My background

I hope that it may be of some help to fellow and future students for me to share my approach to studing at EBS. However, before I do that I would like to emphasise that I do not believe my approach will work for everyone since each student is different. I will share some key elements of my background that may help you to determine if you share much similarity with me and/or allow you to gauge whether you may need to take a different approach.

In summary, I believe I am very fortunate in that my background gave me an advantage over many in studing and in writing exams. Some areas which were of benefit include:

• My native language is English (even though I live in Austria) so I could understand the materials more easily and write the papers with less care of the language
• I have degrees from three other universities so I am somewhat familiar with academic studies.
• I have twenty-five years of industry experience in a variety of roles, including consulting engagements with many of the worlds largest corporations. So I have seen many of the principles in action.
• I have published five books. I would contend this is a stronger indication of persistence than of talent. The relevant point in this context is that it had forced me to articulate my thoughts very quickly in written form which is useful when it comes to writing exams.

I'm sure there are some students who are more fortunate than I was but there are surely also some who entered the programme at a considerable disadvantage. I applaud their effort and admire them for taking on the challenge.

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