No matter how excellent you are if you happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, your will be nobody. And of course with a little know how and know who, and being at the right time and the right place, you may end up somebody!
For instance, real example, Tun Hanif Omar, ex CPO of Malaysia. He was very young when he was appointed as CPO because the incumbent at that time was killed, he was made the CPO at a very young age (28 if i could remember it well)...because no one else more capable than him was identified....how lucky.
The recent son of a leader of a communist country was made the successor after his father died...how lucky he is at the age of 28, he was made the head of state. Our PM was also appointed as the youngest Chief Minister (was it 23?) when his father passed away long time ago. Well, not a very good example right? But the CPO case was truly the case of being in the right place at the right time.
The point is, somehow you need someone as your mentor or sponsor to promote you to higher authority especially if you want to be promoted fast. To be in the fast lane requires you to know where to go, and whom to click with. Tun Daim for instance, had a few mentees he personally developed, and now they are millionaires. But hope they'll not forget who they were before and contribute back to the nation.
In a lot of companies now, there's a special Unit namely Talent Management to manage the high flyers. The Unit is responsible to identify, manage, develop further or create more opportunity for the selected talent within a company to excel and to create better or accelerated path for them to grow. Nowadays, the system or process is getting better and better, and if you can perform well and has teh potential as a leader, you can get special treatment by your company. However, you need to be at the right place and at teh right time too to get in the system. You have to compete and to find someone who is passionate enough to take care of you as a mentor and develop you further as well as create you the opportunity to be selected as talent. And if yiu were selected, you also need to perform and get someone to assist you to performa and retain you as a talent. Life is great but it's not easy....
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