Warming up for the challenges that lie ahead of the MIT graduating students, Kullman stressed on the importance of heat, light and water. Her’s is a unique way of looking at these three elements which is otherwise ‘oh so usual!’ things. Each of these elements means a different entity, one that has paramount importance if obstacles are to be cleared in the pathway for better life.  

Heat is the inherent intensity that one generates to accomplish a certain goal. It is all about top performance and the urge to deliver the right goods. Kullman called up the students to not to be afraid of heat by recalling the challenge that was posed to her of building a new business segment. After spending two days with the team trying to come up with a plan to initiate and maintain the business, the plan was finally ready. Between 2002 and 2006, this business segment went on witness the largest margin growth compared to other businesses of the company.

The next in line is the light. In Kullman’s perspective, light is the open mind that is receptive to ideas and suggestions. One that believes, one cannot always be right. A mind that can assume different points of view, to approach things from different angles, this light gives the connectivity to several minds creating synergy.

At the end, along with heat and light follows the need for water. It is the need for time and the investment in oneself. Watering is the necessity for a thing to take deep roots and grow to greater heights. She congratulated the graduating class that they already have the final element i.e ‘water’ as they have learnt to manage time and invest in themselves working their way through the rigorous curriculum they pursued at the MIT. “I wish you well in all that lies ahead,” concludes Kullman.

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