I feel very sad today! I was supposed to attend INSEAD Asia International Executive Programme from June 1st to June 12th, 2009 but I had to cancel at the last minute. The reason? No sickness, no financial distress but my CEO asked me to postpone my attendance to the programme because my presence is highly required @ work during those troubled economic times. Two weeks away from my company was too much! I am in charge of the construction of our new factory (35,000m2/ 350,000 sq feet) in Kunshan (Jiangsu Province, China).
INSEAD was not happy at all I cancelled; I received many phone calls from the school: "You don't know how hard it is to be accepted at our business school", "you have to pay 100% cancellation fee (12,000 Euros)", etc...
I was already very disappointed not to attend and, in addition, I get the blame from the business school.
It was already one of the toughest decisions I had to take in my life. On one side, my boss asked me to stay and on the other side my wife wanted I go no matter what. I forgot to mention, I already booked my airtickets and hotel @ INSEAD.
Finally, I decided to postpone my attendance at INSEAD and they agreed. So, I will go to INSEAD in November 09. I got the approval from my boss and from INSEAD but there are two downsides to it.
- In November, I will have two weeks. Normally, at that time, I go to visit my wife @ Duke Fuqua but not this year. I will have to wait Xmas. We plan to go to South America.
- My boss takes a lot of vacation while I stay to work. :-( I will not use all the vacations I am entitled too!
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