Title: Inflection: Career Arcs from Evolving India
Author: Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta
Blurb:
Real careers are not perfect.
Professional success is not absolute.
People shape careers and then over time,
careers shape people.
Feb 1999. The batch of 1999 steps out from one of India’s leading business schools—Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata—into the real world of careers, not unlike many other professionals before and after.
Eighteen years later—in the middle of their working lives—32 of these professionals pause and take stock. They look back on their careers, on the choices they made, their successes and their failures, their highs and their lows. They reflect on what they assumed when they graduated from B-school and what the world has taught them since.
There are Real Lessons in Their Reflections; There are Common Themes in Their Career Arcs.
This is the story of real careers taking shape in the rapidly evolving post-liberalisation India of the last two decades. Of conventional careers and not-so-conventional careers and something in between. Of people who took the corporate path, who became entrepreneurs, who became academics, who went abroad, who became specialists and even those who let their careers go with the flow, unplanned. Step in as they take stock of their journeys.
As relevant for mid-career professionals, to peek over their shoulders at peers, as for those starting their professional careers, curious about the careers choices ahead and the road signs on the way.
My Views:
This book introduces you to the 'change is the only constant thing' in the corporate world. It asks you to be ready to learn, and to evolve, to keep growing in the corporate world. Without learning, your growth will stop one day or maybe you will be shoed away from the corporate world. Its demand is rapidly changing, and we cannot predict how it will turn out in the coming future. This book prepares you to be mentally prepared to face challenges, and be active and updated as to what is required to sustain in this fast-evolving world.
We, basically are cocooned to our domain and are unaware of how other domains are evolving and reshaping. Most of the examples are of B- school. More readers could relate to the content when he would have quoted examples of a generic field, not a specific one. Also, even in non-fiction books what makes the reader get most of the content is the stories. Quoting some tiny relevant stories does the work of cherry on the cake.
From the stories that our authors quoted you may find out ways to overcome the hardships, you are facing in your career. Your story might be a different one, but every story comes with a message, and you can definitely imply that learning in your life. I found the presence of monotonous content. Such content loosens my interest in the journey. However, when I move forward in expectation of getting something worthy, I was happy to find something worth my time.
It is not something that can turn you on completely but enlightens the path to career ride, and you may also get some information you may not aware of before. Many of us lose hope in different stages of our career. In this book, authors tried their best to cover stories that rose in the middle of crisis and hurdles, to keep you motivated in your career ride. You may get insights of how people shaped their career, from where they started and where they are now. Your dreams may turn on hearing their stories. How you take the stories is totally up to you.
There's a lot of talking and less of sensible talking. To me, sensible is something that could affect me or my daily routine or life in some way. To me, non-fiction is a gem in the time of mental crisis. To keep myself stable, I hook on to non- fiction books. This book had some effect, but not such lasting impacts that could turn me on completely. However, some pieces of information shared by the authors are really valuable, and of which I was not aware of before. And to that, I rate it 3.8.
Rating: 3.8
Reviewer: Shweta Kesari
Author: Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta
Blurb:
Real careers are not perfect.
Professional success is not absolute.
People shape careers and then over time,
careers shape people.
Feb 1999. The batch of 1999 steps out from one of India’s leading business schools—Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata—into the real world of careers, not unlike many other professionals before and after.
Eighteen years later—in the middle of their working lives—32 of these professionals pause and take stock. They look back on their careers, on the choices they made, their successes and their failures, their highs and their lows. They reflect on what they assumed when they graduated from B-school and what the world has taught them since.
There are Real Lessons in Their Reflections; There are Common Themes in Their Career Arcs.
This is the story of real careers taking shape in the rapidly evolving post-liberalisation India of the last two decades. Of conventional careers and not-so-conventional careers and something in between. Of people who took the corporate path, who became entrepreneurs, who became academics, who went abroad, who became specialists and even those who let their careers go with the flow, unplanned. Step in as they take stock of their journeys.
As relevant for mid-career professionals, to peek over their shoulders at peers, as for those starting their professional careers, curious about the careers choices ahead and the road signs on the way.
My Views:
This book introduces you to the 'change is the only constant thing' in the corporate world. It asks you to be ready to learn, and to evolve, to keep growing in the corporate world. Without learning, your growth will stop one day or maybe you will be shoed away from the corporate world. Its demand is rapidly changing, and we cannot predict how it will turn out in the coming future. This book prepares you to be mentally prepared to face challenges, and be active and updated as to what is required to sustain in this fast-evolving world.
We, basically are cocooned to our domain and are unaware of how other domains are evolving and reshaping. Most of the examples are of B- school. More readers could relate to the content when he would have quoted examples of a generic field, not a specific one. Also, even in non-fiction books what makes the reader get most of the content is the stories. Quoting some tiny relevant stories does the work of cherry on the cake.
From the stories that our authors quoted you may find out ways to overcome the hardships, you are facing in your career. Your story might be a different one, but every story comes with a message, and you can definitely imply that learning in your life. I found the presence of monotonous content. Such content loosens my interest in the journey. However, when I move forward in expectation of getting something worthy, I was happy to find something worth my time.
It is not something that can turn you on completely but enlightens the path to career ride, and you may also get some information you may not aware of before. Many of us lose hope in different stages of our career. In this book, authors tried their best to cover stories that rose in the middle of crisis and hurdles, to keep you motivated in your career ride. You may get insights of how people shaped their career, from where they started and where they are now. Your dreams may turn on hearing their stories. How you take the stories is totally up to you.
There's a lot of talking and less of sensible talking. To me, sensible is something that could affect me or my daily routine or life in some way. To me, non-fiction is a gem in the time of mental crisis. To keep myself stable, I hook on to non- fiction books. This book had some effect, but not such lasting impacts that could turn me on completely. However, some pieces of information shared by the authors are really valuable, and of which I was not aware of before. And to that, I rate it 3.8.
Rating: 3.8
Reviewer: Shweta Kesari
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