2. A LIST OF IRRITATING THINGS:
AKA TOPICS ABOUT WHICH EXPECT TO HEAR
MORE SOON
• Teamwork presented as self-evidently (a force) for good
• Impious worship at the Altar of Diversity
• Essays that convey nothing more than an applicant’s ambition
– and unfocused ambition at that!
3. SIMPLIFICATION BEYOND RECOGNITION:
DIVERSITY
• The fact of diversity has been attracting people from the
hinterlands to cosmopolitan centers for, well, as long as cities
have been attracting Citizens of the World (kosmo + polites)
4. MORALIST ADVICE:
RECEIVED WISDOM IS BANAL, ON THE
WHOLE
• If you’ve heard that you’re supposed to value diversity, here’s your chance to be a cliché
• There are plenty of reasons to value diversity – so, pray tell us,
• What, precisely, is yours?
• (MBA Moralist loves the awkward pause so often engendered by this question)
5. MORALIST ADVICE:
THIS IS A DOMAIN IN THE APPLICATION WHERE
THE READER IS INCLINED TO ASSUME YOU’RE
CYNICAL – NOT WISE
• Don’t give the reader a reason to reach that conclusion, for not surprisingly it rarely helps your case
• There are things to say affirmatively about why diversity can lead one to different decisions than
would otherwise be made in its absence
• But MBA Moralist doesn’t want to spoil things by telling you what these are quite yet…
• It’s these cynical interpretations that prompt the Moralist to opine on the dangers of impious
worship at the altar of diversity
6. A PRODUCTIVE LINE OF INQUIRY
• For your application, what matters more is this:
• How have you translated or distilled your exposure to diversity into wisdom?
• How have you made managerial decisions that are different as a result?
• Precisely the sort of explorations that you and any competent Admissions Consultant can help you with
