1. Seek out early career experiences at the grassroots level to truly understand how organizations work, even if it means embarrassment. Valuable lessons are learned from hands-on tasks outside one's field of study.
2. Do not desire responsibilities before truly deserving them through experience and knowledge. There will always be a gap between perceptions of what one deserves versus reality.
3. While it is important to play competitively to win, fairness and values should not be compromised to do so. The greatest leaders are driven by serving ideals larger than themselves.
1. The document provides career advice from an executive director at Tata Sons, emphasizing the importance of seeking grassroots experience early in one's career, deserving responsibilities before desiring them, and playing competitively with fairness and values.
2. Key pieces of advice include gaining experience in varied roles across organizations to truly understand different jobs, only taking on total control of projects after having thoroughly deserved it through knowledge and experience, and competing to win while maintaining sportsmanship and not compromising one's values.
3. Maintaining health, relationships, passion for one's work, humor, and focusing on moving in the right direction overall in life and career are also emphasized as important factors for success and
The document provides career advice from Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan in 6 points: 1) Seek grassroots experience early in your career, 2) Deserve responsibilities before desiring them, 3) Play to win but with fairness and values, 4) Enjoy whatever work you do by finding fulfillment in it, 5) Take care of your health especially when young, and 6) Direction is more important than goals or achievements in life and career. Maintaining good relationships can help navigate life's challenges.
This document contains a talk given by Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan at one of the IIMs where he shares lessons from his career experiences. Some of the key lessons include: seek out grassroots level experience to truly understand organizations; deserve responsibilities before desiring them; play to win but ensure fairness; enjoy whatever work you do; maintain your health; and that direction in life is more important than distance or achievements. The overarching message is for young people to work hard but with values, enjoy their careers, and find support from relationships.
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1. The document provides career advice from Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director of Tata Sons. It shares 6 key lessons: seek grassroots experience, deserve responsibilities before desiring them, play to win fairly, enjoy your work, maintain your health, and prioritize direction over distance in life.
2. It emphasizes the value of starting from entry-level positions to truly understand organizations. It also stresses balancing ambition with merit, competing ethically, finding fulfillment in one's work, safeguarding one's health, and focusing on relationships over achievements.
3. The conclusion expresses confidence in India's young people to realize its potential, and wishes them luck and God's guidance in their
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2. Viewing yourself as your own company and keeping your skills up to date and marketable over your career as job loyalty decreases.
3. Knowledge being "portable wealth" that cannot be taken away, so continuing to learn is important.
4. Inspiration, attitude and staying positive being important for success even in difficult economic times. Focusing on increasing value over cost when marketing yourself or your business.
1. The document provides career advice from an executive director at Tata Sons, emphasizing the importance of seeking grassroots experience early in one's career, deserving responsibilities before desiring them, and playing competitively with fairness and values.
2. Key pieces of advice include gaining experience in varied roles across organizations to truly understand different jobs, only taking on total control of projects after having thoroughly deserved it through knowledge and experience, and competing to win while maintaining sportsmanship and not compromising one's values.
3. Maintaining health, relationships, passion for one's work, humor, and focusing on moving in the right direction overall in life and career are also emphasized as important factors for success and
The document provides career advice from Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan in 6 points: 1) Seek grassroots experience early in your career, 2) Deserve responsibilities before desiring them, 3) Play to win but with fairness and values, 4) Enjoy whatever work you do by finding fulfillment in it, 5) Take care of your health especially when young, and 6) Direction is more important than goals or achievements in life and career. Maintaining good relationships can help navigate life's challenges.
This document contains a talk given by Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan at one of the IIMs where he shares lessons from his career experiences. Some of the key lessons include: seek out grassroots level experience to truly understand organizations; deserve responsibilities before desiring them; play to win but ensure fairness; enjoy whatever work you do; maintain your health; and that direction in life is more important than distance or achievements. The overarching message is for young people to work hard but with values, enjoy their careers, and find support from relationships.
The document outlines 30 recruiting strategies for a down economy, presented by Geoff Peterson from General Lead. It discusses utilizing layoffs at competitors, moving to niche job boards, and being visible online through social media, content marketing, video, podcasts, and more. The goal is to build talent databases, drive talent to careers sites, and automate sourcing efforts to find both active and passive job candidates.
