Bitty Ruminations 96 – Work-life balance
- Trinity Auditorium
- Nov 1, 2023
- 1 min read
Madan wrote this about Narayana Murthy telling youngsters to work 70 hours a week:
“I have worked 70 hour weeks. In fact, in my first corporate assignment (with a multinational bank), I often worked 15 hours a day 6 days a week – i.e. 90 hour weeks. Happy, Mr Murthy? Well, you wouldn’t be so happy to learn I consider it my least enriching assignment (other than that it taught me to survive, well, long hours and intense pressure). The assignment was extremely repetitive and monotonous and the scope of my work extremely narrow. I didn’t take long to leave that job.
And then I read this:
‘No big achievement can come with work-life balance’: CRED’s Kunal Shah flags risk of Western concepts for India – BusinessToday
Kunal Shah, the founder of fintech firm CRED, believes that no big achievement can come from “work-life balance” and that India has imbibed the Western concepts of a ‘chill life’ before becoming a developed nation. “I am not saying it is not a choice you should not make – it is a personal choice. But as a country, we have to go a long way,” he said in a podcast hosted by Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal.
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