Aditya Sehgal on personal development, prioritisation, blitzscaling, learnings from China [#14]

Best in Class with Harish Narayanan

Aditya Sehgal is one of the clearest thinkers I have had the pleasure of talking to; he is ex-President of Reckitt Benkiser, worked across multiple countries in top leadership roles, and the best testament to his leadership was that multiple folks I spoke to called him “the best manager / leader they ever worked for”. He has deeply thought out frameworks for career growth, personal development, decision making et al, and has honed these frameworks over decades of personal experience. I learnt a lot from this conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Aditya’s blog is at www.adityasehgal.com. Detailed timestamps from the conversation are below.

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Timestamps:

• 01:02 Intro
• 02:50 Frameworks, career journey, and power of compounding.
• 08:04 Framework of being rich, ideas for his future, being a ‘door opener’ for others.
• 13:20 Personal development, managing time, prioritising family, creating new habits.
• 18:02 Developing teams, getting promoted, ‘gardening’ as a metaphor for building talent.
• 22:08 Finding purpose. “The journey is all we have”.
• 25:50 Blitzscaling. “Be fast. Be big. Be bold.”
• 37:18 Scaling in China. Experiments and learnings.
• 46:23 Learnings from the China market. Embracing the future. Hunting in packs. ‘Guanxi’.
• 52:22 Job satisfaction model.
• 55:10 Quick questions.

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