Good Read! What I have learnt is that if you have a point of view that is well thought through then people listen. I also feel that some of my liberal arts education helped in some ways – particularly with things like communication and perspective. Intel is largely gender agnostic. If there was any discomfort early on when I felt myself clearly out-numbered by the number of men, soon I got so used to it that I even stopped noticing it. I spent 21 of my 28 years in Intel in technology and manufacturing where the number of women tends to be fewer anyway. But I feel that it helped me develop the courage to think through what I want to say and to articulate it and to assume that people are going to listen if it made sense. I read this book called ‘True North’ by Bill George and he says that any long-term career can be broken down into three phases. The first phase is when you are preparing to lead; the second and longest phase is when you are leading and the third phase, he describes as, WHEN YOU ARE GIVING BACK. BEFORE I TOOK OVER THIS POSITION, I HAD ALREADY STARTED FEELING A DESIRE TO GIVE BACK. YOU START GIVING BACK BY COACHING AND MENTORING EMPLOYEES. I ALSO WANTED TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH I HAD BEEN BORN AND BROUGHT UP. WHEN THIS OPPORTUNITY CAME UP, MY HUSBAND AND I WERE A MONTH AWAY FROM BECOMING EMPTY NESTERS. I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, “IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN?” AND WE DECIDED TO GO FOR IT.(Awesome !!) My advice to all women who are asking themselves the question, “Should I work or take a break?” is, “Ask yourself why you are doing what you are doing. Whatever makes you feel good in that phase of your life is perhaps the right answer.” At some later point in life, if the answer to that question changes, then they could come back to work. Success has to be defined on one’s own terms; nobody else can define it for us. her.yourstory/kumud-srinivasan-1217
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:30:47 +0000
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