The Long serving Loyals or the White Elephants? Deloitte India's Riddance Plan for 35 Partners
6 Key Questions: 5 too you and one to the manager/owner!
Arun Shourie in an interview advised: I you want to keep enjoying your work, change your job every 2 years and career, every 5 years.
May sound like a rollercoaster for many and that's precisely not a risk everyone likes to take, given the comfort of a settled life.
"Life set hai boss"!
Not just a workplace, even at the time of my MBA, a great friend of mine, Manish Srivastava (Topper of the MBA entrance test at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune) joked, "after joining this MBA program, like has become easy; Subah ko college aa jaoo, shaam ko ghar chale jaao! It's that easy!
While he joked, his anxious soul etched and sensitive folks could feel that pain and despair!
With due respects to such institutions and program directors, when do you get that feeling that, "Life Set Nahin Hai Boss!", it has just got "Stuck"!
Kamal has in fact asked this question, as you see.
On this anxiety feted folks like Manish, I have huge regards as they change the status quo, a term hated by ambitious, go getters, who can't be tied by easy salary and a cool life....
It was 2008, at ZS Pune, office, on the 25th yr. celebration eve, co founder Prabhakant Sinha (the "S" of ZS) was addressing a town hall I attended.
He told a story of his village conversation, when he returned from the US for a visit. One old family man asked Prabha; "America me log khush ba ki na ho" (In bhojpuri dialect; translated here: Are people in US happy, Prabha?)
Prabha answered, No, they are on a mission to change the world, society and the world we live in. They are very "anxious"!
The old man, with a smile and pride, said: Very glad to know this! Status Quoists need not be only at the Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University, Chicago, US, where Prabha taught. It is neither age or generation, gender, nor any such stereotype. It is a mindset.
Elon Musk fired 80% of twitter including the top deck in one go and Twitter now X only got stronger as a platform.
Perceptyx wrote a research paper, called Working Dead:
https://lnkd.in/gp73V-wz
An Indian IT Services major was under specter of corruption of estimated worth Rs.100 Cr as mainstream media widely reported, in their RMG (Resource management group). Initially firm denied any such report/event, but sooner fired 5 staff and 6 vendors in a hush hush manner. I checked folks in RMG there, only to find folks in charge there with a shabby grad degree, no photo on their LinkedIn profile, and spent 25 years at that firm.
Havig said that, you must reward your core team that built the firm. Reward like the Kissflow owner "Gifts five senior executives with ₹1 crore price tag car to celebrate long association with the firm!
https://lnkd.in/et_7_KqC
(...and they also laid off 50 staff this month....and that's cool too)
May sound like a rollercoaster for many and that's precisely not a risk everyone likes to take, given the comfort of a settled life.
"Life set hai boss"!
Not just a workplace, even at the time of my MBA, a great friend of mine, Manish Srivastava (Topper of the MBA entrance test at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune) joked, "after joining this MBA program, like has become easy; Subah ko college aa jaoo, shaam ko ghar chale jaao! It's that easy!
While he joked, his anxious soul etched and sensitive folks could feel that pain and despair!
With due respects to such institutions and program directors, when do you get that feeling that, "Life Set Nahin Hai Boss!", it has just got "Stuck"!
Kamal has in fact asked this question, as you see.
On this anxiety feted folks like Manish, I have huge regards as they change the status quo, a term hated by ambitious, go getters, who can't be tied by easy salary and a cool life....
It was 2008, at ZS Pune, office, on the 25th yr. celebration eve, co founder Prabhakant Sinha (the "S" of ZS) was addressing a town hall I attended.
He told a story of his village conversation, when he returned from the US for a visit. One old family man asked Prabha; "America me log khush ba ki na ho" (In bhojpuri dialect; translated here: Are people in US happy, Prabha?)
Prabha answered, No, they are on a mission to change the world, society and the world we live in. They are very "anxious"!
The old man, with a smile and pride, said: Very glad to know this! Status Quoists need not be only at the Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University, Chicago, US, where Prabha taught. It is neither age or generation, gender, nor any such stereotype. It is a mindset.
Elon Musk fired 80% of twitter including the top deck in one go and Twitter now X only got stronger as a platform.
Perceptyx wrote a research paper, called Working Dead:
https://lnkd.in/gp73V-wz
An Indian IT Services major was under specter of corruption of estimated worth Rs.100 Cr as mainstream media widely reported, in their RMG (Resource management group). Initially firm denied any such report/event, but sooner fired 5 staff and 6 vendors in a hush hush manner. I checked folks in RMG there, only to find folks in charge there with a shabby grad degree, no photo on their LinkedIn profile, and spent 25 years at that firm.
Havig said that, you must reward your core team that built the firm. Reward like the Kissflow owner "Gifts five senior executives with ₹1 crore price tag car to celebrate long association with the firm!
https://lnkd.in/et_7_KqC
(...and they also laid off 50 staff this month....and that's cool too)
Does service/tenure bring in a sense of entitlement? My take on the hashtag#workplacedynamics long tenures can create! https://lnkd.in/g6jfT5h7
1. Is it possible not to get attached or emotional based on our employment tenure?
2. Should we limit our tenures in every company (maybe not more than 5 years) so that we remain newbies everywhere we go, and we are always on our feet and don’t feel entitled at our current employers about our service to them?
3. Should organizations rotate role holders every 3 years so that they don’t feel dependent on certain people in those roles and new people can bring newness to the role?
4. Are you better off working for family-run companies that recognize service/loyalty/tenure? Or do they?
5. How many times have you felt you should have quit a long ago, and now it's too late to quit?
6. If you are in a leadership role, do you feel compelled to favour or recognize people because they have been with you for long or during your tough times?
When you stay with your employer for what you consider a longer tenure, is there a mutual benefit?
If so, why do we always sound like we did a favour by staying back?
Listen & let me know!
1. Is it possible not to get attached or emotional based on our employment tenure?
2. Should we limit our tenures in every company (maybe not more than 5 years) so that we remain newbies everywhere we go, and we are always on our feet and don’t feel entitled at our current employers about our service to them?
3. Should organizations rotate role holders every 3 years so that they don’t feel dependent on certain people in those roles and new people can bring newness to the role?
4. Are you better off working for family-run companies that recognize service/loyalty/tenure? Or do they?
5. How many times have you felt you should have quit a long ago, and now it's too late to quit?
6. If you are in a leadership role, do you feel compelled to favour or recognize people because they have been with you for long or during your tough times?
When you stay with your employer for what you consider a longer tenure, is there a mutual benefit?
If so, why do we always sound like we did a favour by staying back?
Listen & let me know!
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