Perhaps, every individual, whether an employee or an employer, enters the arena of business, industry, and commerce with no sight beyond a few years, but certainly not more than two to three years. Even this time span is not within the faculty of all to have clarity of the future. Those individuals who inherit family businesses are privileged with options on how they can chart their professional careers. This luxury is not available to professional employees. They have to prove themselves continually in order to keep progressing on the corporate ladder and ultimately in life too.

I shall devote the next few paragraphs to the community of professional employees who have to build and manage their careers with no external stimuli. Firstly, all such career-oriented persons must know that no angels will descend to guide them or provide a road map for career development and advancement. The responsibility to build a career lies with the individual. It is a foolhardy approach to live with the illusion that the institution will draw the framework for growth and development.

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Only a handful of entities that are fortunate to have “enlightened leadership” have specific and well-drawn-out plans for the promotion and growth of their employees. Some organisations have an accelerated growth policy for outstanding performers, while others offer a faster route to a specific segment of employees, such as homegrown management trainees. They are trained differently and are prepared for higher management roles through entity-wide rotation. This scribe was a beneficiary of such a........

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