1. The document provides career advice from Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director of Tata Sons. It shares 6 key lessons: seek grassroots experience, deserve responsibilities before desiring them, play to win fairly, enjoy your work, maintain your health, and prioritize direction over distance in life.
2. It emphasizes the value of starting from entry-level positions to truly understand organizations. It also stresses balancing ambition with merit, competing ethically, finding fulfillment in one's work, safeguarding one's health, and focusing on relationships over achievements.
3. The conclusion expresses confidence in India's young people to realize its potential, and wishes them luck and God's guidance in their
Ebook: 10 Tips to Grow Your Business in 2017 (Download)Graham Brown
10 Tips to Grow Your Business in 2017 by Graham Brown from Up.School. Tips, tricks and hacks to help you become a better lifestyle entrepreneur and grow your business. If you find this Ebook useful, don't forget to LIKE and DOWNLOAD.
This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Mastering the Recession" by Robert J. Sprague. It discusses key topics from the book including:
1. Controlling your own destiny regardless of economic conditions and defining success on your own terms.
2. Viewing yourself as your own company and keeping your skills up to date and marketable over your career as job loyalty decreases.
3. Knowledge being "portable wealth" that cannot be taken away, so continuing to learn is important.
4. Inspiration, attitude and staying positive being important for success even in difficult economic times. Focusing on increasing value over cost when marketing yourself or your business.
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- Creating a welcoming environment through details like clean restrooms and personal touches helps customers feel cared for.
- Developing relationships both internally and externally is emphasized through activities like having lunches with colleagues from other departments and sending flowers to those who have supported you.
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1. Managing Career & Expectations
(Talk at one of the IIMs)
by
Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan,
Executive Director -Tata Sons
2. There is a Thai saying that experience is a comb which Nature gives to man
after he is bald. As I grow bald, I would like to share my comb with you.
3. 1. Seek out grassroots level experience
I studied Physics and Engineering at University. A few months before
graduation, I appeared for an HLL interview for Computer Traineeship. When
asked whether I would consider Marketing instead of Computers, I responded
negatively : an engineer to visit grocery shops to sell Dalda or Lifebuoy?
Gosh, no way. After I joined the Company and a couple of comfortable weeks
in the swanky Head Office, I was given a train ticket to go to Nasik. Would
I please meet Mr. Kelkar to whom I would be attached for the next two
months? He would teach me to work as a salesman in his territory, which
included staying in Kopargaon and Pimpalgaon among other small towns. I was
most upset. In a town called Ozhar, I was moving around from shop to shop
with a bullock cart full of products and a salesman's folder in my hand.
Imagine my embarrassment when an IIT friend appeared in front of me in
Ozhar, believe it or not! And exclaimed, "Gopal, I thought you joined as a
Management Trainee in Computers". I could have died a thousand deaths.
After this leveling experience, I was less embarrassed to work as a
Dispatch Clerk in the Company Depot and an Invoice Clerk in the Accounts
Department. Several years later, I realised the value of such grassroots
level experience. It is fantastic. I would advise young people to seek out
nail-dirtying, collar-soiling, shoe-wearing tasks. That is how you learn
about organizations, about the true nature of work, and the dignity of the
many, many tasks that go into building great enterprises.
4. 2. Deserve before you desire
At one stage, I was appointed as the Brand Manager for Lifebuoy and Pears
soap, the company's most popular-priced and most premium soaps. And what
was a Brand Manager? "A mini-businessman, responsible for the production,
sales and profits of the brand, accountable for its long-term growth, etc.,
etc. I had read those statements, I believed them and here I was, at 27,"in
charge of everything". But very soon, I found I could not move a pin
without checking with my seniors. One evening, after turning the Facit
machine handle through various calculations, I sat in front of the
Marketing Director. I expressed my frustration and gently asked whether I
could not be given total charge. He smiled benignly and said, "The
perception and reality are both right. You will get total charge when you
know more about the brand than anyone else in this company about its
formulation, the raw materials, the production costs, the consumer's
perception, the distribution and so on. How long do you think that it will
take?" "Maybe, ten years", I replied, "and I don't expect to be the
Lifebuoy and Pears Brand Manager for so long"! And then suddenly, the
lesson was clear. I was desiring total control, long before I deserved it.
