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"I don't like the idea of planning the next twenty years of your life.” If you also don’t like the question, “where do you see yourself in the next five years,” listen to Anuj Malhotra, Senior Partner - EMEA Client Innovation Centers Leader, IBM Consulting. Who believes that we don't need to be rigid with our career plans, and it’s okay to play things by the ear! Career-switch doesn’t seem as scary now! Catch the full episode of "Teach Me Something with Nikhil Taneja" where Nikhil Taneja speaks to IBM India leaders on work tips you NEED to know! 🥰 #IBMSkillsBuild #IBM #IBMISA #IBMImpact

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I believe the current generation overthinks their life. I don't like the idea of people, you know, planning the next 20 years of their life early in the career. You can't run a marathon on day one. Hi, my name is Nikhil Taneja. Welcome back to season four of Teach Me Something with Nikhil Taneja. And today I'm with someone who I greatly admire and have I think become friendly with and become friends with over the last three years. We have with us Anuj Malhotra. What is the one thing that you do to stay committed to your personal growth and learning when you're already doing so much? I was born to an Air Force officers family, right? This is many, many years ago. So every four years my father would, you know, take all the bags and we would. Go from one air base to the next, right. And we did that for all our growing up life. And then when the day my father retired, I joined my job. And since then, again, every three to four years, I've changed our city, country and of course my roles. Basically I've just worked for two companies in my life, but I have, you know, changed roles along the way and lived in different parts of the world. I think, you know, staying curious and taking risks is kind of worked out for me. Every job that I've done across different, the two different companies I've worked for have taught me a lot more about, you know what what we need to do in the corporate world. If I stayed in one job, not taken rest, stayed in one country, I don't think I would have been the same person With young people today, what is it that they should just stay curious about because there's so many different directions that they can be taking in their lives? There's so much choice right now. How do you know? What is the thing to be curious about? I believe the current generation. Overthinks their life. And if you really ask me, I would just ask people to do it. I don't want, I don't like the idea of people, you know, planning the next 20 years of their life early in the career. It just doesn't work. I think if they have options, they should take it if they believe they will enjoy doing that and if it will give them new learning. And that's the mantra that I have followed and it's helped my cause. I wonder what is when you have to advise somebody about their personal growth and learning, your teammates, for example, especially younger colleagues, perhaps sometimes a lot of people. Try to give criticism or, you know, negative feedback which may not always be taken. Well, how do you go about helping people with their personal growth engine? I should give you an early life example. We had a fairly complex project, which is it was a management consulting project. So we did a strategy for them saying where should they go? What are their products today? Where, how should they change them, where should they take them? And I had a program manager in that project who did not work as closely as the core team that we were right. And we came out with this strategy 2 days. Before, we went to the managing director of that company to present, he said, look, look, I don't like this. We should change it this way, right? And the way he did that criticism was after not even knowing enough about what we had done. So I think you know one thing when I look at people, right positive feedback helps, criticism in private helps, but criticism with the positives helps them. So I just, I have a very strong feeling on saying, I mean remember this is 30 years plus ago and I still remember that incident. I think just I think how people build teams is by pointing to the strengths of teams, not criticizing in public and taking them and helping them build their careers. Knowing what these trends are that's the way I think it's it's it's best to give feedback and and and handle these things versus public criticisms and public directions to people. Actually it's you will be the group. When when I was with the group in the Sudan the we did not change the presentation we went to the managing director it was kind of a home run we were with the group right and we still went with the same slides in the same connects basically we did not change too much but I think it was it was it was I was with the group in the criticism happened you know I'm sure that. There's a lot of things that you could have done as a fresher that when you now look back, you wish you did differently. What would you, if you could go back in time? What would you tell your freshest self as something that you probably didn't know at that time? I would have told myself, just pace your earnings, right. I think there's a famous saying which says life is a marathon, not a Sprint, right? And you can run pretty hard, but you can't run a marathon on day one. I mean, you have to just pace yourself. You should be ready to get, you know, hurt along the way and rise up and do it again. So if if I remember my time. I came out of college, went into some management consulting assignments. They were fun. I loved the piece of work that I did then, right? But they were really stretches. I was 10/30/11 at night very often in office working on my management consulting projects basically and pushing my team to do the same basically. So I'm just when I look back I I just think, you know, I could paste things because you want, I mean like I've got 30 years of career. I think the first two years I don't even remember how much they added to the carrier. I just could have, I'm not saying take it easy, but I could have had my moments of lunches and dinners and dates and those times versus chasing a, you know, kind of saying, Oh my God, I've just come out of college and now you need to go conquer the world, right. I don't think that's how it works. So I would just, you know, anybody who's coming in fresh. I think just pace yourself, don't rush into trying to achieve the world. If you are looking to build skills, do not forget to IBM skills build. Platform. It's a free platform and there's tons and tons of learning out there made easy for you to absorb.

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