Believe in Yourself

Hmmm.. strange!! I'm again getting into the habbit to writing blogs to tell out things that I see everyday.

I am in NY for 2 weeks now. Today, it was the Last Working day for one of the high profile guy in my client's office. (lets be professional and keep the name to myself)

He's been with the organisation for like 11 yrs and he left with a heavy heart (I think). Before he left, our team had a small meeting with him as he was the person directly meant business to my company.

He mentioned about his 11 yrs journey of building the system to wat it is now. Very proud I must say of what the system is now. He then talked about the architecture, the flexibity that it has to integrate with other systems, the robustness of the system to handle the volume of data that actually it recieves every day. He went on and on. It was nothin but delight to listen to him speak proudly of what he calls it as "Priemer Application in this Business".

He ended our meeting answering to a question that one of our team mates asked. He answered, it is the self belief and self confidence that drives a leader. The leader must believe in himself and his potential. Once he is confident, he must show it in his work to his followers. That is when his followers will believe him. It is then the actual work of the leader starts. He needs to show the path to his followers and EVENTUALLY TAKE THEM THERE. It is very important to prove his leadership qualities to TAKE PEOPLE ALONG THE PATH with the RIGHT DIRECTIONS.

He continued elaborating his experience; When a system fails, its a faliure of the architect, not the programmer. The programmer does his work in his given view; with a deignated input to a required output. The architect is the guy who sees the big picture.

Answering a question on Integration of systems, he said, big problems can be solved using small solutions. There is no meaning in giving a complex solution, which may lead to loss of business/customers. The emphasis is always that the current business is intact; the new system integrated should get in new business/customers; else placing the new system has no meaning.

Infact this is the 1st meeting I had with him. Only once that I have got to listen to his thoughts. I'm glad that I was present in this meeting!

Great Thoughts Sir!! "Wish you all the success in your new venture" is what all of us wished him whole heartedly.