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Mr M. Sivaramakrishna, Deputy Executive Director and Director (Management Development), Centre for Good Governance, delivering the Business Line Club lecture in Hyderabad.

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Hyderabad, Oct. 16 “It is important to understand one’s core strengths to achieve the maximum growth in a career in a short time,” said Mr M. Sivaramakrishna, Deputy Executive Director and Director (Management Development), Centre for Good Governance.

In the present scenario where hard work alone is not the best virtue in the corporate world, identifying and seizing opportunities assume greater significant, he said addressing the students of Master’s Programme and Management at the Loyola Academy Degree and PG College.

As MBAs, you could perhaps think than you are best suited to promote and run businesses, but the fact is that very few successful companies in the country have been incubated by MBAs, Mr Sivaramakrishna, an alumnus of the IIM Ahmedabad told the students.

You have to cultivate a set of traits that stand you in good stead and identify your key strengths, he said.

Referring to career choice and identity, Mr Sivaramakrishna said students need to analyse and categorise themselves in terms of being achievement oriented or balanced; a thinker or a doer; a decision maker or a routine adviser; a risk taker or a conservative, among other things.

Another key aspect he brought up was to respect and follow value systems, while taking care of the body, mind and health, he said.

To drive home the point he gave an example of a set of alumni of IIM, who met after 25 years and found that there were broadly two types — one purely career and achievement driven and the other following affinity, family, principles etc. The latter lot were happier than the career driven lot, which in spite of being more successful and having lots of money, but were less cheerful and showed a higher rate of divorce.

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