16th April 2010, being the last day of the week, I seriously wanted to make a blog entry. Having no clue what to write, I finally made up my mind to write about the day’s events, though I was not very satisfied with my decision. At around 5 pm, we being the new joinees of AVIVA RAC were asked to assemble in the discussion room. Sanjay Pal – A higher grade person from UK, was supposed to meet us all. I got comments that he speaks, sorry, communicates with people really well and gives chocolates whenever he meets the new joinees. Both the comments being very catchy, I made up my mind to go for the meeting, not knowing that it is going to leave a great impact in me.
We had assembled in the discussion room, and were waiting for him. After sometime he made his entry. He was talking to us all in a manner as though he had known us for a long time. Actually, I had not even seen him before but had been getting his “Thoughts for the day” mail. It is a daily deed of mine to read and archive it. I would have been right under his nose if he were standing. But, fortunately he sat on the other side of the table. His profile was indeed very impressive, just like his name. He had a soulful smile, acknowledging sight, and a very professional presence. He looked very young when compared to his age. There were a few other things that stood in my mind – Golden color TCS pen, blue TCS scribbling pad, light blue stripped formal shirt and 2 mobile phones – one was the oldest or outdated model of nokia, and another looked like black berry. We were around 20 people in the room and he took all the pains to make a note of everything, every person said. He was able to leave a comment on what each person said. I understood that, he did have a great, varied pool of knowledge.
As the meeting went on, he started talking about his life with TCS, the rating patterns, the bell curve, facing challenges etc. The topic then switched to attaining success. He mentioned two ways of attaining ones dreams – polishing one self and getting magnetized. He made a very different formula for success.
DREAMS + AMBITIONS + POSITIVE ATTITUDE = SUCCESS
He said, “We, the TCSers, work from heart and not from brain. That’s why we belong to the so called TATA family. There are so many people around you, who want you to succeed, who become happy seeing your success and are always ready to help you out if you are in trouble. TATA believes in grinding one’s mindset and building a new one from the scratch. It is just like the Phoenix rising from its own ashes. This grinding process is necessary because, everyone sets their best in a very reachable distance, when that’s not the truth. The more you take effort, the more you stretch yourself, the more it pains - the more you move towards success. If you run the race for yourself, you mostly lose it. When you run it for a team, you win and make your team also to win. How much ever bad a situation could be, your positive attitude will get the spirit for you to go through it.”
He gave action items for few of us and also made a note of it and said he was very serious about it. He asked some input from us, and said, he did learn from every input he got. This meeting was scheduled, as his flight to London had got cancelled. Indeed it was our sheer luck, to get in touch with such a wonderful motivating person.
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