UNITED COLORS OF INSEAD

Liechtenstein is a country which has just 36000 citizens and one of them is my classmate at INSEAD and the story just starts here.

INSEAD is like a melting pot for the world and it seems like I have been presented with a permanent membership of the UNITED NATIONS. Where else I ask would you get a chance to chill/travel /go crazy/get drunk and learn from/with folks from Moldova, Uzbekistan , Nigeria , Chile , Bulgaria , Poland, Mexico , Romania in addition to the regular suspects from Germany , USA ,France , China and India.

The diversity that INSEAD boasts about is definitely not a marketing gimmick. Every single person in my batch atleast is a specimen which would be difficult to replicate. And it’s not just the nationalities where the diversity shows it’s also the backgrounds educational and professional.

In just ½ of the batch which started at the Singapore campus we have a British consultant who is also master chef and whose last degree was a PHD , an Italian banker who is also a choir master and a pianist, a Pilipino who is an award winning singer/songwriter, a Chilean who was a professional tennis player, an American yacht maker, a French commercial pilot ,a Swiss Doctor and an Australian lawyer . And this is just a random sample of 8 people I am sure normal distribution doesn’t apply to the batch.

Just imagine what one can learn from a pool of such extraordinary men and women. Everyone has something to learn from everyone and everyone is out here to learn. The possibilities are unlimited and there doesn’t seem to be a max limit to what one can learn. I am in the 2nd week of my intense INSEAD experience and it seems that I have been strapped on to a jet plane which aint stopping before a year. The good news is I have rock stars as my co-passengers and I know its goanna be the ride of my life.