The Daily show
– The Firm (India)
– Moneylife Foundation
• HBS video-cast (various topics)
• Bird and Fortune
– Financial Crisis
– Subprime Crisis
• TED Talks
– Hans Rosling
– YochaiBenkler
– Sir Ken Robinson
– Bill Stone – Moon
– Bill Gates on climate change
• Bill Moyers
• Seth Godin on Triiibes
• Documentaries
– Pots Pans and Other Solutions
– Micheal Moore – Capitalism the love story
– Smartest guys in the Room Enron Story
• Podcasts
– EconTalk
– Stanford on business
– Economists
– Bloomberg News
– FT
– Business Insider
– Zite
• Videos in general
– Jeremy Grantham
– Hugh Hendry
– Marissa Mayers
– Sheryl Sandberg

107. Questions?

108. Success comes to those who prepare for it!
It’s time to PREPARE!