The Right Fit

We had just moved to Delhi from Hyderabad , after spending 10 years of my growing up years in hyd suddenly my birth city looked alien to me.I was really mad at my dad for moving in the middle of my 11th class session.I hated Delhi and the fact that i will not have my old school friends to fall back on.On my first day at school my dad came to drop me and guessing from the look on my face he said "Don't worry you will make new friends , all you need to do is to fit in and everything will fall in place"    

FIT IN yes and that's what i did in my school and guess what i did fit in with the rest.

We know that a man is a social animal and the life of community living compels us to compromise and FIT IN.

Fitting in has become a norm today , a newly wed wife tries to fit in with her family , a kid from village tries to fit in with his town friends and a prospective employee tries to fit in into the new job. But while doing so we forget who are we trying to please someone else and loose your own self in the bargain.

Most of the marketing professionals love challenges and that's one of the key reason they switch jobs frequently but we fail to recognize one thing that "Does the profile fit us or , we fit the profile"  

If the profile fits you then you are one of the few lucky ones who have got a dream job but most of us settle for the later and that leads to frustration.

So the next time you are looking for that change ask yourself does the profile / job excites you to make the next move without compromising. 

If yes then don't loose it as these chances come once in a lifetime but if no dont get into a deal where you loose yourself in the bargain.

Cheers,

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Entrepreneur Internship

April is typically associated with the month of TAX where we hardly get to see our real salary (not that its a great figure otherwise) yet i was looking forward to the month.
Aadhrit & Anuradha's school was off and a i had long weekend coming ,so we were planning for our long awaited break, It had been over 2 years since we had last gone on a holiday as something in my office or otherwise always forced us to change our plans. But this time around i had managed everything booked a heritage property in Ranikhet and my son had started the reverse countdown.

Just a week before our planned break i got an internal mail that we had a to prepare for a Big Pitch that was due in the middle of my break. So all of a sudden my vacation break had to take a BREAK.

Well this has become the story of every other person in the corporate world ,with the slowdown of 2008-09 companies have increasing looked to minimize cost and the easiest way was Multitasking. Aligning one person to multiple jobs where teams a made to function as a small business unit with its own business targets and profit center.

This has not just helped rationalize the manpower cost but also somewhat manage the aspirations of the growing senior team.Today there is a army of young professionals running their office as a start up, doubling up from a executive to a CEO from running after finance to overlooking HR practice ,even compromising their personal time to build something that's not there.

Indians today are ranked as the 7th most hardworking people in the world willing to compromise even their personal time.

So why are people compromising personal life for just a JOB... Well the answer is they are looking at these interventions as not a job but a learning opportunity through these small incubation centers.

Some time back there was time when kids from business family used to start with a corporate setup to learn to run a professional organization. but today the tides have turned, and today millions of youth of service class family are joining the workforce to understand the tricks of running a well oiled machinery called the corporate world.

Indians by large have always had a innovation led mindset but most us have suffered from the "Start up fear of unknown" where we would never venture into a unknown territory due to the risk of failing.

But today these multiple corporate houses are working as start up internship platforms where they are grooming young minds to think ,work and behave like an entrepreneur thereby converting their fear to confidence.

Indian corporate houses like Godrej , Mahindra , Tata , ABG are all giving platform for these new ideas.

But all the budding entrepreneurs need to keep in mind that these incubation centers can offer you training and skills but not the passion ,motivation and the product mix.
  
A budding entrepreneur always needs to keep his feet on the ground and hard work to build , evolve and run a successful start-up.


Cheers

aryanomics.blogspot.com