How to be Successful With Your Career

byskmali

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Updated 9 years ago

how to plan for success in life

What do you mean by the word success? The word success used to denote that people may join and retire, but the organization shall continue to remain. People join at entry level and retire at senior level by virtue of their long meritorious service.

During this long service period they acquire vast knowledge and skills which is gained from the practice and experiences. Now the question is what is an experience? One scholar rightly said that sum total of all mistakes is called experience. One get knowledge not merely by reading books but by application of knowledge and this transforms into wisdom. It is essential to develop wisdom as mere knowledge is not sufficient in today’s competitive environment. The knowledge emulates to education and wisdom to qualification.

Therefore nowadays in western countries both are separated. They keep two separate tabs one for education and another for qualification. The wisdom develops ability to judge. The succession planning is to transfer this knowledge/skills/wisdom/ judgmental ability of senior people into his subordinate just like what Kyle and Carson doing at Wealthy Affiliate.

So that the valued treasure of learning given by the organization is not lost with the retiring fellows. It is not possible by only formal system of knowledge transfer but one has to have informal channels to establish value chain unique to the organization culture.

Imagine this situation yourself

As an Indian resident, I would like to have an example of human pyramid which is commonly known as Govinda in India. The aim of the person at the top is to reach to the Handi and for that he has to climb human layers. While forming human layers, the layers are formed in sitting position so as to ease person on the top to climb the layers.

However, only when all the layers stand on their own the top person is able to reach to the Handi (aim). What will happen when the between layers are weak and not able to stand? the person on the top shall not reach to the aim or he shall collapse. In order to reach to aim, it is necessary that down level should be strong enough to stand on their feet, and also to withstand the pressure.

You can imagine this situation with any business and also for your career. Unless the down level are strong enough, the top however the strong he is, shall never achieve the goal. Here the question is how to make these levels strong and the answer is by way of developing their capabilities. The capabilities are developed by knowledge transfer from superior to subordinate.

Today whose human capital base is strong those shall remain in competition. Hence it is moral obligation of the seniors to transfer their abilities to their subordinates and make them strong. It shall then continue to the last person in the organization hierarchy. All successful organization does this. The expert all over the world said that experience is good trainer; hence the work itself is sufficient to develop one’s abilities. The other training exposure is an added facilities provided by the organization.

Feel the perfection is a journey and not the destination

It is a two way process that the superior (owner) should take initiative to pass on and subordinate should take extra efforts to receive it at every moment. It depends on mutual trust. It is said that so mush knowledge is being distributed all over in the world that it is you to decide how to collect it. I feel the perfection is a journey and not the destination.

There is always scope for improvement and planning for success in life to add value to the system. However there has to be will to improve and to take the journey of excellence forward to the next level. In turn it will take any organization to the next level…of success!