8th May 2012
The `20 – 40 – 60 Strategy'
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
I was addressing a group of final year college students and I told them to remember the `20 – 40 – 60' strategy!
Around twenty years you finish your college education and you have to decide what to do next. I asked the students not to look for a job, but to decide their `career'. A job has a short term time frame. Career is a life's dream. We should be someone of great accomplishments by the time we are 40. This calls for a lot of specialization and focused hard work.
At forty, we have to consolidate our career's gain and decide what we should be at 60 years. We have to become a generalist once again having played the role of a specialist until 40. We should move away from technical skills to man management skill; from doing portfolio to strategic planning portfolio; from working to empowering others to work.
If we have done this effectively, we don't have to bother about the post 60 phase of our life. For many people, retirement is a nightmare, since they did not understand the above formula.
During the entire transition from the twenties to the sixties, your efforts should be focused on your natural talent which is God's gift to you!
N C Sridharan
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