Question

Note : the answer should be computerized

Find a professional in your personal network. He/she might be a business leader, teacher, a mentor, or an entrepreneur you admire. addressing the following prompts:

What is the person or organization’s mission statement?

What are their main sources of revenue? What are their main costs of operation? (What does their work require of them? Think in terms of both time and money.)

Career arc. How did they get started? What steps did they take to grow? What were the decision points in their career?

Evaluate your present circumstances against each of these three terms. Where are you succeeding in each area? Where are you not succeeding?

Looking ahead, what are the areas you would like to work on in order to ensure that your life is balanced, productive and sustainable?

Answer 1

The person I would really like to admire is the manager with whom I was working in my company Accenture. He is the Leader whom I really respect and admire because of the Leadership capabilities he has and the guidance he give to the team members and always strive towards giving more opportunities for the people to grow. The mission statement of the person’s organization is “Helping our clients create their future”

The main source of revenue is consulting, technology and Operations.

The main cost of operations are as follow

1. Cost involved in using advanced technology related to work

2. Cost involved in paying the employee

3. Cost incurred as a part of the rent to be paid to the locations

4. Cost involved in IT enablement

5. Time spent on hiring the intellectual people to deliver quality service

6. Cost involved in sending people for trainings to be adaptive to current market

Accenture just started as a small company in USA and operated several years in the country and became successful with the quality of services to their clients. Once they are successful the management decided move ahead of the country and be global. To do this Accenture started opening branches in different countries and started working in other countries to gain better market capitalization and also they targeted the countries where the land and labour is cheap like India. The main focus of Accenture was to provide better service to the clients and ensure they are happy. At the same time they also stayed focussed on keeping the employees happy so that employees does not quit the company, get motivated and provide better quality service. Due to the better service the client base also started increasing and today stand as one of fortune 500 companies and Accenture is a 35 billion company which is a greatest achievements. All this happened due to quality service, good leadership management and continuous focus towards improvement.

The main decision points in their career are

1. Going local to Global which gave huge branding for the company

2. More focus on continuous improvement

3. Quality Leadership which went on motivating people

4. Cost effective Operations lead to good revenue

5. Using advanced technology gave benefit of better service

The present circumstances does not seems to be stable. It looks fine when it comes to revenue but when it comes to operations and growth little more effort is required. Growth has to be a significant part of the career and it should never be constant. To do that, operations which is being handled need to be more effective in terms of cost. The work what we are doing needs to be revisited and bring efficiency with the help of enhancement and reduce headcounts by bringing shortcut to complete the task and gain revenue for the company. If this happens clients will be happy and there will be room for clients to give more work which leads to company’s growth. This is where the succeeding path comes.

In order to make the life is balanced or create work life balance and be productive in what I am doing, there are few points to be noted,

1. Do your job diligently – do not procrastinate

2. Gain better knowledge in what you are doing which leads to complete the task faster

3. Ensure you strictly follow the work timings so that work and personal life can be managed equally

4. Take all you leaves and a long vacation frequently

5. Constantly focus on improvement in the one’s performance

6. Deliver exceptional client service which leads to success to your career and be motivated