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Career survival mantra...Self-serving leadership?

 Nathan SV is a cool guy...

I was listening to him in a podcast series that Gopal A Iyer runs
He recently said Deloitte a goodbye and then got approached by his friend Sreekanth K Arimanithaya to join hands in creating abundance for everyone around them. No wonder their venture (an HR Services firm) called Visara Partners was birthed.
What Nathan humbly acknowledges is that everyone (irrespective you are an XL grad or not or have been or not a Partner with Deloitte) has their own stories. Nathan is a storyteller and his videos from YouTube are replete with many such stories of his life, career and also of being President of the National HRD Network! You can enjoy them.
What I learnt in the talk from this podcast is here below-
1. Be patient! at ICI, his first job from campus was an Admin job, looking after canteen, transport and other staff/worker welfare at plant of ICI at Gomia, Jharkhand of today. For 8 long years, this XL grad had not seen promotions! After being patient for 8 long years of annual promotion cycle come and gone, he asked his boss; Am I so low in life that I have not seen a single promotion in 8 years (not verbatim) and next morning, just after the Lohri day, his boss called him at his residence, and he got his letter of his promotion to ascend to the Personnel Manager's role. Here he shared the bamboo's growth story that Chinese one, you have heard!
2. BTW, as a young lad, Nathan wanted to be an engineer! He also wanted to be a sprinter like his dad.
3. He shared beautiful insights from the Power of seeking Feedback and identifying your mentor, who, many a times, would be very unassuming people. One such mentor, he followed for decades deep into his career and even went to Dehradun to have a 5 hour of immersive talk with him. I believe, mentors' persona that Nathan shared is also someone, who's your Guru! Corporate Careers may not have Gharanas but they can always have their Ustaad ji.
4. How to navigate through Organization Politics? Great question asked by Gopal A Iyer.
Nathan responds: Find a way to stay away, find something away from that hotspot, find a new role, job inside other than this zone of fire!
In a partnership firm if one has stayed for 19 long years, there must be a way to work around this favorite sport called Office Politics! Also depends, if you were the perpetrator or a victim or just a bore a collateral damage! :)
5. When mid-life career transition or crisis was being discussed, I asked a question about the role of community or fraternity in salvaging one's career that may have derailed due to any reason and the guy has a stellar record otherwise. Is someone or some community owning their career revival like DEIB activists did for returning women and the larger LGBTIQA+ community?
We have many such folks, even from XL and other top institutions who had a derailment in between and they were treated like a "Pariah" and had no activism to lend him/her a hand to get back to the mainstream career!
Nathan SV.. It was a pleasure listening to you.
thanks Gopal A Iyer for organising it...
Spent 70 mins on this podcast chat. asked several questions and got not even acknowledged for being there and asking questions.. same with many others who joined the call and asked questions...
Pls check snapshots...
Love you Nathan❤️... You are a Godly guy... It is soothing listening to you. God bless you! 🙏🏻

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