Misnomer... 2

ISB has many facets, and a sorta culture to this place... Altho unlike many other Bschools we don't have any particular lingo, but some words are more famous than others... here are some for u...

1. Arbit CP: So you slept late in the nite or didnt sleep at all, and then realized that the 8 am class is havin a 40% CP component... You gotta CP and all you have is a faint idea of the case that your neighbour told you in 2 mins... So what do you do? Here are some tips for the beginners..
(a) Just talk your experience in the area... and start with "When I was workin in XYZ for their ABC division, we'd a similar issue...." and then you have a liberty to faff...
(b) Grab the opportunity when Prof goes off the case and starts asking opinions... This has the highest reward and so is risk, but darn..
(c) Just do it!!!

2. Faff: I am not sure how the word came into existence, maybe from fluff, but after sitting through just one strategy course, I totally understood the importance of faff for the entire mankind!! I hope now audience should be clear abt what faff is, and if not I'd recommend going through the works of Gary Hamel, CK Prahlad etc. With all due respect, they are gurus, and therefore, I am not saying that faff is bad or good. It just depends on you. ;-)

3. Take: So this can be anyone's take... generally though its Prof's take.. And its fun to ask this question, because (a) Amazing CP.. and (b) Amazing CP grades.. Though the que can be asked in many ways the most common form is "Excuse me sir, what is your take on this?"..

4. Takeaway: This is the cousin of Take ... And often the answer to the "take" que is a takeaway... and then there are better ones called "Key Takeaways" that I have heard are really important to getting placed.. :)

Coming up... "How NOT to get dunked on someone else's birthday"..