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Monday, April 22, 2013

What is success?


Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working for smaller setups and not the big giants.  It is my professional passion (and after few successes, is considered my professional expertise) to build regional operations of niche global IT companies. The revenues are relatively smaller but the value that these companies add are much bigger.

Once during a business interaction with a larger company’s international VP, he asked me about the revenue number that my team did for the company that I was representing then. When I shared the revenue number we achieved with a team of 3 people, he smirked,“This much revenue my one person does in a year.” My humble answer was “Good for you Sir. This much revenue my friend at Microsoft does in a week”. ( If that has any relevance)...

So, what is success?

For me, success is very personal, it is when you achieve what you define and decide.

YOU define your success; “your own personal success” and then go ahead and achieve it. You aren't competing against anyone; you give no one a right to comment on your goals and your achievements.

This brings us back to “R- realize” stage of Rock iT. This is the most important stage of the transformation journey. The stage when you realize what you are, where you are, what you want to be, where you want to be...

Success is not money, it is not a big piece of land, it is not a billion dollar company…

When you achieve what you decided to… that is success!!!