View: Millennials Are Turning CEOs Of Their Own Lives

The family is more similar to a corporation than we think

- Devdutt Pattanaik

How many of us convert corporate behaviour into self-help lessons? Considering that corporate behaviour is shaped by the knowledge and experience of many hundreds of management experts, surely it makes sense to use corporate principles as guidelines to build our life? For example, how many of us have a plan for 2030 for our lives? How many of us have sat down with our family members and asked, “Where do we want to be ten years from today?” How do we double the family income, or halve the family expense, buy a house, or car, or retirement home? How many of us have set up goals – get married, get children married, have a corpus for education, or a corpus that allows for early retirement? How many of us really do this? How many of us resent wealth managers who force us to think ahead? How many of us actually strategize our lives – have Garuda-drishti, or a bird’s eye view of what our vision of life is a decade from now? And how many of us think tactically? How many of us bother with