Parminder Singh said while short-term courses from prestigious institutions like Harvard can enhance a CV, they do not equate to the intensive, selective experience of a full-time program.
I learned this during a recent Vipassana meditation retreat in Malaysia from some fellow Malay Indians. In a lighter vein, some of them insisted on calling me Parry Dada (the Bengali term for elder brother)," Ex-Google MD Parminder Singh wrote in his viral post.
Parminder Singh, who is currently chief commercial officer and chief digital officer at Mediacorp, was in the office cafeteria and spotted a large plate of what he thought were ‘kurkures’. He served himself a generous portion.
'The lesson has stayed with me ever since!' former Google and Twitter MD, Parminder Singh, wrote.