This happens to us all the time - in terms of responsibilities, in terms of
postings and promotions, it happens all the time that there is a gap
between our perception of what we deserve and the reality of what we get.
It helps to deserve before we desire.
5. 3. Play to win but win with fairness
Life is competitive and of course, you play to win. But think about the
balance. Will you do anything, to win? Perhaps not. Think deeply about how
and where you draw the line. Each person draws it differently, and in doing
so, it helps to think about values. Winning without values provides dubious
fulfillment. The leaders who have contributed the most are the ones with a
set of universal values! V Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King for
example. Napoleon inspired a ragged, mutinous and half-starved army to
fight and seize power. This brought him name and fame for twenty years. But
all the while, he was driven forward by a selfish and evil ambition, and
not in pursuit of a great ideal. He finally fell because of his selfish
ambition. I am fond of referring to the Pierre de Coubertin Fair Play
Trophy. It was instituted in 1964 by the founder of the modern Olympic
Games and here are two examples of winners. A Hungarian tennis player who
pleaded with the umpire to give his opponent some more time to recover from
a cramp. A British kayak team who were trailing the Danish kayak team. They
then stopped to help the Danish team whose boat was stuck. The Danes went
on to beat the British by one second in a three hour event! What wonderful
examples of sportsmanship! Play to Win, but with Fairness.
6. 4. Enjoy whatever you do
Sir Thomas Lipton is credited with the statement, "There is no greater fun
than hard work". You usually excel in fields, which you truly enjoy. Ask
any person what it is that interferes with his enjoyment of existence. He
will say, "The struggle for life". What he probably means is the struggle
for success. Unless a person has learnt what to do with success after
getting it, the very achievement of it must lead him to unhappiness.
Aristotle wrote, "Humans seek happiness as an end in itself, not as a means
to something else". But if you think about it, we should not work for
happiness. We should work as happy people. In organizational life, people
get busy doing something to be happy. The more you try to be happy, the
more unhappy you can get. Your work and career is all about you reaching
your full potential. Working at one's full potential, whether it is the
office boy or the Chairman, leads to enjoyment and fulfillment. A last
point about enjoyment. Keep a sense of humor about yourself. Too many
people are in danger of taking themselves far too seriously. As General Joe
Stilwell is reported to have said, "Keep smiling. The higher the monkey
climbs, the more you can see of his backside".
7. 5. Be Passionate about your health
Of course, as you get older, you would have a slight paunch, graying of
hair or loss of it and so on. But it is in the first 5 - 7 years after the
working career begins that the greatest neglect of youthful health occurs.
Sportsmen stop playing sports, non drinkers drink alcohol, light smokers
smoke more, active people sit on chairs, and starving inmates of hostels
eat rich food in good hotels and so on. These are the years to watch. Do
not, I repeat do not, convince yourself that you are too busy, or that you
do not have access to facilities, or worst of all, that you do this to
relieve the stresses of a professional career. A professional career is
indeed very stressful. There is only one person who can help you to cope
with the tension, avoid the doctor's scalpel, and to feel good each morning
- and that is yourself. God has given us as good a health as He has, a bit
like a credit balance in the bank. Grow it, maintain it, but do not allow
its value destruction. The penalty is very high in later years.
8. 6. Direction is more important than distance
Every golfer tries to drive the ball to a very long distance. In the
process, all sorts of mistakes occur because the game involves the masterly
co-ordination of several movements simultaneously. The golf coach always
advises that direction is more important than distance. So it is with life.
Despite one's best attempts, there will be ups and downs. It is
relationships and friendships that enable a person to navigate the choppy
waters that the ship of life will encounter. When I was young, there was a
memorable film by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart and Dona Reed, and
named IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. It is about a man who is about to commit
suicide because he thinks he is a failure. An angel is sent to rescue him.
The bottom line of the film is that "No Man is a Failure Who Has Friends".
9. Conclusion:
My generation will never be twenty again, but when you are older, you can
and should be different from my generation. Ours is a great and wonderful
country, and realizing her true potential in the global arena depends ever
so much on the quality and persistence of our young people.
Good luck in your journey, my young friends, and God be with you.