The Chosen One....

Young Business Leader

 e-lite

Noun

1. A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category, esp. because of their power, talent, or wealth.

Parents are ruthless taskmasters. They may take a precious breath or two to recognize your achievement but within the blink of an eye they’re back at it raising the bar higher for you. Throughout the awkward teenage phase of high school you are told to study hard and do well in the board exams. This they said would hold you in good stead and give you the luxury of relaxation. Some gullible souls took their parents’ word for it and did just that. But in the meantime their parents updated the list of minimum achievements expected from their child. Now it was all about doing well in those precious 2 years of classes XI and XII so that you get in to a good engineering college.

Student: Get in to a good engineering college. Check.

Parents: Don’t rest on your laurels now beta, all these years of effort will go to waste if you don’t work your socks off to do well these four years. That’s all you need in order to secure a good job. Then it’s your life, live it to the fullest!

Student (Works hard for the next 4 years. Inevitably gets placed in an IT firm) There you go. Now I can put my feet up and relax as the money flows in.

Parents: Good beta you’ve earned it. We’re proud of you. (One blink of the eye later) But if you give up now there won’t be much career growth. Perhaps you should consider going to a B-School. It’ll give you an edge.

Student: *SIGH* Fine I’m game.

Give or take a few points this is something several of us can relate to. So here we are years after our awkward teenage years still working hard so we can someday relax and savour the fruits of our labour. Most of us have the satisfaction of looking back to see trail of smoke we left behind us as we blazed our way to great graduation schools and great B-Schools. CAT, XAT, been there, done that. We’re now the cream of the crop. Sadly such is greed that merely being the cream of the crop doesn’t cut it for B-schoolers anymore. They now want to be among the elite. Young Business Leader (YBL) is a platform that pits the cream of the crop against each other.

YBL is a showcase showdown between 10 worthy managers in the making picked from some of the most eminent B-schools in the land. These contestants are put through 2 days of gruelling stress in the form of various events designed to test their capabilities to make world class managers.

10 managers to be with their backs to the wall.

1 elite shall rise.

While the rest shall crumble; Fall.

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