Different work environments, and individual managerial styles from different managers, totally impact the experience of receiving feedback. The other determinant of the experience is how you are able to handle the very difficult experience of being told you’ve messed something up. Obviously there’s all sorts of levels and qualities of “feedback” from the innocuous “Attaboy! […]
Continue reading...Being a leader: Tending to language.
Being a leader is about working with people. It’s about being diplomatic, and bringing people together, and helping them grow and develop. The concept of servant leadership is, as you can guess from the term, about serving the people you are leading, by putting the teams’ needs first and helping the team be successful by […]
Continue reading...($) Kellogg essay 1: Leadership and creating value
Lots and lots of you are working through your Kellogg drafts to get them ready to submit. And lots and lots of you are struggling with these very difficult questions that Kellogg is asking! In case you missed our discussion of an essay on “meaningful leadership” recently, that’s available. We thought we’d spend a bit […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! Meaningful leadership experiences…
We’ve got this offer we make here on the blahg where an intrepid BSer can send along their draft (hopefully polished and well prepared!) and we’ll kick it around and see if it’s up to snuff in this competitive game called MBA admissions. Heck, it’s free! (Well, you have to pony up for membership to […]
Continue reading...Not sick? Wear a mask.
UPDATE 4/6/20: When this was first published a week ago, a) nobody was wearing masks, and b) the US government was advising that nobody should wear masks. Things change quickly these days. EssaySnark vows to continue doing what we can to provide actionable, current information on this situation when you need it, to help you […]
Continue reading...($) MIT Sloan MBA’s interview-invite essay on the “mission” and creating a welcoming environment
For anyone interviewing at MIT Sloan: Here’s some advice that we offered in response to a Round 1 BSer looking for input on their idea for essay topic for the “mission” prompt that MIT asks you to write about when they invite you to interview. Here’s the prompt that they give you: The mission of […]
Continue reading...Now that most apps are in: What to do with your life
A person we know who exemplifies leadership, who is engaged in constant change and personal improvement for themselves over time, sent us this recently, and it has so much wisdom. It’s from Peter Drucker, who was a management genius, which means he was a people genius. If you’ve not heard the name before, you will […]
Continue reading...($) Goldplating
This is a tricky thing to critique, because the type of MBA applicant who does this actually has a lot to offer. And by calling this out, it can make it seem like we’re critiquing the person, or saying that this applicant is not going to make it in to a top school. Not at […]
Continue reading...($) A map to writing Columbia essay 3: “a leader you admire”
No offense, Columbia, but this is a crappy essay question and we’re surprised that you are using it. But maybe the admissions committee knows something we don’t. Here’s what we do know: Most people’s essays about “a leader you admire” totally and completely suck. Or perhaps that was the whole point. Maybe Columbia is using […]
Continue reading...($) “What projects do I include on my resume for my MBA application?”
“EssaySnark! I’ve done so much stuff!” The worst thing in the world with an MBA app is a datadump instead of a resume. When BSers hear that their resume can be only one page long, there is often a) panic, b) resolve to include everything anyway. If you’re tweaking your font size down in an […]
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