Merry at work!

After a very long time, we had a meeting with SPR. ‘We’ meaning, my marketing team and me. All through my career (though only 26, I have worked in three organizations), I’ve had really enterprising bosses. KJ of Hathway, Surendar & AM from Dax Networks and now SPR in L&T. The meeting was all about our accomplishments in the FY 08-09 and plans for the new FY. I was extremely charged up to narrate my achievements and so was my boss to hear me.

After all of us completed our narration, SPR told us about what kept him busy for the past few weeks that he was unable pay attention to the activities of my team. He was busy bidding and meeting the client for a power project in Mumbai. The product requirements of the client did not completely match with VBG’s product portfolio and most people in the organisation had given up the hope of getting the entire order…. worth several corers.

“I was not involved in this project in the initiate stages and it was suddenly that it came to my desk” said SPR. When it came to his desk, things were not very favourable to the company. And since we did not have all the products, as per the client’s required, we had very less chances of getting the order. While other top managers in the organization wished to get the order for those products that were available with us, SPR was very keen on securing the complete package to make a huge profit and penetrate deeper into the power market. How could he do that? Well… he was very confident of sub-contracting the order for products that were not in our basket to another vendor and then supplying all of them together.

In a scenario where there were competitors who had the complete product range required by the client, SPR managed to convince the client about his idea of sourcing and supplying. “It all comes from taking ownership of every task you do and the passion with which to do that task”, he said. Yeah… I could understand his passion from the very manner in which he narrated this story of his meeting with the client. “I spoke to him non-stop for one hour and I had the conviction to convince him and I did it” he said with pride.

He always tells me ‘take ownership of what you do’ and I’ve realised and one can really do wonders, when you deeply feel from within that it belong to you. So have I, when I launched http://www.inflow-outflow.com/ on 20th February 2009.

I don’t really need a spa or some therapy/massage to rejuvenate my mind and soul, all I need is a little pep talk from SPR and more and more work on my plate and I get fully re-charged… well, I am a workaholic but only if I choose.