Comments on Creativity and Personal Mastery
Here, in their own words, are various reactions to CPM. Is there a bias here? Absolutely, there is. The students featured all got a great deal from the course and are active members of the CPM alumni community.
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 | This is the only course that distances – by orders of magnitude – Columbia from other top business schools…Transformed and improved every aspect of my life – I met my wife because of what I learned in the course, started my company because of ideas it opened up… I had extended lunches, conversations or other get-togethers with 25 fellow participants during the program. I expect to keep in touch with every one of them for a very long time…I defined with extraordinary clarity my purpose in life, my career path and my major goals…I created the mental models that have already started to propel me along a trajectory of extraordinary fulfillment and success… I am amazed at how powerful the networking technique taught in CPM is…was able to establish friendly relations with top professionals in the country, persons who are normally unreachable. |
Joshua Klenoff,
MBA 2003, Columbia Business School, CEO, GK Training |
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 | Extremely grateful to be a part of such an extraordinary class…will never be able to say “Thank You” enough times and in enough ways…CPM turned my life from one of regrets into a life full of possibilities…it wasn’t just a weekend of motivation but a very long lasting fix…the path CPM helped me self-discover over three years ago has even just recently resulted in….
* Doubling my businesses revenues even in a lousy economy
* Starting an amazing new business venture to work on my life long dreams
* Being asked to serve on a board of a major not-for-profit that involves one of my greatest passions
* Creating 30 new relationships over the last 6 months with leaders in two different fields
* Having my family tell me they have never been happier with our relationships
Even the worst economy in 80 years couldn’t get in the way of what I discovered from CPM and Srikumar Rao…I have never been happier. |
Howard E Kaplan,
Managing Director, MarketVenturePartners, LLC, MBA, Harvard Business School 1984 |
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 | I attribute 80% of my $120K MBA price tag to this one class…It changed my life in profound ways…Not many experiences have that power… Have a completely new outlook on life, happiness and self-worth…I am grateful that I have begun to rebuild my relationship with my mother as a consequence of the readings and teachings of this course…I will continue with the networking exercise forever…Am truly blessed and thankful for the cacophony of strange occurrences that led me to Columbia and to this course…Thank you from the bottom of my heart. |
Brandon Peele,
MBA 2004, Columbia Business School |
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 | CPM is my best “miracle” ever…it is the beginning of a new journey…retreat was the highlight… have attended many retreats since and each one was amazing and gave me a sense of ultimate freedom…CPM took over my life because of the exercises…immensely powerful and life-transforming…feel reborn into a world of possibility…much happier and grateful about life…looooooooooved every minute of it and still do…really grateful to the universe for giving me this wonderful miracle and the ability to experience it |
Anu Sundaram,
MBA, London Business School, 2008, Business Consultant, British Telecommunications |
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 | CPM is an experience I will always cherish…I knew it had the potential to be a life-changer and I made it so…the wonderful thing about it is you get out of it what you put in, guaranteed!... Revenues at CYBERCAFE (an Internet Cafe I own in Manhattan) improved dramatically, because my perspective about it transformed from "I take this for granted" to " I am extremely privileged to own this business."…CPM also prepared me psychologically for the deaths of both my father-in-law and father a year later, and helped me transform their combined estates into a multi million dollar real estate development business…On the family side, CPM reinforced the love and devotion I have for my wife and 2 children… making CPM part of my life has been a priceless investment |
Evan G. Galbraith,
MBA Columbia Business School 1995, President, Haber-Galbraith Developments |
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 | CPM didn’t just have a profound impact on my life, it created an internal revolution…Have a very short attention span but was completely spellbound and enthralled every minute of each day we met…retreat gave me a glimpse of a life of unconditional happiness…Do I have all the answers to my questions? Hell no…Am I on the path where those questions do not bother me any more? Absolutely…CPM helped me overcome fears, put them to rest or just kill them…Thank you Professor Rao, thank you all who made this possible, thank the oneness in all of us - in essence, THANK ONE. |
Sreedhar Reddy Kona,
MBA, Columbia Business School, 2005; GE Energy Financial Services |
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 | Had high hopes and expectations and CPM easily exceeded them…every component of the class had an impact on me and several truly stood out…retreat was an experience like no other and a permanent mental screensaver for me…so powerful to realize that all the stress and pressure I felt were brought on by myself…this is not the end but the beginning of a new life journey…people around me can tell that I’m different…don’t ever want to go back to my old way of life |
Amy Chou,
MBA, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 2009 |
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 | Taking CPM was the best choice I ever made…took on a leadership role that my MBA enabled me to apply for but CPM enabled me to do…not a day passes without my profitably applying some lesson I learned from CPM…children apparently suffer less from having parents work away from home than from parents who are not present when they are home…CPM is helping me provide that presence…feel as if I have only just started this journey |
Belinda Ioni Rasmussen,
Executive MBA London Business School 2007, Managing Director of Carlton Publishing Group |
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 | CPM had a monumental effect on my life…what a privilege to have taken this course and to continue to be able to live this way for the rest of my life…I now realize I have the power to shape life as I want it to be - completely on my terms, uniquely tailored to my purpose and goals…rarely feel stress any more and find each day full of laughter and fortuitous coincidences…gained clarity about my passion and started a new company with another CPM alum who is a dear friend…CPM changed my life…an enormous THANK YOU to Professor Rao for having the wisdom, vision and courage to teach this class |
Carol J. Morley,
CFA – Co-Founder, Defineum, LLC, 2007 |
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 | CPM alone was worth my entire MBA tuition. It was the singular most impactful personal development exercise I have ever had. I learnt techniques that I literally use every day in my professional and personal interactions. Normally I would have run away from the prospect of working in a country I have never been to, in a language I did not speak, for one of the most exclusive employers in the world in the worst recession of our lifetime – but thanks to CPM this is not only fine but also a dream come true.
My five closest friends in business school were all in the course and I have a network of deep friendships with alumni of the course all over the world. The course and the community helped me through very difficult personal life transition. I cannot overstate the impact of CPM on my life. |
Mariah Byrne,
MBA 2009 Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; President, 2008 Haas Student Body |
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 | Professor Rao, words cannot express my gratitude for what you have given me…your course ABSOLUTELY changed my life… I have been with my company (Marsh) nearly 8 years now and I'm certain that the longevity has to do with you and the course helping me SEE my work and my existence in a totally different perspective!...Just learning that there are many perspectives and I get to choose!!! So I chose the good one, the most beneficial one…this is a journey that goes on and on…I send much love |
Rose Puerto,
Vice President, Marsh USA Inc., 2006 |
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 | In some ways I started the class as a skeptic…often needed to rationalize the concepts…amazed at how much I have grown and expanded…completely successful in my goal of learning tools to be happy…exercises have been life-changing…I see the world completely differently…I will always have a type A personality but I think I have the secrets to being a happy type A…my whole body feels calm and at peace…I walk with a spring in my step…I appreciate my eccentricities and those of the world around me…this class has been perfect…thank you |
Chelsea Hamilton,
Boston Consulting Group, Columbia JD/MBA 2007 |
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