How to succeed in a corporate career? | Ft. R Gopalakrishnan | KwK #22

R Gopalakrishnan sir has studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a corporate leader for 53 years: 31 years in Unilever and 17 years in Tata. He has served as the Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as ED of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of companies like Akzo Nobel India, Castrol India, etc. He has authored 16 books till date.

Apologies as the trade-off question got trimmed so the question is: How do you balance the trade-off?

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00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - How did corporates perform during pandemic?
03:35 - Indian billionaires wealth increased by 35%
04:51 - Weightage given to financial metrics
09:45 - How to become a good mentee?
14:50 - How to build entrepreneurial mindset?
18:12 - Trade off between enjoyment and earnings
24:45 - Importance of plant roles
27:45 - His decision making process
31:15 - How to maintain graph of success?

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