Time just flies… 3 months away from home and my 2.5 year old has undergone a breakthrough product innovation, from just talking he is now into full scale conversing. My town seemed all the same, but different, my wife is showing more affection and my ex-boss is getting interested in my career. Isn’t that a sea change??? And everyone I talked to kept reiterating that this one year at Pgpx is going to transform me!!!!

To be fair, there is a definite change in me, in that I am writing this blog, first one in my life. After having gone through 50 odd cases, I nowadays imagine I am actually changing the fate of big-daddies of the world such as P&G, 3M or Philips. That is not some grandiose statement at all…. I am now able to confidently think of myself as a VP or an SVP without getting intimidated by the task or the responsibility.

I am really starting to believe in my decisions and feel I am able to make others believe in me as well. While some would suggest that all it implies is that one is able to “do a consultant” much better, I rather look at this phenomenon from the perspective of “believing in what is coming out of my mouth now”. And about how the others believe me, I don’t really think their’s is a “whatever” choice rather I believe it is a “seems better than what is coming out of my mouth” choice.

Jokes aside, I saw the import of rhetoric and clear thinking in its full glory. Never before in my life have I so strongly promised to myself about working on honing my behavioral instincts. And all this while, through the Syndicate assignments, the interactive case based classes, the court martialling Profs etc., IIMA has been at work doing exactly this for me. So my submission, to those of you considering immersing in or already immersed deeply in the PGPX experience, is to believe in the pedagogy and the rigor as this experience will make us believe in ourselves and help us learn how to make others believe in us as well.

– Kiran Medicherla

The author is currently pursuing PGPX 1 year full time residential MBA program at IIMA